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Chinese Environmental News

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Pollution in China: an end to the environmental crisis?

Despite making some progress, the war on pollution still needs to be won
Sep 24, 2019 (WiC )

Who wants to move to Linfen? Not many people, it seemed, when we first mentioned the city in the coal heartlands of Shanxi ten years ago. Not that you could blame them: Linfen was regularly described as the most polluted place in China. In ...

A sustainable advantage?

Groundbreaking event looks at where China stands in the green economy
Sep 13, 2019 (WiC 466)

Some researchers believe the fires raging in the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, may have their root cause in the fraying trade relations between the US and China. The logic goes that tit-for-tat tariffs have decimated US soybean and ...

Too big to fail

Operator of Three Gorges Dam rebuffs online rumours about safety
Jul 19, 2019 (WiC 460)

Apoor quality image or evidence that the world largest hydroelectric dam is structurally unsound? That’s what Chinese netizens were asking earlier this month after photos from Google Earth appeared to show that the outer wall of the Three ...

Why an emissions database is needed in the GBA
Jul 12, 2019 (WiC 459)

Pollution is a problem that doesn’t respect borders, as American scientists highlighted again in a study of their national parks two years ago. Ozone levels were well above normal in the summer months in places like Yellowstone, Yosemite and ...

All sorts of rubbish

Shanghai’s citizens struggle with garbage policy
Jul 5, 2019 (WiC 458)

Shanghai is often associated with the finer things in life like beautifully tailored clothes and Michelin-starred food. But conversation in China’s financial capital has been dominated by something a little less refined in recent days: ...

Chemical reaction

Deadly explosion shakes Jiangsu
Mar 29, 2019 (WiC 446)

What will it take to end China’s terrible record of chemical accidents? That’s what many were asking in the wake of a powerful explosion in Jiangsu’s Yancheng city last week which killed 78 and injured another 550. Even the government ...

Noxious neighbours

A chemical spill in Fujian casts nearby fishing villages into crisis
Nov 30, 2018 (WiC 434)

Before the district of Quangang in Fujian province emerged as a hub for refining petrochemicals many of the locals made their livings by fishing. Once the refinery opened, it was an uncomfortable coexistence. Tankers queued up next to edible ...

Farmers’ crops destroyed in huge Shandong flood
Aug 31, 2018 (WiC 422)

The world deadliest dam disaster happened in 1975 when Henan’s Banqiao Dam collapsed, killing 26,000 people (according to official figures; others estimate as high as 170,000). The government called it a “natural disaster”, citing the ...

The tyranny of trash

Authorities flag plan to help cities escape a ‘garbage siege’
Jul 27, 2018 (WiC 419)

Online shopping, meal delivery services and takeaway drinks. As consumer trends change in China, so does the amount of garbage that the country produces. With rubbish dumps starting to encircle many of the nation’s major cities, the ...

Cockroaches to solve China’s kitchen waste problem?
Jul 27, 2018 (WiC 419)

The Chinese produce some 60 million tonnes of kitchen waste a year. Some of it is burnt, some is composted, but most ends up in landfills where it threatens to morph into toxic sludge as it mixes with other types of garbage. Chinese farmers ...

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