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Emergency Olympics smog plan announced  Chinese officials have announced a plan to deal with Beijing's persistent pollution problem as athletes flock toward the country Lingering pollution worries China  China has admitted it could introduce further emergency measures to cut air pollution during the Olympics Environmentalists dismiss G8 target  A call from the world's most powerful nations is to establish the goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by 2050 54 ill as new toxic fume suicide hits Map of Kumamoto Japan  Toxic fumes appears at a hospital in southern Japan when a man vomited after drinking pesticide to commit suicide China 'now top carbon polluter'  China has already overtaken the US as the world's 'biggest polluter'. The country's greenhouse gas emissions have been underestimated China to log its worst polluters  Factories, farms will have to declare how much, and what kind of pollutants, they discharge South Korea faces 'sea of oil'  Thousands of people used shovels and buckets to clean up S. Korea's largest oil spill, which blackened beaches along the western coast China leads cuts protests

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Dec.9   South Korea
Dec.8   Bali
  Developing countries squabbled with the West over mandatory emission cuts at the climate change conference
Dec.7   South Korea
  Thousands of tons of oil spilled off the western coast of South Korea after an oil tanker collided with a barge carrying a crane
 The crane punctured holes in the side of the tanker Hebei Spirit a. About 10,000 tons of oil gushed out
Oct.25   Beijing Pollution casts shadow over Games Oct.12   China Millions forced out by dam  At least 4 million people are to be moved from the area around Three Gorges Dam amid warnings of an 'environmental catastroph' Sep.26   China Eco warning over giant dam  China could face a catastrophe if it fails to quickly stop environmental problems such as flooding caused by the gigantic 3 Gorges Dam Sep.21   Beijing Drivers ignore No Car Day  China is holding a No Car Day in over 100 cities as it tries to reduce smog ahead of the 2008 Olympics Aug.8   Beijing Pollution risk for Olympic events Aug.7   China Rare river dolphin 'now extinct'  A freshwater Yangtze river dolphins found only in China is now 'ikely to be extinct', a team of scientists has concluded Jul.18   Japan Mayor orders shutdown of nuclear plant   The Kashiwazaki mayor ordered that a nuclear power plant hit by a strong earthquake be shut down until its safety could be confirmed May.24   Japan   PM eyes 50% greenhouse gas cut  Shinzo Abe has said the world should halve emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, to replace the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012 May.3   Thailand Deal struck at UN climate talks
  Experts at a climate change conference in Bangkok have reached a deal on the ways to combat global warming.    China tried to to water down language on c...
Feb.6   China Climate change 'affecting' China  At least 300,000 people in north-west are short of drinking water because of unseasonably warm weather Jan.21   Japan Tuna conservation talks in Japan  A major effort to try to reverse the decline in stocks worldwide is getting underway in Kobe

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Oct.7   Sumatra   Smoke blankets region  Parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore have been hit by smog from illegal bush fires burning on Sumatra and Borneo

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Feb.16   Japan Kyoto Protocol comes into force
  The Protocol, which aims to slow global warming, has come into force 7 years after being agreed

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Aug.9   Japan   Deaths at nuclear plant  A steam leak northwest of Tokyo has killed 4 workers and injured at least 10 others Apr.17   Southern China Mass evacuation in Chongqing  150,000 people have been evacuated after a series of explosions hit a chemical plant and kill at least 9

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Dec.25   China 233 died in gas disaster
  Thousands flee the disaster. A gas well burst in the Chuan Dongbei gas field, releasing natural gas and sulfurated hydrogen

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