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The Official Line On Those Ningbo Protests: Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say...
Advisory: highway signs are being covered up in Ningbo because of some reason. That reason does not concern you. The highway signs are covered up in a city somewhere for no reason. There is no reason....
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Villagers Clash With Police Over Proposed Power Plant, Flip Over Vehicles...
Sources are saying that scattered protests involving “more than 1,000 villagers” (SCMP, via Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy) in Wenzhou, Zheijang province have...
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Beijing Finally Gets With Times, Will Use AQI Index That Measures PM 2.5
After a year of public demands, Beijing’s municipal government has finally agreed to measure air pollution using the Air Quality Index (AQI), which most pollution-watchers should be familiar with...
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Chinese Politicians Who Advocate For The Environment Risk Career Setback: Report
For years now, people have claimed that being green is profitable. For even longer, however, companies and countries have engaged in greenwashing, the act of deceptively marketing oneself as...
View ArticleReporter Asks Emotional Three-Minute Question About The Environment, Receives...
The environment is everyone’s concern, because we all live under the same sky — in Beijing, often a dark, dirty one, rife with health hazards. It’s our collective duty to take care of it, but what can...
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NPC Delegate Zhong Nanshan: What Good Is The World’s Highest GDP If The...
Although the skies were conveniently blue for the first day of the National People’s Congress on March 5, by the next day the AQI was already creeping back above 300. In an interesting twist, a...
View Article900 Dead Pigs Found In Shanghai Waterway [UPDATE: Swine Count Now In The...
People in Shanghai never stop complaining about Beijing, and with sandstorms sweeping into the capital, the people in this country’s Second City have been growing quite smug about their marginally...
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Bay Of Pigheaded Pork Hogwash UPDATE: More Than 3,000 Dredged Out Of Shanghai...
Babe: Pig in the Drinking Water. You’ve read the story, seen the video (above, if not). Now hear what the Onion, et al., have to say about the thousands of dead pigs in the Huangpu River, a source of...
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“Pigfestation” Is What We’re Now Calling It, Because Nearly 6,000 Dead Pigs
Unsatisfied with “hogwash,” “bay of pigs,” and “bacon” — all perfectly good and scurvy ways of describing the deathcarts of pig carcasses dredged out of the upper regions of Shanghai’s Shuangpu River...
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The Farmer Responsible For Dumping 6,601 (And Counting) Swine Carcasses Into...
Seriously, now: forget the jokes, forget about water safety concerns, forget everything until this question is answered: what possibly could have gone through the mind of the homicidal pig farmer who...
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Environmentally Conscious Chinese Rally For Arbor Day
Did you know that Tuesday, March, 12, was Arbor Day in China? On Zhi Shu Jie (植树节), literally Plant-A-Tree Day, people celebrated by planting anything they could. As Sina Weibo user @粮仓一鼠 put it,...
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Good Morning, Beijing. You Look… Different
The rain began yesterday afternoon, turning into ice by the late evening, continuing through the night as snow. And behold, the above picture via BJ Reviewer. Josh Chin is also calling for photos at...
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At Least 8 Dead As Egg-Sized Hail, Like “Stone Rain,” Pummels Southern China...
A freak hailstorm swept through southern China last night, hitting Fujian, Hunan and Guangdong provinces, but the place that got it worst was the city of Dongguan, Guangdong, where preliminary reports...
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238 Pigs And 89 Dogs “Suddenly Dead” In Chinese Village [UPDATE]
This is alarming. According to Nandu.com, 238 dead pigs and 89 dead dogs were found in Dongtun village in Luoyang, Henan province yesterday. By all accounts, they died suddenly and at the same time....
View ArticleHenan city imports water, because its water source is “dark as soy sauce”
You know you have an environmental problem when… A) You have to import 5 million tons of freshwater B) Your source of tap water is “dark as soy sauce” Both of the above for Luohe, Henan province. Via...
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1,177 Tons Of Fish Dead Of Oxygen Deprivation Near Yunnan Hydroelectric Dam
Thousands of fish have been dredged out of a reservoir near Sinan River Power Station, a hydroelectric dam in Yunnan province. How many thousands? Whatever 1,177 tons comes out to — about half a...
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China’s Environment Minister Calls His Ministry One Of “Four Major...
Someone doesn’t enjoy his job. Reports The Telegraph, Zhou Shengxian, who is China’s environment minister, was “quoted by state media as saying: ‘I’ve heard that there are four major embarrassing...
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Jiangmen Protest Successful As City Scraps Plans To Build Uranium Plant
Hundreds of residents staged a not-in-my-backyard protest in Jiangmen, Guangdong province on Friday to oppose plans to build a uranium processing plant. SCMP reports that the protest, a restrained and...
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Tree 1, Crane 0
A 700-year-old tree in Shifang, Sichuan province withstood the efforts of a crane trying to secretly knock it down. Check it out. That’s what happens when an immovable object is actually immovable: 30...
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Watch: Zhejiang China’s Shark Slaughter Capital
This week, shocking photos and videos emerged of the slaughter of endangered whale sharks on a massive, industrial scale. According to an investigation by the marine conservation group WildLifeRisk,...
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