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Number of dead pigs found in Shanghai river surpasses 8,000

Posted by mox on Friday, 15 March 2013 in Earth Violators

Authorities have pulled 8,354 hog carcasses from a river that provides drinking water to Shanghai. Locals worry about contamination, but the municipal government has said repeatedly that tap water is safe. BEIJING — The number of dead pigs found in a Shanghai river that provides drinking water to t...

Ban plastic bags across Europe and end the 'throw-away society'

Posted by mox on Friday, 15 March 2013 in Recycling

Global plastic production has increased from 1.5 million tonnes per year in 1950, to 245 million tonnes in 2008, reveals MEP The European Commission recently presented a green paper on plastic waste. Plastic has become a symbol of our throw-away society. The use of plastic has sky...

China Puts a Price on Clean Air

Posted by Dale on Tuesday, 29 January 2013 in Air Quality

BEIJING: A Chinese entrepreneur is selling fresh air in soft drink cans, similar to bottled drinking water, as north China is once again choking in toxic smog. The concentration of airborne PM 2.5 particulates - the smallest and most deadly - went off the chart in the early hours of Tuesday morning...

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Humans Caused Historic Great Barrier Reef Collapse

Posted by EarthDude on Thursday, 08 November 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The expansion of European settlement in Australia triggered a massive coral collapse at the Great Barrier Reef more than 50 years ago, according to a new study. The study, published Nov. 6 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that runoff from farms clouded the pristine waters off the Qu...