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Pollution is making Chinese sperm damaged and “ugly” Sperm: Usually so beautiful, right? (Not really, but just go with it.) But in China, pollution is making sperm so long and gross that it’s a wonder anyone is having sex at all. Li Zheng, the director of Shanghai’s biggest sperm bank, discovered the fugly sperm as part of a decade-long study on male infertility. Thanks to poor air quality, Chinese men’s sperm is weird-looking and sometimes doesn’t even swim at all. Writes Quartz: The just-completed research found that two-thirds of the semen specimens at Shanghai’s biggest sperm bank failed to meet World Health Organization sperm-count standards.

It’s just like that Flannery O’Connor short story, “A Good Sperm Is Hard To Find.” Quality problems aside, China has long grappled with a donor shortage … sperm are so scarce that women will pay up to 30,000 yuan ($4,900) for sperm on China’s booming black market. But don’t let these sperm problems make you feel impotent. Agriculture. Eau. Climat. Juridique. Pollution. Sites et sols pollues. Air. Dechets / Recyclage. Gestion des risques. Rechercher dans les archives Dev. Durable. Amenagement. Energies. Ressources naturelles. Hygiene Proprete Environnement. Nature / Ecologie. Transport. Actu Environnement : actualité, news, newsletter environnement et développement durable.