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Earth Moves (or not) Toward a Sustainable Future
January 10, 2014 11:14 AM
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Cars are seen in thick smog in Beijing on Jan. 31, 2013. Air pollution is killing up to 500,000 people a year in China according to the country’s former health minister.
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Wind turbines of the Donghai Bridge Offshore Wind Farm are seen near Shanghai. While China is the world’s largest polluter, it is also the world’s largest producer of wind energy, and hopes to double its production over the next six years.
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New high resolution maps show the world is losing 50 football fields a minute of forested land. These forests were razed in southwest Cameroon for a palm oil plantation. (Center for Environment and Development Cameroon)
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The Bonn Challenge is a global movement launched at a ministerial conference in Bonn in 2011 to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2020. People work on a reforestation project in the Atlantic Forest region of Silva Jardim, Brazil.
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