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Danny OCallaghan

EU to impose anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese solar panels | Business | The Guardian - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ffs-dumping-china-solar-panels

china

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 10 Jun 13
     
    "EU's executive arm accuses China of selling panels below-cost and threatening 25,000 jobs in the European solar industry"
Danny OCallaghan

Focus: Pigging out | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/...focus-3

china

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 10 Jun 13
     
    "This year the world will eat 112m tonnes of pork. Around half will be munched in Chinese mouths, according to the Agricultural Outlook report from the FAO and the OECD, a rich country club. The Chinese have been the world's biggest meat-eaters for over two decades. Pork is their favourite: each person scoffs about 38kg a year, compared with 28kg swallowed by Americans. "
Danny OCallaghan

Ghana arrests 124 Chinese citizens for illegal gold mining | World news | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...st-chinese-illegal-gold-mining

ghana china gold

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 10 Jun 13
     
    "Ghanaian authorities have arrested 124 Chinese citizens for illegal gold mining in the resource-rich west African country, highlighting the social and environmental challenges posed by China's growing presence on the continent."
Danny OCallaghan

Cod stocks recover after years of overfishing | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...cks-recover-overfishing-marine

Overfishing

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    "Survey suggests effective management means levels are increasing - but stocks won't be sustainable for at least a year"
Danny OCallaghan

Eight ways to solve world hunger | Global development | The Observer - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...eight-ways-solve-world-hunger

hunger

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 10 Jun 13
     
    "Millions of people are starving, despite the world producing more than enough to feed everyone. What can we do about it?"
Danny OCallaghan

Victims of China's 'cancer villages' battle to expose polluted reality - interactive | ... - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...villages-pollution-interactive

china cancer

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 04 Jun 13
     
    "Death rates soar above the national averages in small communities near industrial and chemical plants in China. Roll over the dark green circles …"
Danny OCallaghan

China signals hunger for Arctic's mineral riches | Environment | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...china-arctics-mineral-riches

china Arctic

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 04 Jun 13
     
    "China's admission to the Arctic Council reflects the Arctic's natural resources becoming a top priority for world powers"
Danny OCallaghan

Inside China's 'cancer villages' | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...china-villages-cancer-deaths

china cancer

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 04 Jun 13
     
    "Death rates in communities near chemical, pharmaceutical or power plants exceed the national average, but residents face a wall of denial and intimidation"
Danny OCallaghan

McDonald's 'Italianised' menu: the future of fast food? | Life and style | guardian.co.uk - 3 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...lianised-menu-future-fast-food

Globalisation

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 30 May 13
     
    As we discovered last week in Italy, the company likes to to localise its menu. Can global chains 'do' regional specialities?
Danny OCallaghan

Multinational and deforestation - 0 views

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Rainforest

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 28 May 13
     
    "In only a few years, logging and agribusiness have cut Indonesia's vast rainforest by half. The government has renewed a moratorium on deforestation but it may already be too late for the endangered animals -and for the people whose lives lie in ruin"
Danny OCallaghan

'Indonesia is seeing a new corporate colonialism' | Global development | The Observer - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...esia-new-corporate-colonialism

Colonialism

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 28 May 13
     
    "Multinational companies have been encouraged to seize and deforest land owned by indigenous people, say human rights groups"
Danny OCallaghan

BBC News - Brazil 'to write off' almost $900m of African debt - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-latin-america-22669331

aid Brazil Africa

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 28 May 13
     
    "Brazil has announced that it will cancel or restructure almost $900m (£600m) worth of debt with Africa. Oil- and gas-rich Congo-Brazzaville, Tanzania and Zambia are among the 12 African countries to benefit. The move is seen as an effort to boost economic ties between the world's seventh largest economy and the African continent."
Danny OCallaghan

Mount Everest's glaciers shrinking at increasing rate, say researchers | World news | T... - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ciers-shrinking-global-warming

climate change

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 24 May 13
     
    "Glaciers on or around Everest have shrunk 13% in 50 years with the snow line 180 metres higher than it was 50 years ago"
Danny OCallaghan

Campaigners in China challenge authorities over environmental impact of planned petroch... - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...trochemical-plant-8619776.html

china

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 22 May 13
     
    "Fears over proposed refinery in southern city of Kunming attracts thousands of protesters"
Danny OCallaghan

Global carbon emissions and sinks since 1750 - 0 views

shrinkthatfootprint.com/carbon-emissions-and-sinks

Carbon emissions

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 22 May 13
     
    "Since 1750 the human race has been responsible for 2,000 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions. These human carbon emissions have added to the much larger natural carbon cycle and resulted in the growing atmospheric concentrations so well documented by the Keeling Curve."
Danny OCallaghan

Ocean scene: before and after overfishing | News | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...n-before-and-after-overfishing

Overfishing

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 22 May 13
     
    "What do emptier waters look like? This web aquarium shows declining fish populations over the past 100 years - and it uses more than 200 datasets to do it. We recommend that you closely analyse the data showing that the population of big fish has been decimated while small fish are now overly abundant. Or else you can leave it on your screen as a digital pet and a grim modern Tamagotchi. "
Danny OCallaghan

Is China really a climate change leader? | Jennifer Duggan | Environment | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...china-climate-change-leader

China Climate change

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 12 May 13
     
    "A new report portrays China as a leader in tackling climate change but its emissions are still rising dramatically"
Danny OCallaghan

China's barbaric one-child policy | Books | The Guardian - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...inas-barbaric-one-child-policy

China One child policy

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  • Danny OCallaghan on 12 May 13
     
    "For more than 30 years, China has upheld a strict one-child policy. And despite the country's growing prosperity, novelist Ma Jian discovered that ruthless squads still brutally enforce the law with vast fines - and compulsory sterilisations and abortions"
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