Soil

Pollution devastates rural areas, threatens farmland

10 Apr 2013

Zhuang Guotai, the Ministry of Environmental Protection's director of nature and ecology conservation, said the accumulation of fertiliser, pesticides and animal waste - as well governments'...

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China Digest, March 11, 2013

11 Mar 2013

The municipal government plans to buy 5,000 electric vehicles this year, the Beijing Times reports. Most of the vehicles will be used by civil servants or bus companies for public transport.

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Province is drying up

26 Sep 2011

Jilin province's desertification has created environmental problems not only for its cities but also for nearby provinces and even Beijing.

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No need to remove trees from HK's maintained slopes to stop them falling

23 May 2011

Whenever there is heavy rainfall we can expect reports of collapsed trees, such as the one that fell on a passing car in Tai Hang Road (and was featured on your front page photo on May 14)....

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Villagers clash amid bid to fix dump site

16 Oct 2009

The row over illegal dumping of waste in Ho Sheung Heung escalated into a clash between villagers yesterday, and police had to be called to intervene.

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New bid to 'restore' land trashed by dumping

14 Oct 2009

Three months after a tract of New Territories farmland was smothered in illegally dumped construction waste - and as efforts involving several government departments to have it cleared remain...

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Opinion

Hari Kumar

Workers pay the price for our bargains

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Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

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Saplings planted in bid to show not all waste has to go

Sheung Shui land covered with illegally dumped construction waste was transformed into an instant plantation yesterday in an effort by rural leaders to head off government action.

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Manual aims to ensure volunteers are sitting pretty

Keep legs loosely crossed at the ankle, chest erect, lips slightly closed, chin forward and smile with both eyes facing forwards.

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The sand that we see

A sandy beach is made up trillions of tiny grains of rock ranging from 0.0625 to 2 millimetres across.

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SOIL EROSION IS CAUSING CROP FAILURE

Erosion of the black soil in China's chief agricultural area has caused crop failures, a Ministry of Water Resources taskforce reports.

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Edge (HK)

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Policy was misguided

I would like to respond to a number of letters and articles that have appeared in these columns and in the South China Morning Post on the subject of shotcreting of slopes.

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