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The Forum regularly posts news articles of interest here from a variety of sources and news outlets. You can check back here or view the most recent ones from the homepage. We also archive these articles here, for those doing research, with news going back to 2006. Use the menu on the right to explore the archived articles.

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The Carbon Tax: A Moral Issue

April 8, 2009
Father Paul Mayer
The Huffington Post

Yu Dan and China's return to Confucius

August 29, 2007
By Sheila Melvin
New York Times

BEIJING — China spent the greater part of the last century struggling to become a modern nation. This often-brutal, but ultimately successful, quest led it to pillory its own intellectual heritage and embrace such foreign philosophies as communism and capitalism.

But after so many years spent looking...

Religion and the environment in China

October 26, 2006
By Martin Palmer
China Dialogue

Religion can play an important role in protecting the earth’s natural heritage, says Martin Palmer, who reports on the Buddhists and Daoists committed to conserving China’s sacred mountains and wild animals.