Chinese authorities have reportedly arrested more than 100 Tibetan Buddhist monks and other residents of largely Tibetan Dege County in Sichuan Province, following protests against a vast dam project that would destroy six...
The Chinese government recently announced that nearly one-fifth of food and consumer products distributed domestically are unsafe. Meanwhile, the foreign media continues to focus on the safety of Chinese exports. The Foreign Policy blog presents a chart of statistics on China’s agricultural exports to the U.S., and crop pollution within China. The same blog links […]
From China Dialogue: During my recent visits to villages in the Chinese provinces of Henan, Hebei, Tianjin and Shandong, I saw the phenomenon of “white pollution” with my own eyes. This “white terror” is the sea of plastic that covers our land and blows on the breeze along the highways. This plastic membrane used in […]
From the BBC: More than 10% of China’s farm land is polluted, posing a “severe threat” to the nation’s food production, state media reports. Arable land shrank by nearly 307,000 hectares (760,000 acres) in the first 10 months of 2006, government officials were quoted as saying. Excessive fertiliser use, polluted water, heavy metals and solid […]
From Reuters: About a tenth of China’s vast farmland is polluted, threatening public health and the country’s fragile eco-system, the South China Morning Post said on Wednesday. About 12 million tonnes of crops had to be destroyed each year because of contamination by heavy metals, the newspaper quoted Zhou Shengxian, director of China’s State Environmental […]
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