From the Navhind Times: India has no agreement with China on sharing waters of major rivers which originate there and flow into the country, but the two have signed an agreement on sharing water-flow related information, Water Resources Minister, Mr Priya Rajan Dasmunshi told the Lok Sabha today. Recently, China agreed to a controlled release […]
Read MoreFrom Greenpeace via Times Online: Just two weeks after Greenpeace exposed the illegal selling and planting of genetically engineered (GE) rice in Hubei province, a research paper published today in Science magazine describes what appear to be unregulated trials of the same GE rice (Shanyou 63) that Greenpeace researchers found being illegally sold in the […]
Read MoreFrom Environmental Media Services: Shareholders in the billion dollar China Light and Power (CLP) company were today confronted with the real cost of burning fossil fuels. Greenpeace activists and people from communities suffering the devastating impacts from coal fired power stations across Asia, disrupted CLP’s annual celebration of its dirty energy trade at the Hong […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua Online: Her campaign is quite simple: planting trees. Her achievement is so great: more than 30 million trees credited to the Green Belt Movement founded by her. Now, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize hopes to add another link to her environmental campaign: Olympics. The 2008 Beijing Olympics is […]
Read MoreFrom Ethical Corporation Magazine: The All China Environment Federation (ACEF) has been launched in Beijing amid concerns that China’s record-breaking economic growth is imposing a massive cost on the environment. The unprecedented backing for the new federation from high-level government officials has suggested that Beijing is becoming increasingly serious about environmental fall-out after a decade […]
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