Category: Asia

Beijing’s smog is back year after Olympics

Amid fears the city's chronic smog could damage athlete's health, Beijing took drastic steps to prevent that last August,

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Krakatoa getting ready to blow

One of the most terrifying volcanoes the world has ever known has begun to stir once more. Last time, it

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Hundreds sickened by China chemical plant

More than 500 people have been sickened by pollution from a chemical plant in central China that has also

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At risk from rising seas, Tuvalu seeks clean power

Pacific island state of Tuvalu set a goal Sunday of a 100 percent shift to renewable energy by 2020,

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Coal fires up India farmers against power plants

Rajni Ramakan Patil has a message for the energy companies that want to build coal-based power stations on the

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Man dies from black plague in China, 11 others infected

BEIJING -- Thousands of people have been placed under quarantine in a town in northwest China after a man

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WHO watching China plague cases ‘closely’

Video: A town in far western Qinghai province of China has been sealed off after pneumonic plague killed three

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Climate change: ‘Feedback’ triggers could amplify peril

PARIS (AFP) – New studies have warned of triggers in the natural environment, including a greenhouse-gas timebomb in Siberia

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Taiwan coral reefs “turn black” with disease

Coral reefs off the southeast coast of Taiwan have turned black with disease possibly due to sewage discharge, threatening

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China presses for US help on climate change

WASHINGTON (AFP) – China wants US help rather than complaints on climate change, and could be finding a receptive

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