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At this time of year the lake bed freezes into waves of solid mud...It is a “tailing lake”, where toxic rare earth elements from a mine 100 miles away are stored for further processing. Seepage from the lake has poisoned the surrounding farmland. “The...
Tags: rare earth, China, Baotou, Environment, Chemical elements, Hybrid vehicle, Inner Mongolia, Neodymium, Lanthanides, Rare earth element, Erbium
Mongolians have succeeded in punching a hole through a large part of the Great Wall of China. About 90 metres of the wall in a remote part of Inner Mongolia has been irreparably damaged by gold prospectors. ''We discovered what had happened a couple of...
Tags: great wall, China, Shanghai, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, Mongolia, Great Wall of China, Ming Dynasty
The Great Wall of China (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: "long city/fortress") or (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng; literally "The long wall of 10,000 Li) is a series of stone and earthen...
Tags: Qin Shi Huang, Chinese Empire, China, Beijing, Emperor, Inner Mongolia, Qin Dynasty, Li, Great Wall of China, Shanhaiguan, Autonomous regions of the Peoples Republic of China, Han Chinese, Xiongnu, great walls, Hospitality Recreation
This region of Inner Mongolia, home to one of the biggest deserts in China, is being transformed into the site of a pine forest that will stretch across its low hills as far as the eye can see. The local government’s tree-planting program is part of a...
Tags: China Center, Ordos, Beijing, Mr. Hu, Mr. Du, alternate energy, China, Photovoltaics, Inner Mongolia, Ordos Desert, Renewable energy in China, Biomass, Renewable energy, Science and technology in the People's Republic of China, Environment
Another man found the drunkard there and called the firefighters, who rescued him from the toilet pit and took him to a hospital in Hohhot, the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, reports the China Daily.
Tags: toilet pit, India, New Delhi, Inner Mongolia, Pit toilet, Hohhot, Toilets, Toilet, Human Interest
But the future of global emissions, and global warming looks increasingly more likely to be set in industrial powerhouses like this than in the negotiating halls of Copenhagen. While the world's countries struggle to reach a treaty to defeat climate change,...
Tags: China, Ordos, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, Shangwan, Shenhua, Inner Mongolia, biggest coal, climate change, carbon capture, Beijing, Fossil fuel power plant, Carbon capture and storage, Fossil fuel, Greenhouse gas, Clean coal, Coal power in China, Coal, Environment
THE HAY Joshua Kucera 11/10/09 Part Two in a Series The newest team to mount a search for the grave of Genghis Khan is relying on state-of-the-art technology that combines massive computing power with a creative crowd-sourcing technique. This innovative...
First Solar Inc said on Tuesday it plans to build the world's largest solar plant in China in the first major foray by a US company into the Asian nation's fast growing alternative energy sector. Under a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese government,...
Tags: China, First Solar Inc, Inner Mongolia, power plant, solar plant
Contaminated drinking water has sickened more than 2,600 people in northern China, including 59 who were hospitalized with fevers, diarrhea, stomach aches and vomiting, state media reported Wednesday. Heavy rains caused contaminants to seep into a water...
Tags: water supply, Inner Mongolia, Chifeng, China, chifeng city
Inner Mongolia - As the Blue Force seized the high ground on both sides, trapping the Red Army between them, John Schurtz, a military attach at the US Embassy in Beijing felt his heart pounding. "Today is a good day to be the blue commander. Deployment...
Tags: Inner Mongolia