David Biello of the Scientific American writes on world carbon dioxide emissions. China, at the front of the pack with 1.8 billion metric tons of CO2 emissions, is of particular concern. Despite a slowing global economy, carbon...
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The Ministry of Environmental Protection is strengthening measures to hold polluting companies accountable for land pollution amid increasing public health hazards triggered by soil pollution. They will be held...
Read MoreAbout 100,000 people in the southern China manufacturing base Foshan went without water for six hours this weekend after an oil slick contaminated its local river, threatening nearby cities as well. Terra Daily reports: Local...
Read MoreNational Public Radio broadcast the second in a five part series about the Yellow River. It includes an audio slideshow: In China, there’s a saying that a dipperful of water from the Yellow River is seven-tenths mud. The river contains more silt than any other waterway in the world, gaining its name from the loamy, […]
Read MoreQi Xu is a journalist for China Environmental Times. The following article is translated by ChinaDialogue: Soil contamination has grown unnoticed across China’s landscape. Now, reports Qi Xu, a major geochemical survey is under way, designed to diagnose the extent and severity of the problem. Food safety is a basic need for any population, yet […]
Read MoreAP reports on the latest protest by villagers angered by industrial pollution: Police in southern China arrested 10 farmers embroiled in a dispute with a paper mill over pollution they say is killing their crops and fouling their water sources, villagers and media reports said Friday… The dispute reflects a common complaint in China: Industries […]
Read MoreFrom The Herald: China is launching a multibillion-dollar effort to cut pollution and soaring coal and oil demand, by raising energy efficiency in flats and offices. Authorities are tightening standards and threatening to revoke developers’ business licences if they fail to comply, said Qiu Baoxing, a Deputy Construction Minister… China is one of the biggest […]
Read MoreFrom China.org: Because of the grass quality, golf courses require several times more water than normally used. And to keep the grass up to golfing standards, pesticides and other chemical preparations are used heavily on it. Relevant statistics show that over 50 chemical preparations are applied to golf course grass a year. And some seep […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China is the world’s largest sulphur dioxide polluter, emitting nearly 26m tons of the gas in 2005. This was a 27% increase since 2000 and coincided with a rise in coal consumption, the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) said. The gas contributes to acid rain, which damages buildings, soil and crops, and […]
Read MoreFrom the Associated Press: The murky green Dasha River has been dirty for decades, polluted by coal mines and steel mills that make it fit only for watering livestock and crops downstream. Then a truck overturned on a windy, mountain road this month, dumping at least 60 tons of potentially carcinogenic coal tar into the […]
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