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    <title><![CDATA[Explore extending weather forecast 10-30 days ahead]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243585.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[The current working priority for China's meteorological firms involves exploring an extended weather forecast system that would operate 10 to 30 days in advance, claimed the Director of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) Zheng Guoguang on Thursday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>2008/02/22 13:53</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[They will drive you green without envy]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243568.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[Clean energy is the focus of the auto industry this year. It better be because the government is now determined to save energy and control the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs).]]></description>
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    <pubDate>2008/02/22 13:25</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA['Paradise' helps white swans survive the winter]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243549.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[The Sanmenxia Dam area in Henan Province has witnessed rare, continuously snowy weather since winter began last year. Local government purchased 15,000 kilograms of corn and wheat, then scattered the grain around an aquatic area that had thawed out to feed endangered white swans who migrate there annually. ]]></description>
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    <pubDate>2008/02/22 14:27</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[New dinosaur species identified in E. China]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243520.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[Chinese and Japanese scientists have confirmed a five-meter-tall and 15-meter-long dinosaur fossil unearthed in eastern China's Zhejiang Province in September was a new species of the animal.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>2008/02/22 09:22</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[Snow havoc leaves destruction in southern forests]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Spring is coming, the ice and snow are melting, but the hills at the nature reserves in southern China's Guangdong Province are not turning green - the forests there have been almost totally destroyed by snow damage this winter.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>2008/02/22 08:36</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[Athletes forbidden to bring own food to Olympic Games Village]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[All athletes will be prohibited from taking their own food into the Beijing Olympic Games Village in order to ensure food safety, Olympic officials said on Thursday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>2008/02/21 16:00</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[Blizzards cost China's tourism sector US$1 bln]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243456.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[The snow crisis that hit China over the Spring Festival period had a devastating effect on tourism in those provinces worst hit by the snowstorms, with revenues down nearly a third compared with last year. ]]></description>
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    <pubDate>2008/02/21 15:43</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[Green cost of sleet: US$8b of forest wealth]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243451.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[Monkeys shivering with cold. Farmers weeping over their loss. Trees damaged for miles after miles. These are some of the video clips provided by the State Forestry Administration Tuesday to show the damage caused by the worst winter in central and southern China in more than half a century.
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    <pubDate>2008/02/21 15:24</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[China calls for adherence to Kyoto Protocol]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243441.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[China Wednesday called on the international community to observe the principles and framework set by the Kyoto Protocol and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>2008/02/21 15:07</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[Pearl River Delta taps underground water]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243428.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[Guangdong Province in southern China has arranged 10 million yuan for the exploitation and evaluation of the underground water at the emergency water source around the Pearl River Delta.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>2008/02/21 14:30</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[Chinese Lantern Festival coming]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243416.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[A worker makes Yuanxiao, a kind of round and sweet dumpling made of glutinous rice flour, at a workshop in Nanjing, Jiangsu province February 19, 2008. The last day of the Chinese New Year this year falls on February 21 and is commonly celebrated with these dumplings and a lantern parade. ]]></description>
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    <pubDate>2008/02/21 11:19</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[China warned of severe sandstorms, droughts]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243411.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[The China Meteorological Administration said on Wednesday that the country's northern regions were likely to experience more frequent and severe sandstorms in spring, while eastern regions would receive less rain than last year. ]]></description>
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    <pubDate>2008/02/21 17:37</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[Power suppliers given deadline]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243408.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[The country's two major power firms have been told to speed up repair work in snow-hit regions to ensure electricity is restored by the end of next month.]]></description>
    <category>news</category>  
    <pubDate>2008/02/21 10:32</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[Rich Chinese are partial to foreign brands]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243403.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[Big foreign labels such as Chanel and BMW continue to dominate as top brands for wealthy Chinese consumers, with their choices determined mainly by quality and environment factors, a recent survey has found.]]></description>
    <category>news</category>  
    <pubDate>2008/02/21 10:21</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[How to handle an invasive species? Eat it]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243400.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[Late last year, a flotilla of fluorescent jellyfish covering 16 sq km of ocean was borne by the tide into a small bay on the Irish Sea. These mauve stingers, venomous glow-in-the-dark plankton native to the Mediterranean, slipped through the mesh of aquaculture nets, stinging the 120,000 fish in Northern Ireland's only salmon farm to death.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>2008/02/21 10:07</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[Shanghai Maritime official calls for funding]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243398.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[More needs to be done to raise Shanghai's capability to deal with oil pollution at sea, an official from the Shanghai maritime administration said yesterday.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>2008/02/21 09:58</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[Three Gorges Dam continues to suffer water woes]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243392.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[The water quality in several branches of the Three Gorges Dam area is worsening even though the main body of water has been getting slightly cleaner, environmental authorities said this week.]]></description>
    <category>news</category>  
    <pubDate>2008/02/21 09:45</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[NW China farmers take advantage of snow]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243319.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[The severe snow raging across China this winter has been welcomed in drought-stricken northwest China, where people have been working against the clock to take advantage of the rain and snow to seed grass and plants on the edge of desert land.]]></description>
    <category>news</category>  
    <pubDate>2008/02/20 14:58</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[Kids make cloth bags to welcome green Olympics]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243310.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[Children from a community in Qinghuangdao in northern China's Hebei Province hand out free environmentally friendly cloth bags they made to other residents on Monday, Feb 18.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>2008/02/20 14:24</pubDate>  
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    <title><![CDATA[China zoo animals 'go digital']]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/243286.htm]]></link>  
    <description><![CDATA[Zoo keepers in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality began implanting digital identification chips in animals on Tuesday to strengthen their management, the first such move in the country. ]]></description>
    <category>news</category>  
    <pubDate>2008/02/20 11:00</pubDate>  
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