Tuesday, 30 April, 2013, 12:00am News›Hong Kong ENVIRONMENT Cheung Chi-fai chifai.cheung@scmp.com Clean-ups at power plants and tighter controls on vehicle emissions cited as key factors Air quality in the Pearl River Delta improved last year, according to the latest regional air quality report, but concerns are mounting about the deterioration of roadside air in Hong [...]
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An ounce of prevention
Pre-empting pandemics An ounce of prevention As new viruses emerge in China and the Middle East, the world is poorly prepared for a global pandemic Apr 20th 2013 | Bangkok and New York |From the print edition IN FEBRUARY an 87-year-old man was admitted to hospital in Shanghai. What started as a cough progressed to [...]
Toll of cancer misery rises in Shandong’s petrochemical villages
Thursday, 04 April, 2013, 5:04am News›China CANCER Li Jing in Zibo, Shandong province jing.li@scmp.com Shandong villagers convinced pollution from petrochemical plants that ring their homes is behind surge in tumours, but feel powerless to fight it It was a cold, gloomy early spring day in Jinnan village, Shandong province – fitting weather for a ceremony [...]
Levels, profiles and source identification of PCDD/Fs in farmland soils of Guiyu, China
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653513001847
DELIVERING LOW CARBON GROWTH A Guide to China’s 12th Five Year Plan
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China Releases 12th Five-Year Plan for Waste Recycling Technology
Posted on June 25, 2012 by China Briefing Jun. 25 – China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, National Development and Reform Commission, and other five ministries and commissions jointly released “The 12th Five-Year Plan for Waste Recycling Technology (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Plan’).” The Plan identifies the major areas of waste recycling technology as [...]
Letters to the Editor, February 28, 2013
Submitted by admin on Feb 28th 2013, 12:00am Comment›Letters Air pollution in delta region not worse We would like to point out that the article “Smog in Pearl Delta ‘worse than Beijing’” (February 21) misrepresented how air pollution in the Pearl River Delta should be understood. For those of us who study air quality in [...]
Smog in Pearl River Delta ‘worse than in Beijing’
Submitted by admin on Feb 21st 2013, 12:00am News›China ENVIRONMENT Lo Wei and Agence France-Presse Shoe and cosmetic factories the main factors behind higher levels of dangerous organic compounds, says mainland dust expert Pollutants in the Pearl River Delta are more dangerous than those choking the capital because they contain higher levels of hazardous nitrogenous [...]
Beijing ranks ninth among China’s top 10 polluted cities
Submitted by ernest.kao on Feb 7th 2013, 6:19pm News›China ENVIRONMENT Ernest Kao China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection on Thursday released a list of its 10 [1] most heavily polluted cities for January – with Beijing ranking ninth. The list also includes Xingtai, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Handan, Lanfang, Hengshui, Jinan, Tangshan and Zhengzhou. Seven of the cities listed [...]
Clear evidence obscures truth of Beijing’s pollution data
Submitted by admin on Feb 7th 2013, 12:00am Business MONITOR Tom Holland Municipalities hoping to win prestigious model city status typically report a miraculous run of ‘blue sky days’ in the fourth quarter: study With Beijing only now recovering after spending much of January blanketed under life-threatening levels of toxic smog, reports that officials may [...]