Stories: Environment
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China’s Hobson’s Choice
Dianchi Lake, in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming, used to be one of the Middle Kingdom’s worst environmental disaster zones. Years of industrialization and high-intensity ...
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Worldview: A green movement grows in rural China
Gao Hai, a former Shanghai disc jockey who returned to Anlong village to grow - and cook - organic produce. (photo: Trudy Rubin) ANLONG, China - ...
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Peru’s Mineral Wealth and Woes
Introduction LIMA, PERU -- The commodities boom of the last decade fueled growth, but it also poses social and environmental problems. Peru is emblematic of the economic promise ...
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The Carbon Conundrum
Sean Carberry travels to Peru to explore efforts to prevent deforestation, the second leading contributor to carbon dioxide emissions, and the competing economic incentives for ...
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Kurt Holle’s ecolodge employs locals while slowing the devastation of the Amazon
Kurt Holle opened the Posada Amazonas ecolodge in 1996 and will turn over all operations to locals in 2016. photo: Matthew Clark/The Christian ...
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Peru farmers drop cocaine in favor of cocoa
Pinto Recodo, Peru — Deep in a valley where Peru's snow-capped Andes melt into Amazon jungle, Wilder Diaz Angulo cuts open a football-sized cocoa pod and separates precious brown ...
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Environment: In Peru’s Amazon, finding gold but leaving mercury
Puerto Maldonado, Peru - On a sweltering day in Peru’s Amazon, Riquelme loads a bag of rocks onto his back, sticks a plastic hose in his mouth, and steps off the back of a ...
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Environmental Refugees Unable to Return Home
DHAKA, BANGLADESH — Mahe Noor left her village in southern Bangladesh after Cyclone Sidr flattened her family’s home and small market in 2007. Jobless and homeless, she and her ...
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Fighting for an African forest
Click here to return to table of contents... GISHWATI AREA CONSERVATION PROJECT Kinihira, Rwanda — Near this east-central African village, an impassioned collection of ...
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President Kagame is committed to environment
Click here to return to table of contents... The man driving Rwanda's new environmentally friendly economy studied military intelligence in the United States and Cuba, ...
