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The Three Gorges Dam Project would have greatly ameliorated the damage done by the current Yangtze River flooding at the mid and lower reaches of the river if it were now in operation. The project,

Beijing's legislature has recently adopted a regulation on protecting its ancient trees which are suffering the urban expansion programs. It is the first time for Beijing, to issue legal ordinance to

Heavy flooding along China's Yangtze, Nenjiang and Songhua rivers have been caused, at least in part, by the continuing degeneration of wetlands resulting from reclamation. The assertion was made by

China's air quality in cities has become better over the past week and most cities enjoyed good air quality, according to the China Environmental Monitoring Center. The center's latest air-quality

China's State Environmental Protection Administration said that China will try to stop the ecological deterioration in major river and lakes as soon as possible. The director of the administration's

Less than one year after the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched TeleFood, a global public awareness television event that raised more than $2 million to help small farmers, 136 small

A meet of the NGOs and tribal associations have demanded that people's participation should be the thrust of the proposed Tamil Nadu Government Forest policy instead of the Forest Department. This

Government workers and local residents fought to strengthen the Bangladeshi capital's dam on Tuesday, and officials said all of Dhaka was in danger of being swamped by the Sitalakhoia river. More

By the time Sweden votes in a September 20 general election, a programme to phase out nuclear power by 2010 was supposed to be underway. About 20 km from the Danish capital Copenhagen, across the

An enormous black hole has been discovered at the centre of our galaxy, one that could shed light on how galaxies form, according to findings presented on Monday at a scientific conference. Proof of