China's smog is an increasing cause of public discontent, writes Oliver Wild - and no wonder! New research shows that the country's air pollution is killing over a million people every year. Thanks to China's geography the problem is hard to solve, but the rapid rise of renewables and the slow demise of coal do offer the promise of cleaner, healthier future.
… China's smog kills over a million each year - … | 19th October 2015 News Health Pollution Air China Energy Coal Renewables smog-beijing-cut.jpg China's smog is an increasing cause of public …
Half a century of heavy industrial pollution in eastern China is reducing rainfall, increasing the risk of drought and threatening harvests.
… Air pollution reduces rainfall in China The Ecologist | 1st September 2009 News Pollution China Health Climate Change Air Pollution … factorypolluting.jpg Heavy pollution in China is reducing levels of light rainfall …
Chinese scientists have established beyond doubt that water polluted with nitrite is feeding the worldwide cancer epidemic. But while China is beating cancer by providing new sources of nitrite-free water, Western scientists, regulators and the editors of scientific journals are doing their best to suppress the truth.
… Pure water the key to China's victories in the war against cancer … Kenneth Hsu | 30th March 2015 Activism Health China Pollution Science … the worldwide cancer epidemic. But while China is beating cancer by providing new …
2013 was a bad, bad year for Big Coal, writes Bob Burton. If the coal industry's PR dream is for a stream of exuberant articles selling the story line that coal is clean, cheap and desirable, then 2013 delivered the opposite. 2014 will be even worse.
… News Coal Fossil Fuels Health coal-worker-china.png 2013 was a bad, bad year for Big … Australia - have been scrapped altogether. China's smog casts a deep shadow If there is … the conventional orthodoxy has been that China would underpin a seemingly never-ending …
Two critical markets are pursuing a stressed planet’s renewable resources, presenting policymakers with complex and difficult choices. The Worldwatch Institute’s latest look at Earth’s “vital signs” sees dangerous times ahead as the “sustainability crisis” unfolds. China Dialogue's Maryann Bird investigates
… ahead as the “sustainability crisis” unfolds. China Dialogue's Maryann Bird investigates … host of factors marred the 2006 rice crop. In China, droughts, floods and disease were … states. As incomes have risen in China and other developing countries, diets …
China's growing 'bling' culture has taken off big time, writes Thembi Mutch - yet it is widely reviled among ordinary people who in the face of China's industrial boom hold resolutely to traditional values of economy and frugality, quietly yearning for the old days of clean air and safe, wholesome food to fill their stomachs.
… food Thembi Mutch | 24th April 2015 News China Food Pollution Health Consumerism cycling-beijing-put.jpg China's growing 'bling' culture has taken off … among ordinary people who in the face of China's industrial boom hold resolutely to …
Research from China suggests that even low levels of nitrites in drinking water can cause cancer. Why is the West ignoring the evidence? asks Oliver Tickell
… Oliver Tickell | 9th June 2008 Comment Water China Drinking Water Nitrates Cancer Food And … Health Pollution nitrateslg.jpg Research from China suggests that even low levels of … Esophageal Cancer. Based upon his evidence, China may be divided into three zones: those …
Fed up with fudged statistics Beijing’s increasingly environmentally-aware population has forced it's Government to come clean about air pollution in the city.
… campaigns on the environment are very rare in China – this one has been the biggest and most … for public environmental participation in China. At the heart of the struggle was a … in March of this year, the State Council – China’s highest administrative body – …
In a damning cover up the Chinese government has used its involvement in a World Bank report on the environment to conceal results that show around three quarters of a million people in the country die prematurely each year due to pollution.
… by Chinese pollution 3rd July 2007 News China Pollution Sepa World Bank Industrial … over several years in co-operation with China's State Environment Protection Agency … and stomach, liver and bladder cancers. China's State Environment Protection Agency …
The latest film from the 'Story of Stuff' team focuses on consumer electronics and the problems of waste, recycling and toxic components
… MORE... NEWS Low-cost e-waste recycling in China releasing catalogue of pollutants The … in unregulated and primitive conditions in China and causing significant toxic pollution …
With news that storms caused by smog from Asian cities over the Pacific Ocean will melt Artic ice, Christine Loh, the CEO of Civic Exchange, looks at Hong Kong, where worsening air pollution causes on average four deaths a day.
… industrialisation and urbanisation of south China’s Pearl River Delta region. The delta … to in the 1980s, as Hong Kong capital fed China’s mighty export production capabilities. Even though China now has other export production hubs, …
Sub-Saharan African countries top list of those with most vulnerable water supplies as report warns of 'looming crisis' in both Asia and Africa from pollution and depletion of natural water resources
… Himalayan sub-region of India, Bangladesh, China and Nepal. Although none of these … will be visible sooner. The Yellow River in China and the Ganges (with its tributaries) in … accounts for 90 per cent of water usage) and China (where it accounts for 65 per cent of …
We've heard about the environmental and animal welfare problems with meat consumption. Now a new film, Planeat, presents a convincing health case to re-examine our love affair with meat and dairy, reports Matilda Lee
… Health Planeat Vegan Dairy Meat Cancer The China Study heartstethescopepic.jpg We've … to co-author a best selling book, The China Study: Startling Implications for Diet, … inspired to make the film after reading The China Study and realising that, ‘the same diet …
How can we centre community organising and mutual aid in response to coronavirus?
… Others are pleased that the lockout in China has reduced pollution. Some say the real … one percent figure is a guess. The rates in China are higher . But the statistics are … to stay home. Then there are parents. In China, Iran, Italy and many other countries, …
The Aedes mosquitos that carry the Zika virus and dengue fever are not just perfectly adapted to life in cities, writes Nadia Pontes. They are also being helped along by warming climates which increase their range. It's time to get serious about the health implications of a hotter planet.
… News Health Ecology Climate Change Brazil China USA favela-cut.jpg The Aedes mosquitos … monitoring the chances that the virus reaches China, whose southern regions are most at … Studies have already indicated southern China and Southeast Asia as areas where dengue …
The president of Burma has decided that coal is the way to future wealth and prosperity, write Carole Oudot & Matthieu Baudey. But if the experiences of farmers and village people near Tigyit, site of the country's biggest coal mine and coal-fired power plant is anything to go by, it will bring only poverty, pollution, ill-health and land grabs to rural communities across the country.
… cadmium and other heacy metal pollutants. China to the rescue of dirty power Since the … the power plant's rescue, in the form of the China National Heavy Machinery Corporation …
Large-scale study highlights agricultural chemicals as a possible risk factor behind rising rates of melanoma in the US
… want to help others fight similar cases NEWS China using 'mind blowing' amount of … fertiliser Overuse of nitrogen fertilisers in China is leading to rapid soil acidification …
Nearly 40 per cent more Chinese children are being born with birth defects than in 2001, a new report by the World Health Organisation has shown.
… defects 30th October 2007 News Pollution China Industrial Health Pollution News web pic … in 2006. Shanxi province - home to some of China's heaviest industries and a centre for …
As deadly H5Nx bird flu strains diversify in giant, fast-rotation flocks and and adapt to poultry that tens of thousands of human handlers care for and process every day, the emergence of a deadly human-specific flu becomes ever more likely, writes Robert G. Wallace. The industry can no longer blame wild birds for the problems it is creating - and must urgently reform its own practices.
… of the H5N1 subtype that first emerged in China in 1997 and since 2003 has killed 452 … H5Nx is shown spreading in the US, Europe, China, and South Korea, among other hot zones. … cases of H5N6 have already been documented in China. As H5Nx diversifies and adapts to …
Coal is Europe's biggest source of mercury and sulphur pollution, writes Kyla Mandel, killing tens of thousands of people a year. So how come more than half the members appointed by EU governments to set air pollution standards for coal plants are industry representatives?
… in other parts of the world, including China." Greenpeace analysed the backgrounds of … are much weaker than those adopted by China, Japan and the United States. It also …
While nothing says holistic living like a nice candle, that warm glow may be hiding a toxic secret, warns Pat Thomas
… a range of candles made in the US, Mexico and China, and measured the amount of lead they … found that metal-containing candles came from China, as well as Poland and Germany. In April … to avoid candles made in countries such as China – though many candles on the market …
Too fat, too thin, too sad, too happy... Whatever the problem Biotech is developing a vaccine or a pill to cure us. Mark White examines the consequences of a world where all our worries can be medicated away.
… internet addiction have opened in the US and China. Meanwhile, a Scottish teenager was … alone will be $1.5 billion by 2007, and as China and India become richer, with more …
It was a remarkable spectacle, writes Damian Kahya: MPs trying to get straight answers out of VW's top man in the UK over the 'dieselgate' scandal. Of course our cars gave false test results. But who would ever believe those stupid tests anyway? How many people died from all the extra pollution? None! There was no pollution!
… asthmatic, my son's asthmatic and I lived in China for three years ... you know what I learned in China more than anything else, actually in the …
Biogas digesters are a key technology for global sustainable development, writes John M. Hawdon. They simultaneously combat parasites that infect a billion people, reduce deforestation and methane emissions, and deliver vital energy to rural communities.
… technology , which is becoming popular in China and other countries in Asia and Africa. … with a government subsidy, a household in China can recoup the investment in 2-3 years … biogas technology during travels in rural China, and has long been a proponent of …