Analysis
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 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 Ryan Hodum on February 1, 2007 The majority of infrastructure installations in China today mirror those of the United States in the 1950s. The recent national goal to install wastewater treatment plants throughout the country is no exception.
by Jianqiang Liu on January 30, 2007 Chinese bodies have been put at risk for decades. Twenty years ago, people were afraid to speak out against the government. But today, they are expressing growing concern about the contamination of their food, water, and air.
by Ling Li on January 9, 2007 Nearly 312 million rural Chinese residents have no access to safe drinking water, facing problems of shortage as well as severe contamination. These rural populations, typically the most disadvantaged groups in China, suffer frequent and serious health attacks as a result of drinking unsafe water.
by Lei Xiong on December 12, 2006 While enjoying an impressive increase in meat consumption from 13.4 kilograms per person in 1980 to 53 kilograms in 2004, China is also experiencing the negative impacts of this “livestock revolution,” according to agronomists. When the country introduced livestock factory farms in the late 1970s to meet the rising demand for meat, milk, and eggs, few policymakers foresaw the “serious environmental consequences” of this intensive production system.
by Yan Zhan on November 28, 2006 The water in Zhao Bo’s village on the outskirts of Beijing was a sickly shade of green. After drinking from the local well, Zhao and his fellow villagers could not go a month without suffering from diarrhea. The contamination was believed to originate from a zinc-plating plant established...
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