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 A UN report says it will cost up to $1bn and take 30 years to clean up the damage done by decades of drilling by Shell.Oil exploration in Nigeria's south for several decades has had a debilitating effect on the ...Read More

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Enough of all these disasters. It is time to go for clean energy resources even though expensive. This is just another example that nuclear power is a totally unrealiable source of energy. Who took the decision to build nuclear power ...Read More

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Like many villages in China’s industrial heartland, Qiugang — a hamlet of nearly 1,900 people in Anhui province — has long suffered from runaway pollution from nearby factories. In Qiugang’s case, three major enterprises with little or no pollution controls ...Read More

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BEIJING - Xu Yinxian, a 58-year-old cleaner dressed in an orange uniform, appears in a residential community near the Fourth North Ring Road in Beijing every morning and afternoon.He removes garbage from dustbins on which the signs of "recycle" and ...Read More

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To get a sense of how China’s air quality compares with the rest of the world, there’s a new map of global air-particulate pollution from Canadian scientists using National Aeronautics and Space Administration satellite data. The verdict: It doesn’t look ...Read More

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Beijing (AsiaNews / Agencies) - About 2 thousand angry rural people blocked the highway bridge that passes near Nangang (Shucheng County, Anhui), in July 24 to protest against a new landfill that the municipality wants to place upstream of ...Read More

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[portfolio_slideshow]On 16th July, 2010 two oil pipelines near the Xingang Harbor were exploded, igniting a roaring conflagration that shot flames 60 feet into the air and spilling tons of oil into the Yellow Sea. Several beaches and islands have been ...Read More

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Using satellites, scientists have been tracking the movement of BP's Deep Water Horizon oil slick as currents have pushed it closer and closer to the Gulf Coast. Now, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research have used supercomputers to ...Read More

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I am reporting here the article extracted from the BP website. The primary objective of the top kill process is to put heavy kill mud into the well so that it reduces the pressure and then the flow from the well. ...Read More

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News sources have just reported that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is spreading out of control and now threatens to eclipse the 1989 Exxon Valdez accident, which leaked 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William ...Read More