目前中国三家最大的采矿企业，包括中国金川集团，正与菲律宾的采矿公司洽谈投资事宜，预算投资将集中在菲律宾棉兰老岛的最东部。
Three of the biggest mining companies in, including Jinchuan Group Ltd., are in talks with companies in the Philippines about possible investments in the country's mining industry, which is concentrated on the easternmost island of Mindanao.
据最近在河北省进行的一项研究显示，中国北部部分地区的地下水位将持续下降，在未来25年内甚至会下降达40米，使该地区的生态危害问题益加严重。
Water tables in some areas of northern China will continue to drop, by as much as 40 metres over the next quarter of a century, according to a recent study in Hebei Province and ecological problems in the region are now expected to escalate.
全球的生产，商业和消费在不断地增长。世界观察研究所指出伴随着这样的发展趋势是不断退化的生态系统，其中原因就在于我们这个世界的能源供应几乎完全依靠化石燃料。
Global production, commerce and consumption are up. But, says, the Worldwatch Institute, such trends are set against “a backdrop of ecological decline in a world powered overwhelmingly by fossil fuels”.
日前，有呼吁促请中国和英国的药物研究和开发公司携手合作，致力寻求取代中国传统以濒危野生动物入药的替代品。
UK and Chinese drug research and development firms have been urged to band together to develop alternatives to the practice of using endangered animal parts to feed the vast traditional Chinese medicine industry.
著名经济学家马中说, 绿色GDP(国内生产总值)的计算是一个复杂的过程,从而专家和学者对其计算方法和功用很少苟同。他认为, 绿色GDP实际上是一种体系，它是把可能造成环境的损失纳入到生产成本中，从而在生产造成环境污染之前而不是之后来处理这样的损失。
Calculating green GDP is a complex business which few can agree upon, according to renowned economist Ma Zhong. More practical, he argues, is a system that makes organisations and businesses account for environmental costs during production – before, not after environmental losses occur.
中国建设部副司长仇保兴表示，中国的城市在2010年前将会全部设有污水处理厂，目标是城市污水处理率要达到70％。
All Chinese cities must have operating sewage treatment plants by 2010, with 70 percent of urban sewage treated before being discharged into the environment, the deputy minister of construction Qiu Baoxing has said.
日前证据显示亚马逊地区有大量的原始森林遭受破坏以便进行耕作。欧洲各大超市、食品制造商和连锁快餐店，包括了麦当劳在内，近日声明禁用在该地区非法种植的大豆。
Leading European supermarkets, food manufacturers and fast-food chains, including McDonald's, have pledged not to use soya illegally grown in the Amazon region, in response to evidence that large areas of virgin forest are being felled for the crop.
英国环境、食品及农村事务大臣戴维•米利班德表示，为更有效减低全球暖化，英国有可能限制个人二氧化碳排放量，并容许节能者出售他们的碳排放允许量。
Britain may require individuals to limit the carbon dioxide they produce to combat global warming -- and permit energy-savers to profit by selling their carbon allowances, the environment secretary David Miliband said.
