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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Green movements or green paint China's central government faces a choice between democracy and eco-collapse	Jon Rynn	27 Aug 2007	Gristmill
'Choking on Growth' is the apt title of the new New York Times series on the 'human toll, global impact and political challenge of China's epic pollution crisis.' Epic, indeed. The first installment shows how 'As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes.' The statistics are daunting: Public health is reeling. Pollution has made cancer China's leading cause of death... Nearly 500 million people lack access to safe drinking water. Chinese cities often seem wrapped in a ...
Topics: air pollution, China, greenhouse-gas emissions, health, international politics, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

And Now for Something Completely Familiar China's environment still terribly polluted, getting worse		27 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
And Now for Something Completely Familiar China's environment still terribly polluted, getting worse Almost nowhere else on earth today is a source for so much environmental gloom and doom as China. To sum up: It's bad. In fact, for those prone to hopelessness ... read on, there's plenty to get depressed about. Nearly 500 million people in China lack access to safe drinking water. About 750,000 people die every ...
Topics: air pollution, China, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Enough already, China! You're killing me! A scary/funny post from China	Jerome Woody	17 Jul 2007	Gristmill
I found this in my Google Reader feed this morning, a post from a British blogger named Charlie living in Beijing. Three weeks after it was reported that the Chinese government convinced the World Bank to suppress a report that over 700,000 Chinese citizens die every year of pollution-related ailments, due to the fact that it may lead to revolution social unrest among the populace, Charlie's post reads like a bittersweet valentine to the city he's lived in for four year ...
Topics: air pollution, China, food, green living, water pollution (all these topics)

That's a Mighty Full Circular File Faced with rampant pollution, China reports increase in citizen protests		05 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
That's a Mighty Full Circular File Faced with rampant pollution, China reports increase in citizen protests The sorry state of air and water quality in China has led to rising public protests, says a top environment agent there -- and citizens and officials alike are urging the country to crack down on polluters. In the first five months of 2007, the State Environmental Protecti ...
Topics: air pollution, business, China, grassroots activism, news, water pollution (all these topics)

The most polluted city on earth	David Roberts	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Linfen, China. Yuck.
Topics: air pollution, China, water pollution (all these topics)

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