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Hydrogen fluoride emissions from Hynix’s air pollution application worries residents
In the past decade, Hynix’s giant green and tan factory with its constant gentle hum has become part of the scenery at the Hamlins’ llama ranch off Bailey Hill Road in west Eugene. “We’ve got a view of the city lights,” Fred Hamlin said earlier this week, gesturing toward downtown Eugene as he stood in […]
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Total fluoride in Guangdong soil profiles, China: Spatial distribution and vertical variation
Abstract A total of 260 soil profiles were reported to investigate the fluoride distribution and vertical variation in Guangdong province. The soil fluoride contents followed an approximately lognormal distribution. Although the soil fluoride geometric mean concentration of 407 mg/kg is lower than that of China, its content varied from 87 to 2860 mg/kg. An upper baseline concentration […]
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Coal burning having a devastating impact on rural Chinese
Zhang Huaixiang’s thin wasted frame dangles from his wooden crutches, his bowed legs swelled by a disease contracted from a lifelong reliance on coal. Zhang, 57, a farmer in Guizhou province in the nation’s mountainous southwest, has been near bed-ridden for a year, unable to walk properly due to the rotting of his bones and […]
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Chinese villages, poisoned by toxins, battle for justice
LEIFENG, CHINA – Zhang Guanghui, an 11-year-old orphan, rises from the kang, a heated brick bed that he shares with an older cousin. He scurries through his barren four-room concrete home, washing his face and hands, brushing his teeth, and preparing food. At the center of all his actions is dirty water that he pumps […]
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Water supplies to 28,000 Chinese suspended
BEIJING – Toxic wastewater was flushed untreated into a river in southern China, prompting the government to cut water supplies to 28,000 people for at least four days, a local official and a Chinese newspaper said Monday. The official China Daily said that a power plant on the upper reaches of the Yuexi River in […]
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China aims to improve safe water availability by 2010
BEIJING, Dec 19 (Reuters) – China expects to bring potable water to 100 million rural residents by 2010, a state newspaper said on Monday, but that would still leave more than 200 million people with unsafe supplies. Plagued by droughts and shortages, China is currently unable to provide clean drinking water to 360 million people, […]
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Millions of Chinese unable to smile due to Fluorosis
Beijing, Aug 22 (PTI) In ancient China, it was considered impolite for well-bred ladies to show their teeth while smiling. Today, some young people purse their lips while smiling – not because they are following any tradition but because they do not want to expose their discoloured molars. Statistics from the Ministry of Health show […]
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Corn, chili main causes of fluoride poisoning in Guiyang
GUIYANG, June 28 (Xinhuanet) — Chinese scientists have found cornand chili that easily absorb fluoride in the air are more likely to blame for the high incidence of fluoride poisoning in the country’s southwestern region. “Fluorosis, or overexposure to fluoride, is more a result of the local people’s eating habit and climate conditions,” said Zheng […]
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China maps massive problem of water contamination
[BEIJING] Some 65 million Chinese rely on underground water supplies that are heavily contaminated with arsenic or fluoride, according to the first national survey of the quality of the country’s supply of drinking water. SciDev.Net has seen an early preview of the summary of the report, whose public release date still needs to be confirmed. […]
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Aid Groups Urge Action on Water-Borne Diseases
GENEVA (Reuters) – Water-borne diseases kill at least 3.4 million people every year, making them collectively more lethal than AIDS, according to the World Health Organization. To mark World Water Day on Friday, health, environmental and humanitarian agencies urged greater international effort to improve the water, hygiene and sanitation conditions of the world’s poor. “Water […]
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