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China Drought

By | Published: October 27, 2009
China’s People Daily — More than 900 cargo ships have been held up at a section of a river in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region due to low water level amid continuous drought, the local maritime authority said Monday. A severe drought began to hit Guangxi in early August. The average water level in Changzhou ship [...]
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Arctic Ice Cap Will disappear

By | Published: October 15, 2009
Professor Peter Wadhams, head of the polar ocean physics group at Britain’s Cambridge University said, “The summer ice cover will completely vanish in 20 to 30 years but in less than that it will have considerably retreated.” “In about 10 years, the Arctic ice will be considered as open sea.” “An average thickness of 1.8 [...]
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By | Published: October 12, 2009
Tracking air pollution to and from the United States When it comes to global air pollution, what goes around comes around. Air pollution from factories, traffic, and power plants in Asia wafts over the Pacific Ocean to the United States, while pollutants produced in the United States wind up in Europe. A report by the [...]
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