A UN report says it will cost up to $1bn and take 30 years to clean up the damage done by decades of drilling by Shell.Oil exploration in Nigeria's south for several decades has had a debilitating effect on the ...Read More
Enough of all these disasters. It is time to go for clean energy resources even though expensive. This is just another example that nuclear power is a totally unrealiable source of energy. Who took the decision to build nuclear power ...Read More
China has the world's highest wind power capacity after adding 62 percent or 16 gigawatts (GW) in new capacity last year, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday.The country's total installed wind power capacity reached 41.8 GW at the ...Read More
A factory in the eastern province of Anhui operated illegally for years a few feet away from homes. In 2010 they nine cases of lead pollution were officially recorded. The government is in trouble, as evidenced by the conviction of ...Read More
Like many villages in China’s industrial heartland, Qiugang — a hamlet of nearly 1,900 people in Anhui province — has long suffered from runaway pollution from nearby factories. In Qiugang’s case, three major enterprises with little or no pollution controls ...Read More
If you're a bit of a slob like me, you are wearing jeans to work today, and if, like me, you're a bit of a slob who doesn't manage hedge funds, your jeans are fairly run of the mill. My ...Read More
A senior Chinese official said in 2007 that much of the country's local economic data are unreliable, according to a leaked diplomatic cable published by the WikiLeaks website.A construction site in Liaoning province, where Vice Premier Li Keqiang was Communist ...Read More
BEIJING - Xu Yinxian, a 58-year-old cleaner dressed in an orange uniform, appears in a residential community near the Fourth North Ring Road in Beijing every morning and afternoon.He removes garbage from dustbins on which the signs of "recycle" and ...Read More
To get a sense of how China’s air quality compares with the rest of the world, there’s a new map of global air-particulate pollution from Canadian scientists using National Aeronautics and Space Administration satellite data. The verdict: It doesn’t look ...Read More
Beijing (AsiaNews / Agencies) - About 2 thousand angry rural people blocked the highway bridge that passes near Nangang (Shucheng County, Anhui), in July 24 to protest against a new landfill that the municipality wants to place upstream of ...Read More
