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		<title>The Scariest Environmental Fact in the World</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/01/29/the-scariest-environmental-fact-in-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[See this sobering graph from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): As the data show, China is now burning almost as much coal as the rest of the world — combined. And despite impressive support from Beijing for renewable energy and a dawning understanding about the dangers of air pollution, coal use in China is poised to continue rising, if slower than it has in recent years. That&#8217;s deadly for the Chinese people — see the truly horrific air pollution in Beijing this past month — and it&#8217;s dangerous for the rest of the world. Coal already accounts for 20% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, making it one of the biggest causes of man-made climate change. Combine that with the direct damage that air pollution from coal combustion does to human health, and there&#8217;s a reason why some have called coal the enemy of the human race. Of course, there&#8217;s a reason why coal is so popular in China and in much of the rest of the world: it&#8217;s very, very cheap. And that&#8217;s why, despite the danger coal poses to health and the environment, neither China nor many other rapidly growing developing nations are likely to turn away from it. (If you really want to get scared, see this report from the International Energy Agency — hat tip to Ed Crooks of the Financial Times — which notes that by 2017, India could be burning more importing as much coal as China.) That&#8217;s likely to remain the case in poor nations until clean energy can compete with coal on price — and that day hasn&#8217;t come yet. The EIA&#8217;s chart also shows how limited President Obama&#8217;s ability to deal with climate change really is. The reality is that the vast majority of the carbon emissions to come will be emitted by developing nations like China — and much of that will be due to coal. As we&#8217;ve reported, the U.S. has reduced coal use and cut carbon emissions in recent years, even in the absence of comprehensive climate legislation, thanks<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=13087&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>China</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://science.time.com/category/china/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Soaring to Sinking: How Building Up Is Bringing Shanghai Down</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/05/21/soaring-to-sinking-how-building-up-is-bringing-shanghai-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 13:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Springer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shanghai&#8217;s skyline glitters with sleek financial skyscrapers and glossy residential towers, but below the city’s lustrous facade lies an enduring problem. Thanks to mass urban migration, soft soil and global warming, Shanghai is sinking, and has been for decades. Since 1921, China’s most populous city has descended more than 6 ft. Across China, land subsidence affects more than 50 cities, where 49,000 sq. mi. of land have dropped at least 8 in. It&#8217;s not just the numbers that are frightening: the problem has manifested itself tragically and more frequently of late. Earlier this month, a young woman unexpectedly fell through the sidewalk into a 20-ft.-deep sinkhole while walking along the street in Xi&#8217;an. In April, a woman died after falling through the sidewalk into a pit of boiling water in Beijing. Scientists have continuously warned of dire repercussions if the government does not implement more stringent guidelines for urban planning, water usage and carbon emissions — and they expect the situation to get much worse in areas with large-scale, fast-paced construction, like Shanghai. As progress continues on Asia’s soon-to-be-tallest skyscraper, the Shanghai Tower, the problem has manifested itself in malicious cracks nearby, captured and posted by users of the Twitteresque microblogging site Sina Weibo, then published by ChinaSmack. In mid-February, one blogger posted about a 22-ft.-long crack situated near the 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center, across the street from the highly anticipated tower. (MORE: A Valuable New Tool Lets You See Where the Sea Will Rise) In response to bloggers’ concerns, Shanghai Tower Construction, the company responsible for building the tower, issued a statement saying surface cracks were “controlled and safe,” the Shanghaiist reported. Liu Dongwei, chief architect of the China Institute of Building Standard Design &#38; Research, cited groundwater, rainfall and soft soil foundation as the reasons for the settlements. But that&#8217;s only partially accurate. Shanghai has inherently soft soil because of its geographical position at the mouth of the Yangtze River basin and, yes, groundwater accounts for nearly 70% of land subsidence; however, experts say, the weight of skyscrapers and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=8563&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>By Sea, Land and Air: Hong Kong Inventor Leads Charge in War Against Pollution</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/05/09/by-land-air-and-sea-hong-kong-inventor-leads-charge-in-war-against-pollution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 23:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Springer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[energy efficiency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following alarming reports of thousands of annual deaths from pollution in Hong Kong and the city&#8217;s promise to reach World Health Organization standards by 2014, air pollution and clean energy have been infectious topics in Hong Kong this year. With an air quality objective more than 25 years old, government response has arguably been slow to act, but there have been swift and ample efforts from local academics, activists and engineers to get the first-class city on track to meet first-rate air quality standards. One Hong Kong-based inventor, Lucien Gambarota, is leading the way. Since the age of 12, the French-born Italian has been making a name for himself as a trailblazing engineer. Forty years since his first invention — an underwater breathing machine — Gambarota is living in Hong Kong with roughly 300 innovations under his belt. Sensing that energy would be an issue for future generations, Gambarota began focusing his electric zeal on conservation and renewable projects about a decade ago. He’s created everything from a welcome mat that powers a light bulb to large-scale projects, such as a wave machine that harnesses energy from the ocean. (MORE: Political Pollution: How Bad Air is Slowly Changing China) With Hong Kong&#8217;s dearth of natural resources, limited amount of land, and whole lot of water, Gambarota says he thought his wave machine made sense for the coastal city. His designs and prototypes prompted interest from the government and local academics, but before long, the inventor ran out of funding. “I did the only thing I knew how to do,” Gambarota tells TIME. “I decided to raise money by inventing something else.” Constantly juggling four to five innovations simultaneously, the scientist looked to the sky for a solution. In 2007, Gambarota partnered with Dennis Leung, a professor at Hong Kong University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Michael Leung, now the Director of the Ability R&#38;D Energy Research Centre of City University, to develop a micro-wind turbine intended for urban environments. The trio presented its technology at a press conference that year, and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=8479&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raring to Fight: The U.S. Tangles with China over Rare-Earth Exports</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/03/13/raring-to-fight-the-u-s-tangles-with-china-over-rare-earth-exports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has been talking tough about what he sees as unfair Chinese trade policy since at least this year&#8217;s State of the Union speech, when the President boasted that his Administration had brought up trade cases against China at nearly twice the rate of his predecessor. (In former President George W. Bush&#8217;s defense, there was a good three-to-four-year stretch there when he seemed to simply forget that China existed.) When Chinese Vice President and likely future leader Xi Jinping visited the U.S. a month ago, there was some hope that the two major trade partners would be able to work out their differences — those differences being that the U.S. thinks China is giving unfair support to its exporters, and China think it&#8217;s, well, not doing that. Trade between China and the U.S. was worth nearly $400 billion in 2009, making it in the interests of both countries to work something out. Or not. This morning Obama announced that the U.S. — along with the European Union and Japan — had filed a case with the World Trade Organization requesting talks with China over its export controls of the rare-earth minerals used in the high-tech and clean-tech manufacturing industries. The request for consultations is the first step in a process that will lead to a full legal case within two months, unless China agrees to the demands to ease its tightening export quotas on rare-earth minerals. That isn&#8217;t likely — and the fact that Obama chose to make his case publicly, from the White House Rose Garden, indicates that both sides could be gearing up for a trade war in a presidential-election year. &#8220;Being able to manufacture advanced batteries and cars is too important to sit back and do nothing,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;We can&#8217;t let the new energy industry take root in other countries because they are allowed to break the rules.&#8221; (MORE: Got Yttrium?) What are rare earths, and why is the President so concerned about them? A 2011 TIME piece I wrote explains some of the basics: Today<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=8114&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Pollution: How Bad Air is Slowly Changing China</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/01/22/political-pollution-how-bad-air-equals-social-unrest-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China confirmed this week that the number of its citizens living in cities has surpassed the rural population for the first time in its history. That massive urbanization — 690.79 million people are now city-dwellers according to the National Bureau of Statistics — has brought huge benefits, chief among them lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. But it has also led to serious problems, perhaps none more so than the increasingly foul air in these heaving metropolises that are growing bigger, busier and dirtier by the day. In Beijing the situation has become so bad the capital’s airport has repeatedly been forced to close temporarily in recent months as dense smog prevented take-offs and landings. Meanwhile, the air has been so thick that residents have struggled to see across the road. MORE: The China-U.S. Solar War Heats Up Among the concerns about this well-documented public health hazard is the response — or, rather, lack of response — of the Chinese government. The controversy has centered on PM 2.5, the fine particles believed to pose the largest health risks since their small size (less than one-seventh the average width of a human hair) can lodge deeply into the lungs. The Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center has collected data on such particulate matter for the past five years but refused to make it public, preferring to release the readings of the larger PM 10 particles—which makes the air readings seem cleaner then they are. This led to farcical situations where the government would declare the air &#8216;good&#8217; or even &#8216;excellent&#8217; when the opposite was true. After the U.S. embassy in downtown Beijing began releasing on Twitter hourly air quality measurements, including PM 2.5, from its rooftop monitoring station, the disparity between the two accounts was stark. In the first analysis of the embassy data on pollution, Steven Andrews, an environmental consultant based in Beijing, found in the last two years Beijing officials have announced good or even excellent air quality nearly 80% of the time, while the embassy has rated 80% of days with<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=7741&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Chinese Babies Pay the Price for Chinese Pollution</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/10/19/how-chinese-babies-pay-the-price-for-chinese-pollution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a very good thing that neural tube defects are relatively rare in the U.S., because they are very cruel conditions for a newborn to  suffer. The two most common types of such birth defects are spina bifida – in which the backbone and spinal canal do not close properly  — and anencephaly, in which a large portion of the brain and skull are simply missing. There are about 3,000 babies born in the U.S. with neural tube defects each year, or about .75 for every thousand live births. The numbers are much grimmer in China, particularly in the Shanxi province, where there are roughly 14 neural-tube defect babies born per thousand.  The Shanxi province is also flat-out filthy — an environmental disaster area, awash in what are known as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), which include various kinds of pesticides as well as byproducts of burning coal and oil. The association between environmental cause and birth defect effect seemed impossible to deny, but until now, a rigorous study of the link had not been fully conducted. Now, thanks to a 10-year collaboration between investigators at the University of Texas at Austin and Peking University, it has, and the results are sobering. According to findings  recently published the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Shanxi kids exposed to pesticides and fossil fuel pollutants in utero have a 450% increased risk of neural tube defects, compared to other, unexposed kids. &#8220;We&#8217;ve suspected for a while that some of these pollutants are related to an increase in birth defects,&#8221; says Richard Finnell, professor of nutritional sciences and lead author of the paper, &#8220;but we haven&#8217;t always had the evidence to show it.&#8221; Finnell and his colleagues conducted their work by analyzing the placentas of 80 newborn or stillborn babies with either spina bifida or anencephaly. All of the babies had unusually high levels of two pesticides: endosulfan, which is used to treat cotton, apples, tomatoes and potatoes and is currently being phased out in the U.S.; and lindane, now banned in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=6976&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ConocoPhillips May Have to Pay Up in China Spill</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/07/06/conocophillips-may-have-to-pay-up-in-china-spill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said this week that a large oil spill off the coast of Shandong province, near Beijing, is worse than previously stated, and that the government may seek compensation from ConocoPhillips, the U.S. oil company with a 49% stake in the oilfield. On Tuesday the agency said that two separate spills on June 4 and 17 contaminated an 840-square-kilometer area of the Bohai Sea — more than four times the original 200 square-km that the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), the majority stakeholder in the field, first said were affected. The leak may have been caused by pressure build-up after water was injected in the drilling well. The environmental impact of the spill, now seemingly contained, is being evaluated. One green group has said oil is still visible on the water&#8217;s surface, and a division of the SOA has said the water they have measured in the area has gotten the worst marks on its pollution index. More unsettling has been the way the oil firms and the SOA withheld information about the incident for nearly a month before going public with a first low estimate last week. The state-backed press came out with uncharacteristically critical coverage of the affair today after the new estimates surfaced, likely in an effort to beef up China&#8217;s green street cred. Still, it&#8217;s something. As a Global Times editorial read: &#8220;We cannot help but wonder: Is the SOA a serious watchdog that exists to prevent bigger incidents from happening, or a loving parent who is over-protective of his own child?&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=5638&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Siberia Becoming China’s One-Stop Energy Shop?</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/07/06/is-siberia-becoming-chinas-one-stop-energy-shop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold.” So Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote of his years of hard labor in 19th century Siberia, after a jittery Tsar Nicholas I banished the famed writer to the lonely Far East. For centuries, the massive swath of land east of Moscow and north of China has been a place of political and cultural exile, but more for its geographic isolation than its lack of provisions. In fact, other exiles in the 1800s made special note that their hosts seemed to have plenty of everything, and by the turn of the century, industrial towns were popping up across the region as tens of thousands of free Russians headed east to take advantage of Siberia’s deep troves of natural resources. A hundred years later, Beijing is getting in on the action, striking deals to import everything Siberia has on offer – from oil to gas to iron to timber — to help feed China&#8217;s growth and appetite for non-coal energy sources. In 2009, China pushed Germany aside to become Russia’s largest trading partner. Russia and China have already signed a binding (though troubled) agreement that Russia will become China’s largest supplier of natural gas from fields in western and eastern Siberia; in June, the two governments held the latest in a series of ongoing talks over that deal. Despite their failure to reach an agreement on gas pricing, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said last month the utility is &#8220;completely ready to begin pipeline construction.&#8221; Meanwhile, as of June 1, over six million tons of crude have flowed from Russia to China via the recently completed East Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline, and plenty of plans to increase Siberian hydropower for Chinese consumption are in the works. Today, a fourth major hydroelectric dam is being completed on Siberia’s Angara River, a 1,105-mile long river that flows out of pristine Lake Baikal, the world’s largest lake. The Boguchanskaya dam is expected to start producing electricity by next spring, and Oleg Deripaska, one of the wealthiest men in Russia and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=5627&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Has &#8220;China Sky&#8221; Helped Slow Global Warming?</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/07/05/has-china-sky-helped-slow-global-warming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I lived in Hong Kong, I used to travel across the border into the People&#8217;s Republic, mostly for stories—like this one about the sex toy king of China—or for simple travel. (Particularly memorable were the all-night raves on the Great Wall of China which, sadly, have since been banned.) When I&#8217;d flip through my photos after I returned home, something always stood out: China sky. In both cities and the countryside, from the north to the south, the color of the sky even on supposedly clear days was a chalky white, the sun a sickly yellow disc barely visible. China sky was the unfortunate side effect of the country&#8217;s rapid economic growth, the smog partially a result of the new coal plant a week that was being built to power that transition. All that coal—in 2009 China consumed more than 3.5 billion tons of it, by far the most in the world—adds to climate change through the carbon released into the atmosphere, but it also leads to truly devastating health consequences from air pollution. As it turns out, however, China sky may actually have another, surprising impact on global warming. For a while now scientists have been somewhat perplexed that the rise in the Earth&#8217;s temperatures paused for a time during the 2000s. It&#8217;s not that the Earth cooled—the last decade was the hottest on record—but global surface temperatures stopped showing a continuing rising trend even as carbon emissions grew year by year. Something had to be acting to offset the warming that should otherwise have been caused by increasing carbon concentrations in the atmosphere. (More from TIME: Choking on Growth) According to a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we can blame—or thank—China and its coal industry. The authors of the study—led by Robert Kaufmann of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Boston University—noted that during the time period there was an 11-year decline in solar input, as well as a cyclical shift from an El Nino to a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=5599&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ongoing Drought Brings Power Shortage to China</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/05/17/ongoing-drought-brings-power-shortage-to-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 09:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note on a couple of interesting articles that surfaced today about the five-month drought in central China. The AP reports that Chinese businesses and residents are facing the largest energy crisis in years, as hydroelectric capacity is now at a low. Elaine Kurtenbach reports about the worst-affected areas: The worst will be a shortfall of more than 11 million kilowatts, or 16 percent of total demand, in Jiangsu, upriver from Shanghai along the Yangtze, where drought has sapped water levels to their lowest ever at some points, stalling shipping. Farmers are feeling it too: Edward Wong writes in the New York Times that nearly 1400 reservoirs in Hebei province are so low they&#8217;re no longer usable for agriculture. The drought is also raising questions about the viability of the South-North Water Diversion, a project decades in the making that is planned to divert water from the Yangtze to Beijing and Tianjin. Emergency water has been released from the Three Gorges Dam to facilitate shipping through the crucial waterway.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=4823&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does China Have an Eye on the Arctic?</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/05/17/does-china-have-an-eye-on-the-arctic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 09:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, WikiLeaks published a new round of diplomatic cables in concert with an annual meeting of the Arctic Council in Nuuk, Greenland. Written between 2007 and 2010, the cables highlight the lingering sense of global insecurity over who owns what at the rooftop of the world. They don’t cover any particularly new ground, but they are interesting because of the candor with which their subject – the competition for potential Arctic resources – is treated, particularly by the U.S. in regards to Greenland. (U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the special trip to Nuuk last week for Arctic Council meeting.) But perhaps more interesting is that embedded in America&#8217;s ambition to get a toehold in Greenland before it splits from Denmark and has a major oil find is concern from the U.S. over China’s interest in island. Here’s an excerpt from cable no. 129049 from 2007: “Our international visitor invitations, English teaching programs and joint scientific/environmental projects have reinforced Greenlandic desires for a closer relationship with the United States, just as Greenland assumes ever-greater charge of its international relations and edges closer to full independence.  Our intensified outreach to the Greenlanders will encourage them to resist any false choice between the United States and Europe.  It will also strengthen our relationship with Greenland vis-a-vis the Chinese, who have shown increasing interest in Greenland&#8217;s natural resources… While Greenland has long been believed to possess significant hydrocarbon and mineral stocks, only in the last three to four years &#8212; with the rise in world oil prices &#8212; have international investors have begun to seriously explore Greenland&#8217;s potential. An American Presence Post in Greenland would provide us with the needed diplomatic platform to seek out new opportunities and advance growing USG interests in Greenland.” Since that cable was penned, the U.S. has shown more enduring interest in Greenland’s hydrocarbon potential. In November, the government of Greenland awarded a license to U.S. energy company ConocoPhillips for an oil and gas exploration in the Baffin Bay area. The U.S. Geological Survey has estimated<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=4816&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Excited Should We Be About China&#8217;s Green Energy?</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/04/28/how-excited-should-we-be-about-chinas-green-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting debate showed up in my Twitter feed today. A few followers of China’s green energy policies have taken climate skeptic Bjorn Lomborg’s recent opinion piece in the Washington Post to task for using some information that undersells what China has accomplished. I hadn’t read Lomborg’s article, which ran on April 21, but it tackles an issue I’ve often wondered about myself – how much of China’s much-hyped investment in green technology is being put into action? His conclusion is that China’s “green success story” is not all that it’s cracked up to be, in part because most Chinese investment in clean energy goes to manufacturing it for western nations that can only afford it with their own governments&#8217; subsides. He writes that the domestic Chinese production there is is thin, citing, in the case of wind power, a “2008 Citigroup analysis found that about one-third of China’s wind power assets were not in use.” Lomborg also writes that the oft-lauded goal of having 11.4% of domestic energy come from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2015 is somewhat misleading: At best, this is a promise to slide backward merely slowly. Today, China gets 13 percent of its energy from non-fossil fuels, particularly biomass and hydropower, with a little nuclear energy and a minuscule amount of solar and wind power. Two rebukes to the article came to my attention this afternoon. (There may certainly be more out there, and more on top of that from his supporters.) Barbara Finamore, who is the country director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, contends that certain figures that Lomborg used were outdated, and did not correctly portray what’s happening in the country particularly in regard to wind power. In a letter to the editor in the Post, she writes: In 2010, China invested $45 billion in wind power (more than the entire U.S. clean-energy economy), which led to 17 gigawatts of new installations (more than three times that installed by the United States). By 2010, 31 out of 41 gigawatts of national wind installations were<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=4573&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How China Can Take the Wheel on Electric Cars</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/04/20/how-china-can-take-the-wheel-on-electric-cars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in the U.S. there&#8217;s a lot of excitement that 2011 could really be the Year of the Electric Car. GM is coming out with its plug-in model the Volt, Nissan has the all-electric Leaf and Ford has announced a line of plug-ins, hybrids and electrics. Throw in outside-the-box ideas like the Israeli startup Better Place, along with government support from the White House, and we could be looking at a battery-powered transport future. But guess what–that transformation might happen somewhere else first. A new study prepared for the World Bank Transport Office in Beijing makes the case that China stands to lead and benefit from the global race to move to electric cars, perhaps faster than anywhere else—though significant obstacles could block that progress. &#8220;I don&#8217;t necessarily see China running away with this,&#8221; says Oliver Hazimeh, the head of the global e-mobility practice and a partner at PRTM, a management consultancy that put together the report. &#8220;But given the amount of money and resources that China can push at this, they will be extremely important.&#8221; The study analyzes Beijing&#8217;s New Energy Vehicles Program, as well as the Ten Cities, Ten Thousand Vehicles Programs—to government initiatives launched in 2009 to create pilot programs for electric cars in a number of major Chinese cities. There&#8217;s no shortage of money behind the programs—China is committed to spending $15 billion on building and selling electric cars over the next five years. The government is already providing consumer incentives for Chinese drivers who want to go electric, and there is significant investment on research and development for electric cars—especially in battery technology. &#8220;They&#8217;ve allowed regions to do some experimenting, to see what strategies might work best,&#8221; says Hazimeh. But money isn&#8217;t really the obstacle to the development of electric cars in China. There are policy and logistical challenges—there&#8217;s little infrastructure for charging private vehicles, even less than what&#8217;s available in the U.S. And then there&#8217;s the issue of customer acceptance. China is still in the middle stages of the automobile transition. The newly rich<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=4497&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Transportation</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://science.time.com/category/transportation/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>China on Food Safety: Seriously, This Time We Mean It.</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/03/07/china-on-food-safety-seriously-this-time-we-mean-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 06:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the National People’s Congress kicks off in Beijing, Chinese leaders’ priorities for the nation were rolled out over the weekend in the 11th five-year plan (2011-2015). Among those priorities, which include pledges to improve pollution, increase clean energy production and reduce the nation’s yawning wealth gap, is tackling the food safety problems that have plagued Chinese consumers, threatened Chinese exports and humiliated the government for the past three years. On Thursday, NPC spokesman Zhao Qizheng announced that violators of China&#8217;s food safety laws will now face heavier punishment, including death. (Overall, the number of capital crimes was reduced from 68 to 55.) Ironically, Zhao also called on the press to help monitor the food safety chain going forward. We’ll assume he means the Chinese media – not the foreign reporters who are being tailed and beat up these days. In November 2009, China executed two men for their roles in peddling melamine-tainted milk powder that resulted in the death of at least six infants and the sickening of 300,000 more the previous fall. The so-called melamine milk scandal led to the establishment of the national food safety commission. In 2009, the nation’s first comprehensive food safety law was also passed, but questions were immediately raised over whether the complicated reforms could be effectively implemented across China&#8217;s vast bureaucracy. (See TIME&#8217;s top 10 product recalls.) Indeed, the problems have continued. Last year, there were, according to the National Food Safety Regulating Work Office, at least 130,000 cases involving food safety issues and 248 arrests. Last week, I wrote about the revelation in a new, government backed study that at least 12 million tons of Chinese rice are likely to be contaminated with heavy metals, and there are more appetite-suppressing examples where that came from. China’s leadership admitted over the weekend meetings that it is “very much embarrassed” by the nation’s track record. According to the Beijing Times, Vice Premier Wang Qishan said the laudable achievement of finally producing enough to feed China has become overshadowed by the quality of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=3942&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Regulation</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://science.time.com/category/regulation/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>If You Must Build A Mega Dam: Lessons for Brazil from China</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/03/03/if-you-must-build-a-mega-dam-lessons-for-brazil-from-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week environmental activists in Brazil – and Hollywood – were celebrating a victory over what is slated to become the world’s third largest hydroelectric plant. A Brazilian court in Para state ruled last Friday that the state-backed project, key to President’s Dilma Rousseff’s infrastructure push to support Brazil’s continued economic growth, has not met environmental requirements and has halted construction and financing of the project in the Amazon rainforest. Critics of the dam, including Avator director James Cameron and star Sigourney Weaver, say that the Belo Monte dam, by flooding a 200 square miles area of the Xingu River that feeds into the Amazon, will displace locals living in flooded zones and negatively impact the livelihood of indigenous communities downstream who depend on fishing. U.S.-based Amazon Watch says that the forests flooded by the dam will release large amounts of methane, negating any positive implications of building such a vast low carbon emissions energy source. The victory, however, was short. Yesterday, a court overruled the stay on construction, and gave Belo Monte the green light to start building. (UPDATED.) The project, whose pricetag has been put anywhere from $11 to $26 billion, will have the capacity to deliver more than 11,000 MW of low-emissions energy to a country whose power surplus will run out by 2014, according to Brazil’s EPE (Energy Research Company), the public company that plans the nation’s power projects. “Belo Monte enables Brazil to meet two goals: to provide electric power to boost economic growth while at the same time avoiding emissions of greenhouse gases,” EPE president Mauricio Tolmasquim told reporters in February. He estimates that, in deference to environment concerns, Belo Monte will only regularly generate about 40% of its total capacity, roughly the amoung of MW the  nation needs to sustain annual growth of 5%. From where I sit in Hong Kong, this sounds pretty familiar. In 1994, when China started construction on the controversial Three Gorges Dam, Beijing, too, recognized the urgency of generating massive amounts of power to fuel its economic growth.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=3910&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China Environment Minister: Yep, It&#8217;s Bad</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/03/01/china-environment-minister-yep-its-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 05:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s Environment Minster has published an essay on the web site of his young agency warning that if the nation doesn&#8217;t do more to mitigate the environmental consequences of the nation&#8217;s economic expansion, things won&#8217;t be expanding for long. Zhou Shengxian writes: &#8220;In China&#8217;s thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today. &#8230; The depletion, deterioration and exhaustion of resources and the worsening of ecological environment have become bottlenecks and grave impediments to the nation&#8217;s economic and social development.&#8221; (via the New York Times)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=3884&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy Metal: 12 Million Tons of Chinese Rice Contaminated</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/02/23/heavy-metal-millions-of-tons-of-chinese-rice-contaminated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ugh. Hong Kong’s English daily South China Morning Post has a distinctly unsavory dispatch from the Chinese media this morning: Government scientists have released research that millions of acres of Chinese agricultural land and over 12 million tons of Chinese grain are contaminated by toxic metal pollution, according to this week’s edition of the China Economic Weekly, a state-run magazine. Last week, a separate article reported that 10% of Chinese rice contained excess cadmium, a heavy metal known to cause cancer. Beijing quickly responded to last week&#8217;s news by announcing it was re-focusing its efforts to reign in heavy metal pollution over the weekend, identifying 4500 operations across the nation, including chemical manufacturers, battery manufacturers and mines, to be put under stricter controls. Today’s SCMP article says the farmland pollution is particularly bad in China’s southwestern Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi provinces. The polluting effects of China&#8217;s rapid industrialization are hardly news. But the industrial clusters cropping up in the nation’s farm belts present new problems. Food safety in China in the past few years has primarily been framed as a problem of corruption in the supply chain, as was the case in the melamine scandal, or the overuse of pesticides, insecticides and chemical fertilizers in agriculture. Crop contamination by heavy metals from nearby industry that soak into the soil did not start this year — in fact the rice samples used to determine the 10% contamination rate were taken back in 2007 — but the scope of the problem is just beginning to be fully comprehended. The domestic health ramifications of this information will take even longer to determine. China’s has a growing list of what have come to be known as “cancer villages” — towns next door to badly regulated factories where myriad forms of pollution have caused high cancer rates in residents. In January, to name one example, a battery factory was forced to close after more than 200 children living in its vicinity were diagnosed with high levels of lead in their blood in Anhui province, just<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=3785&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Regulation</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://science.time.com/category/regulation/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Food in China: Weather, Wheat and Worry</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/02/15/food-in-china-weather-wheat-and-worry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China is a nation of superlatives, and its role in weather manipulation is no exception. Beijing runs the world’s largest program in cloud seeding – the process of imbuing clouds with silver iodide to generate precipitation, usually in times of drought. China rolled out its cloud seeding technology to clear the skies of dust and pollution before the Beijing Olympics; last week, the rocket launchers and aircraft were mobilized again – this time to battle a drought in the nation’s wheat belt. Evidently, the world&#8217;s biggest cloud seeding program just got bigger. Yesterday, China’s meteorological agency announced that it had received over $1 million from the Ministry of Finance to improve its anti-drought work in rainmaking. Though Beijing’s enthusiasm for the technology has been known to go astray, last week’s efforts are credited with bringing at least some new snow and moisture to parts of the dessicated region. For many around the world nervously watching China’s wheat crop, that’s good news. As the world’s largest wheat producer, China is self-sufficient in wheat, but if this year’s harvests don’t deliver, there is a possibility that Beijing could burn through its significant reserves and have to start importing wheat, driving global prices up even further. (Yesterday, pushed up by floods in Australia and an earlier drought in Russia, wheat prices reached their highest mark since the 2008 record prices.) How seriously the possibility of large-scale imports in China should be taken has been the subject of much debate in the last few days. Last week, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a report (the first of its kind on China in 15 years) that the drought in the north, which has been going strong since fall, has affected about up to 60% of the nation&#8217;s wheat crop. The report reads: According to official estimates some 5.16 million hectares out of the total of about 14 million hectares under winter wheat may have been affected in these provinces.  The drought has reportedly affected some 2.57 million people and 2.79 million<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=3658&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Weather</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://science.time.com/category/weather/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Bangladesh Climate Migration Happening — Now</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/02/10/study-bangladesh-climate-migration-happening-%e2%80%94-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m in Dhaka this week, where I have been doing some work between my long hours becoming intimate with the Bangladeshi capital’s epic traffic. The traffic here — an unholy tangle of rickshaws, auto-rickshaws, buses, trucks, cars and motorbikes — puts everything I have seen in Jakarta, India, Bangkok and Los Angeles (please!) to shame. It&#8217;s loud, it’s chaotic, and mostly, it’s not going anywhere, literally or figuratively. The good thing is, nobody ever expects you to be on time. The bad thing is, nobody is ever on time. Now that I’ve gotten that out of my system, I can get to my point. Despite that fact that sitting in a traffic jam here may feel like it’s taking years off your life, (or, on the other hand, that you only have minutes to live), the country is one of the lowest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world, along with Ethiopia, Haiti, Congo, Cambodia and others. And, rather unfairly, it is also one of the nations predicted to be at the earliest and greatest risk from drought, rising sea levels, and flooded river basins — all potential negative effects of those gases. Bangladesh is a low-lying country that is packed tight. It is one of the most densely populated nations on the planet – the only countries with higher population densities are extremely small places like Monaco, Hong Kong and Vatican City. Those countries have populations ranging from a little over 800 (total) to 7 million. Bangladesh has squeezed over 160 million into its 56,000 square miles. That means that as parts of the south Asian nation are already becoming uninhabitable from rising sea levels and increasingly devastating natural disasters, a lot more people are affected, and they have nowhere to go but places where there are already too many people. (See our video on disaster refugees moving into Dhaka’s slums.) A study released this week by the Asia Development Bank (ADB), which is heading an international project figuring out how to deal with climate migration, reiterates the problems<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=3599&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Politics: Should We Stop Freaking Out About China and Clean Tech?</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/01/21/politics-should-we-stop-freaking-out-about-china-and-clean-tech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote earlier this week, energy and climate were going to on the agenda when Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Obama met in Washington. The countries are the number one and two carbon emitters in the world, major energy consumers and global leaders in clean tech manufacturing. If the world is going to come to grips with the climate challenge—and shift towards cleaner sources of energy—the U.S. and China are going to have to lead the way. Now that the Washington lovefest is done and the poached Maine lobster has been eaten, however, how much was really accomplished on climate and energy? Not so much, suggests Ben Jervey of GOOD: For all the anticipation, though, it seems that military and economic issues have dominated the talks, and the potentially tense discussions of energy and climate have been back-burnered. Yesterday, the two leaders released a joint statement saying that they &#8220;view climate change and energy security as two of the greatest challenges of our time.&#8221; Well, obviously. Business leaders from China and the U.S., though, took advantage of the summit to announce a series of energy deals, including a $7.5 billion collaboration between the aluminum maker Alcoa and China Power Investment Corp., and a partnership between American Electric Power and China Huaneng on carbon-capture technology. Energy Secretary Steven Chu took the chance to advance energy research partnerships with his Chinese counterparts that have been ongoing for the past year. Collaboration is a must, as Chu wrote in the Huffington Post: Cooperation with China on clean energy is good for Americans and good for the world. As the world&#8217;s largest producers of energy, consumers of energy and greenhouse gas emitters, the energy and climate challenge cannot be solved without the United States and China. What we do &#8212; or do not do &#8212; in the coming decades matters to the entire world. Additionally, by collaborating with China on clean energy research and development, we can bring down the costs of clean energy technologies for families and businesses. We can promote<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=3400&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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