DAVID GREENE, HOST: This summer, a record-setting dead zone has appeared in the Gulf of Mexico. This is a zone where water does not have enough oxygen for fish to survive. One major cause of this is pollution from farms. And this has provoked a debat

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President Obama's decrying what he calls the ridiculous spectacle of executives of BP and other companies, pointing fingers this week over one of the worst oil spills in US history. Following a cabinet meeting at the White House today, the president

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China's securities regulator has announced that it will resume initial public offerings by companies after halting the fundraising mechanism since July. The suspension was part of emergency measures to contain a massive meltdown that sent the stock m

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BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- The lengthy name of China's reorganized media regulatory body is expected to be shortened in response to public complaints, the secretariat of the annual parliamentary session said Wednesday. The Chinese name of the Stat

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GENEVA, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision on Sunday amended the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) proposed two years ago to help banks survive difficult times. The changes to the definition of the LCR, a key component of the

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Every spring, the Mississippi River dumps tens of thousands of tons of nutrient runoff into the Gulf of Mexico. Add temperature, current and wind to that pollution, and you have the Western Hemisphere's largest stretch of oxygen-poor watersa so-calle

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