At 6:00pm in the evening, a pipe on the north side of the Youngor International Garments City factory, dumps large quantities of foul smelling waste water into the river. Caption and Photo source: © Greenpeace / Qiu Bo.
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Widespread outrage against China’s environmental issues that began when Beijing’s air pollution hit record levels last month has spread to encompass another major public health threat: water pollution…
Read Full Article, Guardian UK
Green Protests On The Rise In China, Nature Journal, (Uploaded 08-14-2012)
For years, people in China have accepted murky air, tainted waters and scarred landscapes as the unavoidable price of the country’s meteoric economic growth. But public dissent over environmental issues has been growing steadily.
Dirty Laundry: Greenpeace Reports on Toxic Industrial Water Pollution, Greenpeace (Uploaded 08-26-2011)
A report just released by Greenpeace International, after a year-long study research into industrial water pollution, reveals the presence of hazardous chemicals in clothing items bearing the logos of 14 global popular brands, linking many of the same clothing brands to suppliers in China who were found to be releasing daily cocktail of chemicals into the Pearl River and Yangtze River deltas, discharging into the China Sea…
Pollution for the Sake of Economic Growth, Science Daily, (Uploaded 04-28-2012)
Rapid economic growth will continue to be energy-intensive and highly polluting for the foreseeable future, adding to environmental harm on a global scale and having a tremendous impact on ecological systems, according to a study that looked at a decade’s worth of data from 30 Chinese provinces to build a comprehensive model of pollution.
