Mar 08
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Since 2000,
China has reportedly purchased 141
rare white rhinos from South Africa--an amount that has drawn the suspicion from conservationists that the animals aren't being used for friendly purposes. Instead, it is believed that the rhinos are being farmed on wildlife reserves for the sole purpose of
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Feb 12
photo: Simply Lori Ann
Brian recently told us about how
China's water pollution problems are probably twice as bad as official government statistics show. Part of that is due to agricultural run-off from excessive fertilizer use. But water isn't the only thing being polluted by too much fertilizer.
Mongabay highlights a new article in
Science which d...
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Feb 11
photo: Joe via flickr.
With all the recent brouhaha over inaccurate and since retracted statements in the 2007 IPCC climate change report about the speed with which
Himalayan glaciers are melting, a recent series of posts over at
China Dialogue is particularly poignant. In it Professor Kenneth Hewitt, research associate at the
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