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"Official: China Mining More Coal But Increasing Wind, Solar" [14]

"China plans to boost coal production through 2025 to avoid a repeat of last year’s power shortages, an official said Monday, adding to setbacks in efforts to cut climate-changing carbon emissions from the biggest global source."

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Source: AP [16], 10/18/2022

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"Xi Vows To Prioritise Environment, Protect Nature" [17]

"President Xi Jinping on Sunday said China will give priority to environmental protection and promoting green lifestyles, and that the conservation of nature was an essential part of building a modern socialist country."

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Source: Reuters [18], 10/17/2022

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COP 27 Egypt — From Afar, How UN Meeting Will Affect Climate Change Reporting [19]

How will the UN’s yearly climate treaty talks in Egypt next month touch domestic U.S. reporting? The latest Backgrounder has an outlook, with close attention to the question of compensation for nations suffering the worst impacts of global warming, plus the politics of war and energy, methane and HFCs. The prospects for action in and after Egypt.

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"Pakistan Disease Outbreaks After Floods Spur Calls For Crisis Plan" [33]

"Pakistan is facing a disaster within a disaster as diseases spread rapidly and deaths mount following widespread deadly flooding - a crisis worsened by the country's weak health system and lack of emergency planning, medical experts warn."

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Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [37], 10/03/2022

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On the Persistence of Ocean Plastics [38]

Concerns about seaborne plastic waste go back decades, but science writer Juli Berwald suggests that myths and disinformation about sources and solutions continue to cloud the waters. From lentil-sized nurdles to sprawling fishing nets, 200 million tons of plastic now fill the ocean and, for her, it has become evident that the ocean plastics story is really a land story. But will the newly signed international treaty on plastics offer relief?

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Cambodian Mekong Mega Dam’s Resurrection ‘The Beginning Of The End’ [58]

"A long-dormant plan to build a mega dam on the mainstream of the Mekong River in Cambodia’s northeastern Stung Treng province appears to have been revived this year, leaving locals immediately downstream of the potential sites worried and experts confounded."

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Source: Mongabay [59], 09/21/2022

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Author Shares Unorthodox Look at the Ways of Water [60]

How water moves through the global ecosystem and shapes our landscapes is the subject of a must-read new book by writer Erica Gies, according to BookShelf editor Tom Henry. A significant part of water’s story is how humanity invariably fails when trying to manipulate it. But hope may reside with Gies’ various “water detectives,” who explore how to “let water go where it wants to go.”

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"WHO Raises Alarm On Disease In Flood-Hit Areas Of Pakistan" [64]

"The World Health Organization raised the alarm Saturday about a “second disaster” in the wake of the deadly floods in Pakistan this summer, as doctors and medical workers on the ground race to battle outbreaks of waterborne and other diseases."

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