Real name registration required to buy face masks in Kunming following mass protests against PX plant (Update: cancelled)
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Henan river named after legendary Chinese folk lady Meng Jiang Nu turns blood red
Shortly after revealed by Chinese netizens on May 2 that the West Meng Jiangnu River in Xinxiang city of Henan province turns blood red, local government has arranged to pump the water to a water treatment plant. The reason of the heavy river pollution remains unknown. Read More
Environment | May 4, 2013 AM | Related China stories:Water pollution
Fear to contract Beijing cough? Then DIY and make an air filtration device as the Laowai does
Beijing-based UK artist Matt Hope is taking Beijing’s huge problem of air pollution into his own hands by inventing a breathing bike to filter the Beijing air. Read More
Environment | Mar 31, 2013 AM | Related China stories:Breathing bike
New job opportunity: Chinese fishermen find excavating dead pigs from rivers more profitable than fishing as fish is harder to find in the polluted waters
Many fishermen in China’s Zhejiang province have taken a new career path after no fish can be found in the rivers. Instead of catching fish, they are being paid to fish dead pigs in the polluted waters. Read More
Environment | Mar 24, 2013 AM | Related China stories:Dead pigs
Freezing temperature turns Changchun car covered with melt water into an ice sculpture
Freezing temperature turned a car parked under a light rail flyover into an ice sculpture on March 11th, 2013 in Changchun, capital city of Jilin Province in Northeast China. Read More
Environment | Mar 12, 2013 AM | Related China stories:Ice sculpture
Having the worst air pollution of China, Linfen city spends 50 million yuan in building 160 star-rated luxury public toilets to enhance its city image
Linfen city in Shanxi province has been criticized online after spending 50 million yuan on 'luxury toilets' in the faux style of China's famous buildings. Read More
Environment | Mar 5, 2013 AM | Related China stories:Public toilet
Does Chengdu use toxic colorant to dye city view lawn green to make the city look more environment friendly?
A Chinese netizen from Chengdu posted on his Weibo that he saw city sanitary workers spraying green colorant to dye city view lawn to make the grass look greener and questioned the necessity of such image project. Read More
Environment | Feb 26, 2013 AM | Related China stories:Lawn dyed green
Residents are warned to stay indoors, as heavy smog shrouds half China, PM2.5 index reaches 1000 in Beijing while in Washington it stands at 54
China issues a yellow alert for heavy smog that continues to shroud the country's northern, central and eastern regions on Sunday. Beijing recommends residents to stay indoors as air polution index PM2.5 reaches 1000 for some areas. Read More
Environment | Jan 13, 2013 AM | Related China stories:Beijing smog
Landslide in Yunnan engulfs village, killing all the buried 46 local residents, including 19 children and a family of seven
A landslide engulfs a village in the mountains of Southwestern China's Yunnan province on Friday, burying 46 people of 14 homes. As of Saturday morning, it is confirmed all the buried are killed. Read More
Environment | Jan 11, 2013 AM | Related China stories:Yunnan landslide
Wuhan spends one million RMB on single luxury public toilet, draws criticism
The luxury public toilet of Wuhan draws criticism from the Chinese netizens. According to Wuhan Chengguan Office , the reason to build such beautiful public toilets is to show the good image of the city of Wuhan. Building view-spot public toilet is one of the Top Ten Culture Initiative View-spot Projects of Wuhan. Read More
Environment | Dec 9, 2012 AM | Related China stories:Public toilet
Annoyed by woman littering on street, Chinese environmental sanitation worker cuts off her finger
A Chinese woman in Zhuzhou of Hunan was asked to pick up the trash she threw about and when she refused, the city sanitation worker cut off her finger. Chinese netizens' opinions are divided on the behaviors of both the victim and offender. Read More
Environment | Nov 5, 2012 AM | Related China stories:Sanitation worker
Sexy Chinese model shows off 5 million RMB diamond-studded lingerie at Nanchang Wedding Exhibition
On August 31 at the 2012 Nanchang Wedding Exhibition, sexy Chinese model was hired to show off two pairs of diamond-studded lingeries which drew envious stares from the visitors. Read More
Environment | Sep 1, 2012 AM | Related China stories:Diamond studded lingerie
Topless environmentalist protests against Ginseng planting in Beijing
A group of Chinese environmentalists suddenly appeared at a jinseng presentation conducted by a Jilin company in Chaoyang Park of Beijing and protested against ginseng planting. Among them a topless female environmentalist gained most of the attention. Read More
Environment | Aug 20, 2012 AM | Related China stories:Topless environmentalist
Beijing's heaviest rain in 6 decades kills at least 77 people,underground drainage system questioned
The Saturday heaviest rain in 6 decades in Beijing has left at least 77 people dead. While some Chinese netizens mock the disaster by saying 'Go to Beijing to see the sea', others question the quality of the underground drainage system. Read More
Environment | Jul 22, 2012 AM | Related China stories:Beijing heavy rain
Hail and torrential rains kill 44 in Minxian of Gansu Province,23 missing
The death toll had risen to 44 and 23 others remained missing as of May13 Sunday after hail disaster and torrential rains battered the mountainous county Minxian in Northwest China's Gansu Province. Read More
Environment | May 12, 2012 PM | Related China stories:Hail disaster
River water becomes blood red in Shaoxing of Zhejiang Province
Chinese netizens reveal that the river water beside a textile factory in Shaoxing of Zhejiang Province appears blood red due to heavy water pollution. Read More
Environment | May 9, 2012 AM | Related China stories:Water pollution
Severe drought persists in central and eastern China
BEIJING, May 29 -- China's National Meteorological Center on Sunday kept its 'yellow alert' for the persistent drought that is plaguing many central and eastern provinces of China Read More
Environment | May 29, 2011 AM | Related China stories:China Drought
Elevated blood lead levels found in dozens in Zhejiang
Dozens of people living near a battery plant in Deqing County, Zhejiang Province in East China have dangerously elevated blood lead levels, according to medical tests carried out since March. Read More
Environment | May 14, 2011 PM | Related China stories:Elevated lead level
Cancer village Shangba - village of death
Shangba (Chinese: 上坝) is an agricultural village in Guangdong. Recently, the village has come to be known as China's 'Village of Death' among the hundreds of cancer villages in China due to the extremely high incidence of cancer in its population. Read More
Environment | Dec 4, 2010 AM | Related China stories:Cancer village
Cancer hangs over villages along Huai River
Cancer rates have surged in mainland China since the 1990s to become the nation's biggest killer. Environmental activists estimate that there are at least 100 cancer villages in China in which cancer rate is considerably higher than average level due to heavy pollution. Read More
Environment | Dec 3, 2010 PM | Related China stories:Cancer village
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