Nuclear Energy in a Changing China. A page from an educational pamphlet produced by the China National Nuclear Corporation that answers the question “Why Develop Nuclear Energy.”
Deng Fei Launches Weibo Campaign to Share Images of Water Pollution. Web journalist/activist Deng Fei is already a pretty famous guy in China’s cyberspace.
In part through social media, he’s orchestrated a number of online campaigns, most of them targeted at helping children (like his famous “Free Lunch” program). But while everyone is home for the holidays, Deng has sparked another social media movement by asking a very simple question: The Long Battle Over China’s ‘White Pollution’ In the past weeks, Chinese citizens have learnt that the styrofoam boxes from which they eat their lunches will soon be legal.
On February 16, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s highest economic policy-making body, changed the Industrial Restructuring Catalog (2011) and removed disposable foam plastic tableware from the list of banned products. On May 1, the fourteen-year ban will be formally removed. Ban? What ban? The fact that it had ever been illegal came as a surprise. The recent lift to the longstanding ban has caused widespread public debate in new and traditional media, with environmental NGOs and experts stepping in to organize roundtable discussions between various stakeholders. Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Deaths in China - NYTimes.com - Pale Moon. 28,000 rivers wiped off the map of China. The dry riverbed of the Gan river, a tributary of the Yangtze.
Picture: AFP Source: AFP ABOUT 28,000 rivers have disappeared from China's state maps, an absence seized upon by environmentalists as evidence of the irreversible natural cost of developmental excesses. More than half of the rivers previously thought to exist in China appear to be missing, according to the 800,000 surveyors who compiled the first national water census, leaving Beijing fumbling to explain the cause.
Only 22,909 rivers covering an area of 100sq km were located by surveyors, compared with the more than 50,000 in the 1990s, a three-year study by the Ministry of Water Resources and the National Bureau of Statistics found. Officials blame the apparent loss on climate change, arguing that it has caused waterways to vanish, and on mistakes by earlier cartographers. Where have all the rivers gone? - Weather. Pig carcasses being retrieved from the Huangpu river near SHanghai.
[Reuters] How do you ‘lose’ a river? The answer is ‘quite easily’, apparently. Cost of Environmental Degradation in China Is Growing - NYTimes.com - Pale Moon. The sacrificial pigs and other Weibo jokes on Shanghai's floating hogs. Five days after the first dead pig surfaced in a river that flows through Shanghai, officials have yet to give answers of where exactly they come from.
The slow response and lack of information has prompted a wave of condemnation on Chinese social websites, adding to the public’s wide distrust of authorities. A popular columnist and military expert, Zhao Chu, expressed strong doubts over an official statement that most of the pigs had frozen to death. “When you said more than 10,000 pigs froze to death, in my opinion, you are lying. Chine : comment 7 500 cadavres de porcs sont arrivés à Shanghai par le fleuve - francetv info - Pale Moon. Partager "Quand on ouvre le robinet, on a de la soupe aux travers de porc.
" Si certains habitants de Shanghai parviennent à en rire, l'inquiétude est tout de même bien présente, dans la ville la plus peuplée de Chine. Depuis le 4 mars, le fleuve Huangpu, l'une des principales sources d'eau potable des 23 millions d'habitants de la mégapole, a charrié des milliers de cadavres de porcs, dont certains malades.
On en comptait près de 6 000 mercredi. Ils sont 7 545 exactement, selon le Shanghai Daily (en anglais), vendredi 15 mars. Chine: un millier de canards morts découverts dans une rivière - Chine / Environnement. Après les cochons morts flottant dans le fleuve de Shanghai, de nouvelles dépouilles animales viennent d’être découvertes dans le Sichuan.
Près d’un millier de canards morts ont été trouvés dans un cours d’eau de cette province du Grand Ouest chinois. Une enquête est en cours. Avec notre correspondant à Pékin, Stéphane Lagarde Après la « pêche » aux cochons, la « pêche » aux canards. Ce sont au total près d’un millier de palmipèdes « très odorants » et en état de décomposition avancé qui ont été découverts il y a près d’une semaine dans la rivière Nanhe entre les villes de Qinglong et Guanyin.
Pour l’instant, les autorités du Sichuan n’ont pas donné d’explication sur l’origine de l’hécatombe. Des rivières-poubelles Ces affirmations ne suffisent pas à calmer les angoisses. Cette nouvelle découverte macabre s’inscrit en effet ans un contexte plus global de fleuves et de rivières souvent considérés comme des dépotoirs par les industriels mais aussi par les éleveurs et certains riverains. Five floating dead black swans join China’s animal apocalypse. At the north-eastern corner of Anhui University’s old campus in Hefei, capital of Anhui province, there’s a scenic pond that’s inhabited by a bevy of black swans.
The swans have been there for more than a decade already, and were – as the front page of local newspaper Star News (市场新报) laments today – an object of fondness for locals. The black swans at Anhui University in happier times Yet early this morning, five of these black and beautiful swans were found floating lifeless on the surface of the pond. The latest instance of floating dead animals in China – first pigs, then ducks, and now black swans – these mere five black swans became an object of heated discussion on the Internet right after the announcement was made. How did they die? The swans are something to behold. The journalist was not impressed by the scene he found the pond. Survey: Breathing bad air in Beijing like smoking 21 cigarettes.
BEIJING--Spending a day here when smog blankets the city and the air pollution is severe is equivalent to smoking 21 cigarettes, or about a pack a day, according to a survey by a company related to the environmental industry.
The results of the survey were carried in the Xinmin Weekly, a Chinese magazine. Experts are urging the public in China to wear surgical masks because everyone, including children and nonsmokers, are at risk for respiratory problems when severe smog and air pollution settles in over Chinese cities. Ten Years after SARS: Five Myths to Unravel. Pig ignorance is the biggest concern and it won’t wash off - SHANGHAI.
The number of dead pigs found in the Huangpu River, which supplies over a fifth of Shanghai's drinking water, has risen to almost 15,000. More than 10,000 carcasses have been found in the Huangpu River in Shanghai in the past two weeks, and another 4,600 in Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province, 100 kilometers southwest. Shanghai authorities said they are investigating any potential health hazards. Tests on water and food supplies have been intensified. A swine virus has been found in some carcasses but, according to the authorities, it cannot be transmitted to humans.
The pigs are believed to have come from Jiaxing. China Is Burning Almost as Much Coal as Rest of the World Combined. Pudong river turns bright blue due to industrial pollution. Photos via Weibo. An industrial zone in the Pudong New Area is under investigation after a 300 metre stretch of a river in Hangtou turned bright blue. Shanghai Daily reports: