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China may extend a nationwide census for wild giant pandas that was scheduled to be completed by the end of 2013, as an earthquake disturbed one of the major habitats last month.Yan Xun, a chief ...
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The education and culture and economic affairs commissions of Taiwan's legislature on May 20 completed the first review of a draft bill to fully abolish nuclear power in the country by 2025.The first ...
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Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming on Thursday for the second time this month, protesting against plans to build a refinery in the city which ...
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A two-and-a-half month fishing ban will begin at noon Thursday in most parts of the South China Sea as part of efforts to rehabilitate marine resources, according to fishery authorities. The Hainan ...
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New data reveal that the temperature has risen 10 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit (6 to 8° Celsius) in the last 20,000 years in central China, with the increase two to four times greater than what many ...
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China's Ministry of Environmental Protection will not issue data related to soil pollution for the time being but will discuss the situation after an in-depth investigation, the ministry confirmed on ...
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A lack of safe drinking water continues to be a major problem in China's rural areas, with nearly 76% of the rural population estimated to be using polluted groundwater as their main source of ...
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Experts were divided Thursday on the costs of power generation using nuclear energy and the economic impact of aborting construction of Taiwan's controversial fourth nuclear power plant.It costs less ...
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The Formosan clouded leopard, a subspecies endemic to Taiwan, is now extinct, according to a team of zoologists from Taiwan and the United States that had been trying for 13 years to find the animal....
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Beijing is speeding up the construction of garbage treatment facilities, hoping to bring the city's daily household waste handling capacity to 24,000 tonnes by the end of 2015.In the meantime, ...