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The Songhua Remains the Same Pollution from November spill in China still taints downstream waterways		01 May 2006	Daily Grist
The Songhua Remains the Same Pollution from November spill in China still taints downstream waterways Months after a factory explosion in China dumped benzene and other chemicals into the Songhua River, thawing ice is releasing a second wave of toxins into downstream waterways near Khabarovsk, Russia. More than half a million residents of the city have been advised not to drink their strongly chemical-s ...
Topics: China, news, rivers and watersheds, Russia, toxics (all these topics)

You Be Spillin' China faces two more toxic river crises		10 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
You Be Spillin' China faces two more toxic river crises Two new toxic spills have hit rivers in central China. Last week, cadmium seeped out of silt dredged in a cleanup effort on the industrialized Xiangjiang River, contaminating a 60-odd mile stretch of the waterway, and a broken pipe at a power plant dumped six tons of diesel fuel into a tributary of the Yellow River. Chinese officials are down ...
Topics: China, news, rivers and watersheds, toxics, Yellow River (all these topics)

Fry Me a River China's benzene spill flows toward Siberian tiger territory in Russia		07 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Fry Me a River China's benzene spill flows toward Siberian tiger territory in Russia China's latest claim to international infamy -- a Songhua River-borne, 100-ton, 90-odd-mile-long benzene spill -- is expected to reach the Russian city of Khabarovsk, on the Amur River, next week. Conservationists in the region worry that the toxic slick will further imperil the extremely endangered Siberian tiger, whic ...
Topics: China, news, rivers and watersheds, Russia, toxics (all these topics)

Hubris on the Yangtze	Worldwatch Institute	24 Nov 2003	Counter Culture
Photo: Friends of the Earth International. 555 -- height, in feet, of the Washington Monument, the tallest structure in Washington, D.C. 575 -- height, in feet, of the new Three Gorges Dam in China (which is also wider than 100 Washington Monuments standing edge to edge) 4.3 million -- cubic meters of concrete needed to build the Panama Canal 26.4 million -- cubic meters of concrete needed to build the Three Gorges Dam 80 -- number of cr ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, rivers and watersheds, Yangtze River (all these topics)

Our Gorge Is Rising		02 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Our Gorge Is Rising China yesterday blocked the flow of the Yangtze River by closing gates at the massive Three Gorges Dam and began to fill up what will be the world's largest reservoir. It's a joyous occasion for government engineers and Communist Party faithful who have long touted the coming benefits of hydroelectric power and flood control, an ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics, water pollution, Yangtze River (all these topics)

Gorging Themselves		20 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Gorging Themselves China's controversial Three Gorges dam looks like small potatoes next to the country's latest proposed water project, a gargantuan network of dams and canals designed to divert water from the south to thirsty northern cities such as Beijing. The project would cost $60 billion over 50 years (twice as muc ...
Topics: Asia, China, dams, energy, international government agencies, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, wetlands, Yangtze River (all these topics)

Barking Up the Right Tree		15 May 2002	Daily Grist
Barking Up the Right Tree Apparently spooked by a recent history of devastating floods and blinding sandstorms, China has unveiled a plan to plant trees on almost 200,000 square miles of land in an effort to reverse rampant deforestation. The plan, which Chinese officials call the largest conservation effort ever attempted, will cost an estimated $12 billion over 10 years and restore trees to an area larger than Ge ...
Topics: China, rivers and watersheds, wilderness (all these topics)

A River Doesn't Run Through It		04 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
A River Doesn't Run Through It The Yellow River is China's second-longest river and the cradle of a 4,000-year-old civilization; now, though, it's drying up and life along its banks is changing forever. Much of the water in the Yellow River is diverted to arid inner provinces for agricultural purposes, leaving areas downstream without a stream at all. For example, in Shandong, the last province before the river meets the Yellow ...
Topics: China, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Flood Insurance		15 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Flood Insurance Chinese officials and the United Nations Environment Programme hope a $10 million plan to restore lakes and reduce logging and erosion will prevent a repeat of the disastrous 1998 flooding of the Yangtze River. Severe environmental degradation exacerbated the effects of heavy rainfalls that year, causing floods that killed upwards of 3,60 ...
Topics: China, environmental restoration, land degradation, rivers and watersheds, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

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