Stories: Environment
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An Editor’s View - China’s environmental issues
Peter Thomson is the environment editor for “The World” on BBC/PRI. In this video Thomson discusses his impressions of China's vast population and the effects on the ...
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An Editor’s View - Christy George
Over 50% of Chinese live in rural areas, farming the land. Runoff from fertilizers, pesticides and animal waste is polluting China’s rivers and contaminating produce. A few ...
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Brazil water protection a $100 Million Market?
São Paulo state's Atibainha Reservoir feeds the Cantareira water system, one of Latin America’s biggest. Water ...
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China’s Hobson’s Choice
Dianchi Lake, in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming, used to be one of the Middle Kingdom’s worst environmental disaster zones. Years of industrialization and high-intensity ...
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Worldview: A green movement grows in rural China
Gao Hai, a former Shanghai disc jockey who returned to Anlong village to grow - and cook - organic produce. (photo: Trudy Rubin) ANLONG, China - ...
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Peru’s Mineral Wealth and Woes
Introduction LIMA, PERU -- The commodities boom of the last decade fueled growth, but it also poses social and environmental problems. Peru is emblematic of the economic promise ...
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The Carbon Conundrum
Sean Carberry travels to Peru to explore efforts to prevent deforestation, the second leading contributor to carbon dioxide emissions, and the competing economic incentives for ...
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Kurt Holle’s ecolodge employs locals while slowing the devastation of the Amazon
Kurt Holle opened the Posada Amazonas ecolodge in 1996 and will turn over all operations to locals in 2016. photo: Matthew Clark/The Christian ...
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Peru farmers drop cocaine in favor of cocoa
Pinto Recodo, Peru — Deep in a valley where Peru's snow-capped Andes melt into Amazon jungle, Wilder Diaz Angulo cuts open a football-sized cocoa pod and separates precious brown ...
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Environment: In Peru’s Amazon, finding gold but leaving mercury
Puerto Maldonado, Peru - On a sweltering day in Peru’s Amazon, Riquelme loads a bag of rocks onto his back, sticks a plastic hose in his mouth, and steps off the back of a ...
