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$2.14 billion project underway to relocate 392,000 people due to fluoride-contaminated water
A project that will cost nearly 14 billion yuan ($ 2.14 billion) to relocate people from remote mountainous areas in Northwest China has started, a provincial government said. The relocation project, prompted by health concerns, is targeting residents living in northern Shaanxi’s poverty-stricken Baiyu mountainous areas. The project will take 10 years to help 392,000 […]
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Resurgence of fipronil in China
Note from Fluoride Action Network. Fipronil is a highly toxic pesticide. This is it’s molecular formula: The restriction of insecticide fipronil issued by the MOA, which banned its registrations, sales and usage on most crops in China since 2009, only exemptions have been granted for residential use, corn and exports. Yet the execution for fipronil […]
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China: Most northern plain groundwater unsafe to drink
Only 24 percent of groundwater in the North China Plain is safe to drink, a recent study by the China Geological Survey shows. The four-year study found groundwater in the area has been tainted by heavy metals, chemical fertilizers and surface water pollution caused by leaks from garbage dumps and sewage water irrigation. Zhang Zhaoji, […]
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Disease in rural China linked to polluted coal
WASHINGTON, D.C., (Oct. 19, 2010) — In remote, rural areas of southwestern China, villagers cook and dry their clothes by burning pieces of coal they pick up off the ground. This fuel releases a toxin that may be poisoning millions of people, according to an ongoing investigation by chemists at the University at Buffalo in […]
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Are Rare Earth Minerals Too Costly for Environment?
Excert from Transcript LINDSEY HILSUM: It doesn’t look very green. Rare earth processing in China is a messy, dangerous, polluting business. It uses toxic chemicals, acids, sulfates, ammonia. The workers have little or no protection. But, without rare earth, Copenhagen means nothing. You buy a Prius hybrid car and think you’re saving the planet. But […]
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Fluorosis prevention starts in southwest China kitchen
Southwest China’s Guizhou Province is hoping to reduce fluorosis incidence in two years by replacing old-fashioned stoves that give off fluorin-rich smokes. The provincial government’s two-year plan on the promotion of public health, published here Friday, said the government would subsidize 220 to 240 yuan for each household in fluorin-rich areas to replace stoves. The […]
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China lists prevention of open coal-burners as major public health project
Excerpt: China has changed from having a shortage of medical care and medicine to providing universal access to medical care, and from “the sick man of Asia” to a “healthy China.” In the 60 years since the founding of New China, China’s public health system and medical care service system has continuously improved, a basic […]
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China to monitor endemic arsenic, fluoride poisoning
BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) — China will start to monitor the endemic poisoning of coal-burning arsenic and fluoride as environmentally-related illnesses continue to plague coal-rich central and western regions, the Ministry of Health said Monday. Information to be monitored includes the management of arsenic and fluorine-rich coal mines, the progress of old furnace replacements and […]
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Prolonged consumption of tea could weaken bones
Prolonged consumption of tea, especially the oolong and black variety, could weaken human bones due to the presence of toxic fluorine in tea beverages, Japanese researchers say. The researchers, including Tetsuo Shimmura, who is senior research scientist of Toyama Institute of Health in Toyama Prefecture, reported the existence of the chemical in beverages such as […]
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Poisonous legacy of a simple clay stove
WHEN Hou Jiwen was born 52 years ago in Hehua Village in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, his house, like many, had a coal-fired clay stove for cooking. Nobody gave the stove a second thought but, even then, it was changing the course of Hou’s life. It was only after he married in his 20s and […]
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