New research shows extreme air pollution in China could severely impact agriculture and food supplies, because it is blocking out the light plants need for photosynthesis.
In China, officials’ performance ratings are closely tied to the growth of the gross domestic product. The result has been an environmental catastrophe, including the existence of hundreds of “cancer villages.”
More than a dozen police officers from around China gathered in Beijing recently to protest Party corruption in the political and legal system, and in an open letter to the authorities they called for fair treatment of their complaints.