Warning on bulldozing hills for Chinese cities

By Louise Watt

Published June 5, 2014 1:47am ET

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Warning on bulldozing hills for Chinese cities — In this photo taken Monday Dec. 10, 2012, earth moving vehicles are seen in Baidaoping area in Lanzhou in northwest China's Gansu province. China's campaign to shave off mountaintops and fill in valleys to make way for cities may come at too high a price in the pollution, erosion and flooding unleashed by the unprecedented redistribution of earth, Chinese researchers warned Thursday June 5, 2014. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT | AP

BEIJING (AP) — China’s campaign to shave off mountaintops and fill in valleys to make way for cities may come at too high a price in the pollution, erosion and flooding unleashed by the unprecedented redistribution of earth, Chinese researchers warned Thursday.

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