Food & Water
by Yingling Liu on November 8, 2007 The waters off China’s
eastern and northeastern coasts, home to the country’s major seafood production
and fish farms, have become a giant dumping ground for chemical wastes.
by Lila Buckley on September 27, 2007 Nestled in the dusty northern suburbs of Beijing, the village of Baige Zhuang seems like an unlikely birthplace for fine Italian wines and cheeses.
by Lila Buckley on September 11, 2007 Government officials and researchers in China are increasingly trying to solve the economic piece of the nation’s environmental puzzle.
by Ling Li on August 23, 2007 Early last month, China’s top environmental authority, the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), announced a decision to suspend the approval of all new industrial projects in 13 cities and industrial parks along four major rivers that are suffering from severe water pollution—the Hai, Huai, Yangtze, and Yellow.
by Hujun Li on August 2, 2007 A battle between humans and mice is raging in the Dongting Lake area of China’s Hunan Province. According to the province’s Department of Agriculture, the number of mice in the area has exploded to up to 2 billion in recent months.
by Wang Jiaquan on July 26, 2007 For years, eastern China’s Jiangsu province has proudly led the rest of the country in economic production.
by Ling Li on June 26, 2007 A large outbreak of blue-green algae last month on eastern China’s Lake Tai—the country’s third largest freshwater lake—has contaminated the main drinking water source of Wuxi, cutting the tap water supply for the city’s 2 million residents for almost three days.
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