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Beijing Turns Green Before the Olympics (Jul 3)

Pollution in China is a concern for Olympians (Jul 3)
July 2, 2008 - 8:04PM BY BRIAN GOMEZ THE GAZETTE

Foreign governments help China map out plans for climate change (Jul 1)
BEIJING, June 30 (Xinhua) -- A joint initiative by foreign governments and international agencies was launched here on Monday to assist China's ecologically fragile provinces to map out plans to cope with the climate change. The "Provincial Programs for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in China" are a joint initiative of the Chinese and foreign governments and international agencies,

Wen Bo: Environmentalism growing in China (Jun 30)

Where Poor Is A Poor Excuse (Jun 29)
Beijing's brass lags behind leaders of nations with similar incomes. Melinda Liu and Jonathan Ansfield NEWSWEEK Updated: 12:03 PM ET Jun 28, 2008 China ranks 113th among all countries, with poor scores in air pollution and other ills of industrialization. Ask Chinese officials why their nation's environment is so toxic

David Harrison on China: victims of the boom (Jun 29)
Telegraph.co.uk Last Updated: 12:01am BST 29/06/2008

Scandal of the cancer villages lurks behind China's 'green' makeover (Jun 23)
Activists have been gagged and lawsuits buried until after the Olympics

Wind Energy Takes off in China (Jun 17)
Businessweek.com The wind is free and almost limitless in this huge, coal-dependent country, but harnessing its power for energy is more expensive When glimpsed from afar, the huge wind turbines look impossibly silent. Eleven machines, with 34-meter-long rotor blades, have been erected on the fringe of a large recreational park in Shanghai’s Nanhui district, about 34 kilometers from the

China Reports Some Progress on Pollution (Jun 6)
Agence France-Presse — Getty Image Chao Lake, above, in Anhui Province, has an algae bloom linked to pollution. In Jiangsu Province, China raised penalties for fouling Lake Tai after an outbreak. By KEITH BRADSHER HONG KONG — After rising steeply for many years, emissions of three important pollutants began to decline last year, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection

China’s Emerging Environmental Movement (Jun 4)
Quietly and somewhat surprisingly, green groups are cropping up throughout China and are starting to have an impact. In the first in a series on Chinese environmentalists, journalist Christina Larson visits with Zhao Zhong, who is leading the fight to save the Yellow River. by christina larson The northern route of the old Silk Road winds through a golden desert region of western China once