Topic: Nature and the Environment
Antarctica Whaling
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WhatÕs next for Yucca? Restoration
Las Vegas Sun
When it was on the drawing boards, the Yucca Mountain radioactive waste dump promised unprecedented challenges to nuclear engineers and physicists: How to safely store nuclear waste underground? Now with the project being killed by President Barack Obama, the site will offer unprecedented challenges to desert ecologists: How to bring ...
China releases first national pollution census
AP News
China releases first national pollution census, major step in environmental reformsChina has revealed its most ambitious measure of what explosive development has done to its environment, saying Tuesday its first national pollution census has mapped nearly 6 million sources of industrial, residential and agricultural waste. The world's largest polluter ...
China says water pollution double official figure
Reuters Environmental Online Report
BEIJING (Reuters) - A new Chinese government survey of the country's environmental problems has shown water pollution levels in 2007 were more than twice the government's official estimate, largely because agricultural waste was ignored. The data, presented by Vice Environment Protection Minister Zhang Lijun, revives persistent questions about the ...
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