Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'environment'
China's monster traffic jam rears its head again
By Scott McDonald - AP | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News August 28, 2010 China's monster traffic jam has reared its head again, with trucks and cars backed up for up to 18 miles (30 kilometers) Saturday on a highway north...
China's Energy Grab Is No Green Affair
By Dr. Michael Economides | FORBESJune 17, 2010 During President Obama's Oval Office address to the nation on the subject of the BP oil spill, the chief executive pointed to China as a leader in clean energy investment in hopes...
Mine Sparks Anger in Qinghai
By Radio Free Asia07 May 2010 Tibetans say mining at a sacred site prompted a major earthquake. Tibetan herders in the remote western Chinese province of Qinghai have hit out at a mining company after it sank deep shafts into...
Reporters banned from Chinese village
By BBC World NewsAugust 25, 2009 Police and local government officials in China have swamped a village at the centre of a lead poisoning case in Changqing, which left hundreds of children sick. Villagers are forbidden from speaking to journalists,...
Parents of China lead victims fear for future
By Francois Bougon | Agence France Presse AFP | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAugust 23, 2009 HENGJIANG, China (AFP) - The landscape near Hengjiang village offers a picture-postcard view of China, with rice paddies, water buffaloes and rolling green hills. It...
China: Where Poisoning People Is Almost Free
By Vivian Wai-yin Kwok | FORBES MAGAZINE via forbes.comAugust 07, 2009 In addition to its cheap labor costs, China has another comparative advantage as the world's factory: Companies often pay almost nothing to pollute China's air, water and soil and...
1.9 lakh killed in China's nuclear tests ***
*** lakh is a unit in the Indian measuring system 1.9 lakh = 190,000 Thus title means 190,000 killed in China's nuclear testsThe Times of India - April 19, 2009 The nuclear test grounds in the wastes of the Gobi...
Is China Making Its Bird Flu Outbreak Worse?
By Austin Ramzy | TIME Magazine in Partnership with CNN February 13, 2009 One thing is certain about avian influenza: it's deadly. Of the three people who contracted the H5N1 strain of the virus in China last year, three died....
Possible Link Between Dam and China Quake
By Sharon LaFraniere | THE NEW YORK TIMESFebruary 06, 2009 Nearly nine months after a devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province, China, left 80,000 people dead or missing, a growing number of American and Chinese scientists are suggesting that the calamity...
Following The Trail Of Toxic E-Waste
By CBS NEWS - 60 MINUTES - Broadcast on November 09, 2008 60 Minutes is going to take you to one of the most toxic places on Earth - a place government officials and gangsters don't want you to see....
'Post-Olympic era' off to a rocky start in China
By CNN - The World's Largest NetworkSeptember 17, 2008 The Olympic flame is out, the smog is back, and traffic again clogs the roads. Welcome to what commentators are calling China's "post-Olympic era," in which euphoria over the Beijing Games...
China Grabs West's Smoke-Spewing Factories
By Joseph Kahn and Mark Landler | The New York TimesDecember 21, 2007 HANDAN, China -- When residents of this northern Chinese city hang their clothes out to dry, the black fallout from nearby Handan Iron and Steel often sends...
China's dirty little secret -- e-waste
From CNN's Planet in Peril reportNovember 20, 2007 The air smells acrid from squat gas burners that sit outside homes, melting wires to recover copper and cooking computer motherboards to release gold. Migrant workers in filthy clothing smash picture tubes...
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