Report Ties Coal Plants to China’s Water Shortage
A new report from Greenpeace on the coal industry’s impact on global water resources has...
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China Set to Step Up Control Over NGOs
In April last year, The Economist published a pair of reports on China’s cautious...
Smog Journeys: Air Pollution Inspires Film & Novel
This winter, like years past, has seen Beijing and other Chinese cities blanketed in a thick cover...
Nearly Half of Chinese Food Plants Fail Inspections
DPA International reports that approximately half of all Chinese food plants inspected in 2014 has...
Ministry of Truth: Greenpeace on SOE “Water Grab”
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and bloggers often refer to these instructions as “Directives from the Ministry...
Fatal Misperception: How Unsafe Is Chinese Food?
At the Council on Foreign Relations, Yanzhong Huang challenges official claims that China’s food safety problems are overblown, and prescribes a more extensive, stringent and streamlined regime of food inspections. Is...
Tainted Chinese Herbs Are Harming, Not Healing
A Greenpeace investigation of Chinese herbal products (PDF) reveals that high concentrations of pesticides are polluting the environment and making China’s traditional medicine harmful to human health. From Sue-Lin Wong...
China: Electronic Wastebasket of the World?
As the world’s largest producer of electronic products, China also plays a key role in the recycling and disposal of e-waste. From old computer parts to refrigerators, a large share of the world’s old electronics end...
Public Fury as Environment Minister Keeps Job
While China’s new leaders stress their commitment to environmental protection, Zhou Shengxian’s continued position as environment minister has provoked public discontent. Pan Yue, a prominent critic of economic...
Water Shortages: Desalination vs. Conservation
Seawater desalination may offer a promising supplement to diversion of freshwater to China’s dry north-east, especially as severe droughts in the south place the latter’s basic logic in question. Critics argue,...
SOEs, Rule of Law Among Hurdles for Clean Air Push
Beijing’s acting mayor has announced an array of new measures to combat air pollution in the city, following heavy smog that seeped hundreds of points off the scale this month. From Xinhua: The capital will take 180,000...
Ma Jun: “A Huge Step Forward” in Rio?
The final document that emerged from the Rio+20 Earth Summit prompted vocal disappointment from many quarters, with Jonathan Watts going as far as to compare the conference with a 1930s League of Nations assembly. From Watts and...
Wuhan’s Yellow Smoke Shows Public Mistrust
On Monday, Wuhan was covered in a thick yellow fog as levels of 10-micron particulate matter (PM10) climbed to peaks of over .6 milligrams per cubic metre, four times the national daily average. The cause of the extreme...
Pollution In Fashion and Under Rugs
Outsourced pollution is a convenient effect of outsourced manufacturing. A paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last year found that once it was taken into account, developed countries’ apparent 2%...
Is China Rethinking its Embrace of US-Style Agriculture?
Mother Jones’ Tom Philpott examines recent signs that China may be turning away from agriculture fuelled by antibiotics and genetic modification: Given China’s vast and growing population and increasing appetite for...
Greenpeace Report Links Western Firms to Chinese River Polluters
Greenpeace has released the results of an investigation into water pollution by Chinese textile plants, and is pressuring Western brands such as Nike and Adidas to push for change. From The Guardian: In their one-year...
Li Keqiang Sets Out Energy and Sustainability Priorities
Newly published comments made by Vice Premier Li Keqiang last December outline China’s energy policy priorities, and appear to confirm the introduction of new pollution taxes as part of the country’s 12th Five Year...
Secretive Apple Under Fire from Environmental Groups
A report from a coalition of Chinese environmental groups attacks Apple for excessive secrecy in its supply chain. The company was judged among the least transparent of the 29 tech firms included. Apple trumpets its...
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