The first tunnel under the Yangtze River is now open to traffic in central China, under a three month trial. The tunnel is 3.6 km long and is part of an effort to not only relieve traffic congestion, but also to...
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How do scientists know when to classify a species as extinct? Animals such as the Yangtze River Dolphin, the Christmas Island Shrew and the Venezuelan Skunk Frog are all extinct, or close to the brink of...
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The Chinese government are again stepping in to protect the Yangtze River Dolphins from extinction. They are now going to connect existing reserves of the Baiji dolphin, the most endangered member of the whale...
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About half of China has been hit by torrential rains - killing one person, injuring four and affecting nearly 400,000 people. Experts said the rainfall in several cities exceeded 100 millimetres, while Macheng...
OK, so they aren't really Pokemon, but damned if they don't look like them. "HONG KONG: Superstitious bloggers have linked China's earthquake disaster and other recent misfortunes to the five Olympic...
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Up the Yangtze, a new documentary about the impact of the Three Gorges Dam project in China by Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang, opens in New York City at the IFC Center tomorrow. The film has won numerous awards...
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I recently reported (here's the article) that the " "The Baiji Yangtze Dolphin is with all probability extinct," reads a press release". However, a businessman in China filmed what appeared to be a "big...
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"Scientists declared the white dolphin, native to China's Yangtze river, extinct last year. But there is a shred of hope: the animal may have been spotted swimming in the wild.
Wang Ding, a researcher with the Institute of Hydrobiology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences,...
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"The Baiji Yangtze Dolphin is with all probability extinct," reads a press release from the baiji.org foundation, a group dedicated to the study and protection of this rare fresh water dolphin.The foundation...
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"For the past two weeks residents living around China's second largest lake have been able to smell a rat—make that two billion rats.
When the Yangtze River flooded on June 23, the water level rose in Dongting Lake, which sits along the river south of Wuhan in...
"The kidneys fail first. Then the central nervous system begins to misfire. Paralysis spreads, making breathing difficult, then often impossible without assistance. In the end, most victims die.
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WWF lists 10 most endangered rivers globally
Five are in Asia, but list includes Rio Grande and Danube
Hoping to raise awareness about the state of the world's great rivers, the World Wide Fund for Nature on Tuesday released a report on what it called the 10 most endangered...
The following article is a chilling reminder of the potential effects of global climate change. The Tibetan Plateau, often thought of as a beautiful place, but not one of global economic significance, actually has a huge potential impact on the global economy as its glaciers...
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