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Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: BEIJING – Over 80 children in a poor corner of southwestern China have been poisoned by lead from illegal smelters, the latest in a string of heavy metal pollution cases that have made hundreds sick over the last year. var addthis_pub = ‘haui’; BBC News reports here: Pollution worries and fears of a disruption to oil supplies increase, after a large pipeline blast in eastern China. var addthis_pub = ‘haui’; Reuters reports here at Yahoo News: BEIJING – Public health in Beijing benefited greatly from the Olympics and the city’s experience can act as a lesson for the development of a “health legacy” for future major sporting events, the WHO said on Tuesday. China spent an estimated $40 billion on hosting the Olympics [...] Spiegel Online reports here: What really went on at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen? Secret recordings obtained by SPIEGEL reveal how China and India prevented an agreement on tackling climate change at the crucial meeting. The powerless Europeans were forced to look on as the agreement failed. var addthis_pub = ‘haui’; CNN reports here: The Pearl River has sustained Chinese civilization for centuries but the last few decades have not been kind to the river. It has become a dumping ground and around the denim jean factories the Pearl runs black. var addthis_pub = ‘haui’; AFP reports here at Yahoo News: BEIJING – A tributary of China’s Yellow River has been polluted by an oil spill, state-run media reported Saturday, in the latest environmental accident to threaten the nation’s drinking water. var addthis_pub = ‘haui’; AFP reports here at Yahoo News: BEIJING – China’s coastal waters are increasingly polluted by everything from oil to pesticides, contaminating the nation’s marine life including the shellfish supply, state press reported Friday. var addthis_pub = ‘haui’; AFP reports here at Yahoo News: WASHINGTON – The United States pressed China, India and other emerging powers to make clearer commitments to fighting climate change, warning that last year’s Copenhagen accord risked being “stillborn.” var addthis_pub = ‘haui’; AP reports here at Yahoo News: BEIJING – China has revealed its most ambitious measure of what explosive development has done to its environment, saying Tuesday its first national pollution census has mapped nearly 6 million sources of industrial, residential and agricultural waste. var addthis_pub = ‘haui’; AFP reports here at Yahoo News: BEIJING – China has scrapped restrictions on the use of foreign parts in wind power turbines, state media reported, as the nation seeks access to more advanced technology to meet its clean energy targets. var addthis_pub = ‘haui’; |
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