Polluting Plants Shut by Officials Found Still in Use
A recent round of inspection checks by China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has...
industrial pollution
Wang Jiuliang: Ghost Towns and Shattered Land
Photographer Wang Jiuliang uncovers the monumental waste created by development and progress. In...
Officials Dispute Severity of School Scandal Illnesses
China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday that nearly 500 students at Changzhou Foreign...
Hundreds Ill at “Toxic School” Near Chemical Plants
According to state television broadcaster CCTV, hundreds of students at Changzhou Foreign...
Study: China’s Air Pollution Kills 1.6 Million a Year
A Berkeley Earth study of newly released air quality data from 1,500 sites across East Asia has...
Environmental Protest Continues for Fifth Day
At RFA, Wei Ling and Wen Yuqing report that a protest against a paraxylene (PX) plant rumored to...
Landmark Case on Lead Poisoning in Children Begins
On Friday, a court in Hunan Province began hearing a landmark pollution lawsuit filed by a group...
Government Policy Clearing the Air in Some Areas
While China’s environmental crisis has increasingly been a focus of popular discontent in...
Drawing the News: The PX Equation
Following an explosion at a chemical plant in Fujian, cartoonist Rebel Pepper has translated...
Incinerator Protests Signal New Environmental Consciousness
Over the weekend, thousands of residents of Boluo County, Guangdong took to the streets to protest...
China to Scrap Millions of Cars to Ease Pollution
Jennifer Duggan at The Guardian reports that the Chinese government has announced plans to take up...
Filmmaker Gives Voice to Acts of Rage in Today’s China
China has seen a series of bloody incidents in recent years, most recently including a string of...
Thousands of Dead Fish Found After Toxic Spill
Reuters reports that thousands of fish have been found dead in a river outside of Wuhan after a...
Satan Lucky’s Floating World
Danwei’s Alexander Ye interviews artist Satan Lucky, whose monstrous embodiments of aspects...
Mining Tibet, Poisoning China
At The Asian Review of Books, the University of Sydney’s Kerry Brown reviews Gabriel Lafitte’s forthcoming book, Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World, available October 8th: A few...
Abandoned Steel Mills Threaten Public Health
Falling prices, weak demand and mounting debt in China’s steel industry have led to a series of closures and mergers in recent years, leaving many mills abandoned. At China Dialogue, Gao Shengke reports that health risks...
Explosion at PX Plant Reignites Safety Concerns
In 1997, widespread protests against a paraxylene (PX) plant in Xiamen, Fujian forced officials to change their plans and launched the NIMBY movement in China. The plant was moved to inland Zhangzhou, and was completed and...
Rural Pollution: China’s Bad Earth
At The Wall Street Journal, Josh Chin and Brian Spegele explore the environmental deterioration of China’s countryside, which threatens to undermine both the security of the country’s food supply and the legitimacy...
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