pollution in China

The issue of air quality and lung cancer in China is more life-threatening than the SARS virus outbreak of 2003, according to a respiratory disease expert.

Residents in a Chinese coastal province tried to block the expansion of a chemical factory with massive protests over multiple days recently, despite harsh police suppression and a media blackout.

Birth defect rate rises as experts question the official platitudes.

Natural latex polluted more than a mile of a stretch of the Quxi River in China’s Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, turning it into what was described as a “river of milk,”

Lop Nor was once a 1.3 million acre lake in the Taklamakan desert of Xinjiang Autonomous Region until the Chinese military set up a secret nuclear test site in June 1959, detonating 45 nuclear bombs between 1964 and 1996. A Chinese military veteran, using the alias Liu Qing, told The Epoch Times in an exclusive interview about his experiences while serving in the nuclear unit and being sent for prolonged military exercises at ground zero.

A river in China is poisoned with the toxic chemical cadmium, but a local hospital put up a notice forbidding doctors from diagnosing patients with cadmium poisoning.

Hospitals in Beijing are jammed and stores have been depleted of breathing masks as the city’s air quality has deteriorated to the point that flights have been delayed and residents are trapped in their homes.

Yangtze pollution affects drinking water of 550 million people. Authorities “keep one eye shut.”