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China's greenhouse gas pollution could double or more in two decades says a new Chinese state think-tank study that casts stark light on the industrial giant's role in stoking global warming.

Yongfeng Feng, a Beijing environmental journalist, writes that renewable energies and trees are critical to reducing greenhouse gases, but manmade, single-species forests fail at carbon capture and adversely affect biodiversity, from http://www.chinadialogue.net

Vice Minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, Zhao Baige, has announced that the government is examining the effects of removing its controversial one-child policy, in place since the 70s.

This article, via Mask of China, makes you think how far the river has come since Mao took his famous dips. Due to droughts (and a completely disregard for hard-hitting environmental policy), the Chang Jiang (??) or Yangtse River is packed with about 7 million cubic feet of garbage congesting at the controversial Three Gorges Dam.

ESWN takes a critical look at why the headline "750,000 a year killed by Chinese pollution" is not a fair or informed one. His analysis raises the question of whether or not that number is actually not too bad.

Excerpt:

China Daily says "abnormal weather tells us we must protect our environment and reduce greenhouse gas emissions."

The World Health Organization (WHO) says:

1. Humans are seriously affected by climate change

2. climate change is a global threat

BEIJING - Starbucks has closed a coffeehouse in China's former imperial palace, the company said Saturday, ending a presence that sparked protests by Chinese critics who said it damaged a key historical site.

The most populous country in the world is moving to a car-based economy, which is more bad news for global warming

China’s white river dolphin appears to now be extinct, according to a team of biologists that spent six weeks searching for it in its usual habitat of the Yangtze River. This makes it the first mammal globally to become extinct in the past 50 years, despite private attempts to preserve the animal. China’s rapid industrialization and pollution of the Yangtze River have largely been to blame, with no serious attempts by government to act to save the 25 million year old species.