At The Atlantic, Tea Leaf Nation’s Charles Zhu interviews Michael Zhao of China Air Daily, which uses photos and satellite images to illustrate day-to-day changes and longer term trends in air quality. You also include...
Read MoreAFP reports quiet in Qidong amid a heavy police presence following Saturday’s violent protests against a planned pipeline. “People don’t dare to go out in the streets today,” said a local resident, who...
Read MoreChina Daily reported on Tuesday that, according to government figures, nearly ten billion tons of industrial wastewater and domestic sewage were poured directly into Guangdong’s rivers last year: More than 9.5 billion tons...
Read MoreAir quality in Beijing is an increasingly well known problem, but trust in official data is low and the US Embassy’s @BeijingAir Twitter service has its own shortcomings. A pair of Carnegie Mellon University graduate...
Read MoreThe recent large-scale protests over a proposed molybdenum copper plant in Shifang, Sichuan resulted in the cancellation of the plans by the local government. But residents are still angry about the government’s lack of...
Read MoreChinese environmental activist Ma Jun and Ikal Angelei, a Kenyan campaigner against a China-backed dam in Ethiopia, are among the recipients of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize. From the Goldman Prize’s...
Read MoreOutsourced 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%...
Read MoreChina has long been known for its exports as Chinese goods and labor are spread throughout the world. Now, another Chinese export is making headlines, as air pollutants from East Asia are found at the ground-level in the Western...
Read MoreAt Smart Planet, Tom Hancock reports on the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs’ use of Google Maps to catalogue pollution cases: A crowd of blue markers covering the map show the location of each firm, and the...
Read MoreA report released by Shanghai’s municipal government over the weekend identifies a battery plant run by U.S.-based Johnson Controls Inc. as the chief culprit in a September lead contamination incident which sickened 49...
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