世界最大淡水湖乍得湖或将消失 Lake Chad, which is bordered by four African nations: Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Chad, was once one of the world's largest. But a combination of climate change, drought and bad use of resources, have shrun

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Xinjiang Production and Construction Corporation in northwest China combines the duties of carrying out agriculture and forestry work and safeguarding stability. Over the past five years, it has planted 150 thousand hectares of forest and turned 470

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 07 February 2006 The drought ravaging the East Africa area is having a severe impact on millions of people. Experts note a steady decrease in rainfall amounts, over the past

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 05 October 2007 The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, says Iraqis fleeing violence and persecution are finding fewer avenues of escape and he is appealing to countries to keep borders open to Iraqi asylum s

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By Scott Stearns White House 07 January 2006 President Bush President Bush says the U.S. economy is strong entering 2006, despite slower-than-expected job growth. -------------------------------------

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American writer W.S. Merwin has been named by the Librarian of Congress as the nation's 17th Poet Laureate. The honor tops Merwin's long list of achievements, which includes over 50 volumes of poetry, prose, criticism and translation, two Pulitzer Pr

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By Zulima Palacio Washibgton, D.C. 19 April 2007 Watch Chesapeake Bay report The Chesapeake Bay has the longest coastline in the eastern United States -- nearly 19,000 kilometers long, stretching through and bordering six states. Thousands of rivers

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 27 December 2006 Only days away from the end of the United Nations' Year of Deserts and Desertification, four experts discuss the challenges of translating a decade's worth of research about the degradation of land in arid areas

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Political opponents of Mauritania's military government say they will demonstrate against plans for new elections in June. The military says it will not allow unauthorized protests. Mauritania's military ruler Gen. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (File) Now

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Climate Change Blamed for Dying African Trees A lot of trees are dying in Africas Sahel region and new study says climate change caused by humans is to blame. Whats more, many tree species are also disappearing. The study appears in the Journal of Ar

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Amnesty International interim Secretary-General Claudio Cordone holds copy of 2010 Human Rights report There is still no scarcity of poverty and human degradation around the world. But Amnesty International says in its latest annual human rights repo

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Globes showing environmental challenges are lining the National Mall for Earth Day activities. Week-long activities to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day in the United States have kicked off with an eco-village on the National Mall and gre

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Ecology is becoming more and more a question of economy: how much would it cost to reduce emissions; how much would we save by weatherproofing buildings. But analysts meeting in Bali for a summit on the environment say that, to save the planet, human

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Trees Stand Tall Against Climate Change The next U.N. Climate Change Conference gets underway November 26 in Doha, Qatar. Once again, negotiators will try to reach a broad agreement on dealing with rising global temperatures. Deforestation is expecte

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For generations, rich Colombian mountains have produced a variety of food crops, beans, cassava and notably coffee. But local coffee farmers say the weather is changing, and so are crop yields. Carmen Eneida Trujillo is worried. Look, there are not t

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UN Report Links Infectious Disease Outbreak in Congo to Environment 联合国报道称刚果流行病毒爆发与环境有关 A United Nations' environment official Monday said the recent outbreak of

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 27 November 2007 The United States is urging the International Red Cross Movement to adopt, what it calls, a more balanced approach in dealing with the consequences of climate change. More than 1,500 representatives attending t

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Over a Billion Tons of Food Wasted Annually 每年的食品浪费超过十亿吨 A new study says one-point-three billion tons of food are wasted or lost every year, causing significant harm to both the environment and the economy. The food losses oc

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A government-appointed committee charged with recommending ways to end attacks on oil installations in Nigeria is due to meet this week with top commanders of the main militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta. The group h

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By Luke Hunt Bangkok 05 November 2009 FAO says most countries in Europe and North America have reversed centuries of deforestation As international attention shifts to Copenhagen and the coming United Nations conference on climate change, reforestat

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