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The Rising Dragon’s Environmental Disaster

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Nov 22, 2006
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Its nose-curling stench hits you even before you see the floating carpet of green algae and a dense matting of water hyacinth. Once a beauty spot praised by poets, Dianchi Lake, around Kunming, the capital of subtropical Yunnan province, shows the cost to China of its frantic growth.

“There are fewer fish and they keep getting smaller. They don’t taste g…

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