Five Southeast Asian countries have lost nearly one-third of their forests in the last 35 years and could be left with less than a fifth of their original cover by 2030 - with devastating effects...
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Surrounded by hills and plains, close to the Mongolian Plateau, Beijing suffers from extremes of temperature. Every year after the harsh, cold winter, the sandstorm from the Gobi desert invades...
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Worldwide, 13 million hectares of forests are disappearing every year. With so many of the world's forests already destroyed, we urgently need to protect what is left.
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Bo Guangxin, chairman of state-owned timber firm Jilin Forest Industry, said at a meeting of the annual parliament session on Friday that the mass production of the wooden tableware is a heavy...
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Heavy monsoon rain triggered severe flooding in large swathes of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Thursday, bringing the city to a halt with many government offices and businesses forced to...
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China’s insatiable appetite for timber is driving an illegal trade in Asian and African forests that is fuelling conflict, an environmental group said on Thursday.
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A vocal environmentalist faced charges of "illegal business operation" in a court in Hainan yesterday for self-publishing books on environmental conflicts caused by government-backed projects.
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Solid wooden furniture and floors are a feature in many Hong Kong homes. This fondness for wood has contributed to the growing problem of deforestation, and this problem is particularly serious in...
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Haiti was devastated by a massive earthquake one month ago. It was one of the greatest natural catastrophes to have occurred in our lifetime.
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We've had oodles of entries for our Your Perfect Summer essay competition which closed yesterday. Hong Kong's budding writers have certainly been busy.
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About one-tenth of the mainland's forests have been damaged by the recent winter storms, Xinhua reported yesterday. Nearly 90 per cent of forests in the hardest-hit regions were ruined, it said...
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Efforts by a United Nations-sponsored reforestation project in the mainland's north have gone down the drain, with a commercial deal signed by the local government stripping the land bare.
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