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China suspends 104 planned coal power plants
By Zachary Davies Boren | Energy Desk, Greenpeace The Chinese government is taking dramatic steps in order to comply with the coal capacity target laid out in its latest Five Year Plan. The National Energy Administration has announced that 104 planned and under-construction coal power projects – with a total capacity of 120GW – have been…
Read MoreGiraffes, Towering and Otherworldly, Are ‘Vulnerable’ to Extinction
By Patrick Healy | The New York Times The majestic giraffe, the world’s tallest land mammal and a prime attraction at zoos worldwide, is threatened with extinction because of illegal hunting and a loss of its habitat, according to a report published on Thursday by an international monitoring group. The giraffe population has declined by 40 percent over the past…
Read MoreWilderness land set to disappear from planet by 2100 as humans move in
By Ian Johnston | Independent | September 8, 2016 A tenth of the world’s wild land – an area equivalent to half the vast Amazon basin – has been lost in just two decades in an “alarming” trend that requires urgent action on an international scale, experts have warned. At the current rate of decline there will be no…
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