Environmental Science

28 Apr 2013

This month, climate scientist Dr James Hansen retired as head of Nasa's Goddard Institute of Space Studies. Yet at age 72, instead of aiming for a leisurely life after work, Hansen plans to better...

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How long before we can punish eco-criminals?

26 Jun 2012

There was no law against genocide in the early 1940s; it only became an internationally recognised crime after the worst genocide of modern history had actually happened. Similarly, there is no...

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Shenzhen seas seriously polluted

13 May 2012

Nearly half of Shenzhen's coastal waters were found to be seriously contaminated last year, and nine sewage drainage lines were found to be discharging excessive pollutants, according to a...

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Crises worsened by cloak of secrecy

23 Feb 2012

Environmentalists have warned for years of a looming water crisis in China. So just how far off is it now?

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Wrong side of the river

20 Feb 2012

Hechi villager Lu Yu feels frustrated and angry that his forgotten village on the right bank of a tributary of the Pearl River has been left to deal on its own with the massive toxic metal spill...

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Toxic metal spill may be worst in decades

1 Feb 2012

Environmental experts say the toxic metal contamination of a tributary of the Pearl River in Guangxi may evolve into the mainland's worst chemical spill in decades.

Local officials...

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Health warning as pollutants build in delta fish

Oysters with 740 times the safe level of copper and 90 times the cadmium limit. Big-head croaker fish with 24 times the safe level of chromium. Lizardfish with 53 times the permitted lead level...

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Idling Engines ramp up pollution

Streets full of stationary vehicles with their engines running could be 10 times more polluted than busy roads full of slow-moving traffic, new research has revealed.

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Fuel rules essential for harbour traffic

The Star Ferry is a Hong Kong icon, as much a part of our history as a tourist attraction. As such, it should be striving to reduce the amount of air pollution created by its ferries. The same...

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Pollution penalties must fit the crime

More than 1,500 kilometres separate Hong Kong and Qujing in Yunnan province, where a chemical plant dumped 5,000 tonnes of a toxic heavy metal into a major tributary of Guangdong's Pearl River...

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Traffic, not bridge, 'cause of pollution'

The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Ordinance is neither toothless nor the only legislative tool available to protect Hong Kong's environment, the Court of Appeal heard yesterday.

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Sharp decline in quality of sea water

Hot weather, heavy rainfall, pollution from the Pearl River and other unknown causes have been blamed for one of the worst declines in the quality of marine water last year.

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