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Scientists are calling for the long-term risks of genetically modified crops to be reassessed

2010-05-14 00:00:00

May 14, 2010

A Chinese environmental update

Scientists are calling for the long-term risks of genetically modified crops to be reassessed after field studies revealed an explosion in pest numbers around farms growing modified strains of cotton, The Guardian reported. In northern China, millions of hectares of farmland have been infested following the adoption of Bt cotton, made by the US biotech giant Monsanto.

China has become the biggest auto market in the world as increasing numbers of ordinary people buy their first cars, Global Times said. But as the new vehicles add to road congestion and air pollution worsens, car-sharing clubs are presenting advantages.

The country will spend more than US$146 billion to triple the size of its underground train system over the next five years, Bloomberg News quoted China’s top economic planning agency as saying.

Amid interest in China’s prospects for competing successfully, for the first time, for big US infrastructure projects, transportation secretary Ray LaHood wrapped up an Asian trip that focused heavily on fast trains, the Associated Press reported. LaHood visited Hong Kong, which has approved a US$8.6 billion plan to link the territory with China’s fast-growing national high-speed rail network.

Chemical extracts from cigarette butts -- so toxic that they kill fish -- can be used to protect steel pipes from rusting, Reuters said, citing a study in China. The researchers discovered the anti-corrosion effect after applying the extracts to N80 steel, the type used in oil pipes.

In China’s latest foray into Canada’s oil patch, the country beefed up its oil-sands interests with a massive cash injection in Penn West Energy Trust, Canwest News Service reported.

Chinese fishery authorities have released 400,000 salmon fry into the Tumen River, the border between China, North Korea and Russia, to conserve the region’s natural ecology and to help increase fishermen’s income, according to ifeng.com.

The China Development Bank offered to provide US$1 billion for a planned 600-megawatt hydroelectric station in Zambia and proposed a Chinese company, Sinohydro, to develop the project, Agence France-Presse said.

Chinese scientists say the drought in Yunnan province – the worst for many years -- marks one of the strongest case studies so far of how climate change and poor environmental practice can combine to create a disaster, Nature reported.

Scientists have identified two genes that appear to explain why Tibetans are able to live comfortably in rarefied air at very high altitudes, Reuters said, citing a study published in Science by researchers from China and the United States.

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