Archive for ‘Ecology’

28/01/2012

* Cadmium discharge threatens 3.7m people in China

31/01/12 update: Seven chemical company officials arrested.

http://flashnewstoday.com/index.php/seven-detained-over-china-river-cadmium-spill/

27/01/12 – Reuters: “A cancer-causing cadmium discharge from a mining company has polluted a long stretch of two rivers in southern China, and officials warned some 3.7 million people of Liuzhou in the Guangxi region to avoid drinking water from the river.

“Pollution of waterways by toxic run-offs from factories and farms is a pressing issue in China, prompting authorities to call for policy tightening, though the problem shows no sign of going away.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/27/us-china-pollution-cadmium-idUSTRE80Q0IN20120127

and http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-01/30/content_14502146.htm

20/01/2012

* Chinese climate change report stark and honest

Global warming threatens China’s march to prosperity by reducing crops, shrinking rivers and unleashing more droughts and floods, says the Chinese government’s latest “Second National Assessment Report on Climate Change”.

China is the world’s second biggest economy after the US and the biggest emitter of greenhouse gas pollution, now ahead of the US.

Global warming caused and exacerbated by greenhouse gases from industry, transport and changing land-use poses a long-term threat to China’s prosperity, health and food production, says the report. With China’s economy likely to overtake the United States’ in 20 or 30 years, that has dire consequences.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/18/us-china-climate-idUSTRE80H06J20120118

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