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China's smog continues to wreak havoc - video
2013-01-31 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The haze which has consumed much of China for weeks continues to cause major disruption to civilians. A 40-car pile-up in the northern Tianjin Municipality caused major delays, with 100 more cars being abandoned on the highway. Air pollution, which has reached 'hazardous' levels, has also caused health concerns and airport delays
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China's coal conundrum as smog worsens
2013-01-31 04:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Locals in Datong call it the coal capital of China - and it is not hard to see why. Outside the city you can see enormous mining towers and buildings scarring the landscape. At one coal pit the bulldozers are hard at work. They push huge mounds of coal close to the waiting trucks. The air is filthy, blackened by the coal dust. This is a dirty, grimy business but in China it is crucial work. Coal has fuelled the country's economic boom, with consumption tripling in little over a decade. Currently,...
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China's Insatiable Demand For Timber Destroys Cambodia's Forests
2013-01-30 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Cambodia's forests are being destroyed at a dizzying pace, with much of the wood destined for China. Much of the logging is carried out illegally - and people who get in the way of the loggers face violence and in some cases death.
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China's coal use rivals rest of world combined - EIA report
2013-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
US News and World Report: Since 2000, China has accounted for more than 80 percent of the global increase in coal use, according to the EIA. China alone uses almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined, a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration noted Tuesday, and will likely dominate the coal market in 2013 thanks to the nation's increasingly ravenous demand for energy. That bodes well for America's coal industry, experts say, which has languished in recent years as environmental regulations...
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Volvo truck to pair with China's Dongfeng
2013-01-26 11:49:28| Automakers - Topix.net
Swedish truck maker AB Volvo says it will acquire a 45 percent stake in a new heavy-truck unit of China's Dongfeng Motor Group Co.
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