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China gears up to tackle tainted water
When rumours swirled earlier this year that factories in Weifang, China, were discharging waste water into the region’s aquifers — the principal source of drinking water for the city’s 9 million residents — citizens flocked to the Web to register their outrage on microblogging site Sina Weibo. The rumours were finally confirmed by officials in late […]
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Call for Transparency Over China’s Water Quality
Activists in the eastern city of Nanjing have called on the ruling Chinese Communist Party to make public details of drinking water quality following a clampdown on the industry last year and amid growing fears for public health and consumer safety. China issued a document on July 1 last year setting new safety standards for […]
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PFCs identified in Chinese alligators and earthworms
A team of scientists from Japan and China has identified a range of perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) in the blood of Chinese alligators kept at the Anhui Research Center for Chinese Alligator Reproduction. They detected six PFCs, which are used in waterproof and non-stick coatings, including perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS). Perfluoroundecanoic acid (PFUnDA) was the most dominant […]
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Zhejiang Province: Villagers angered by pollution
Villagers in east China’s Zhejiang Province are demanding a nearby aluminum factory cease polluting the environment after they said 127 people had suffered fluoride poisoning and 84 had caught cancers over the past 27 years. From 1985 to the end of last year, 23 villagers living near the factory in Zhejiang’s Lanxi City died […]
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Sichuan Province: Phosphogypsum waste piled near villages
Huge piles of phosphogypsum containing hazardous chemicals were found in close proximity to villages and potable water sources in Sichuan Province, leading to calls for a government investigation into the situation, according to a report released Tuesday by Greenpeace East Asia, an environmental organization. Phosphogypsum is a plentiful byproduct left over from the production of […]
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Big pollution risk seen in rare-earth mining
Pulling rare-earth elements from deep underground carries the potential for big financial rewards – and big environmental risks. In China, where 95 percent of all rare earths worldwide are mined, a lack of environmental regulation has allowed massive surface and groundwater pollution. In Arizona, a state geologist and the head of the University of Arizona’s […]
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Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) emission estimates for China: an inventory for 1990–2010 and a projection to 2020
Abstract: Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is the most potent greenhouse gas regulated under the Kyoto Protocol, with a high global warming potential. In this study, SF6 emissions from China were inventoried for 1990–2010 and projected to 2020. Results reveal that the highest SF6 emission contribution originates from the electrical equipment sector (about 70%), followed by the […]
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New Shape for the Bauxite and Alumina Industry
Bauxite and Alumina 8th Edition The shape and dynamics of the global bauxite and alumina industry are changing, according to a new report from Roskill. New alumina refining and bauxite production capacity will boost supply over the next five years to meet the rising demand for aluminium, mainly from China, but also other growth areas such […]
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$4.5 billion spent in 2012 for safer drinking water
The central government has spent 28 billion yuan ($4.5 billion) this year on improving the drinking water of more than 70 million rural residents, according to the Ministry of Water Resources. Water safety problems in areas that suffered incidence of schistosome – sometimes known as blood-flukes, or flatworms – and high levels of arsenic and […]
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Fluoridated pesticides found in Chinese teas
Excerpts: In December 2011 and January 2012 Greenpeace took samples from nine well-known tea companies.. The samples were sent to an accredited third-party laboratory for pesticide testing… The results showed that every one of the 18 samples from the nine tea manufacturers contained at least three different kinds of pesticides; 12 of the samples showed […]
China Pesticides
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