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Offline sam

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China takes stock of environment
« on: February 13, 2010, 21:30 »
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China has completed its first ever pollution census. The 4-billion yuan (US$585-million) project took 570,000 people two years to complete. It tracked pollution from industry, agriculture, urban waste, landfills and incinerators.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100212/full/news.2010.68.html

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Offline Clive

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Re: China takes stock of environment
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2010, 22:38 »
What a disgrace!  What hope have we to fight pollution when China just pays lip service? 
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Re: China takes stock of environment
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2010, 11:22 »
It's about time they did something.
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Re: China takes stock of environment
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2010, 13:09 »
Stocktaking must take a huge amount of time...  :o:
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