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Time the MEP walk its talk

Blog entry by Li Shuo | 2013-05-21

For residents in Beijing and many other eastern parts of China, this spring means another choking season of air pollution and a few more months of waiting for real cleanup action. Earlier in March, at a press conference of the...

Would you fish in this river?

Image | 2013-05-20 at 6:00 2 comments

View from Qiantangjiang Dam. Many villagers use this part of the river for fishing and have little choice but to bear the pollution. The pollution is caused by wastewater from the nearby textile industry in Hangzhou, China. Dongying Wei and...

Best of the rest: what we clicked on this week around the web

Blog entry by Monica Tan | 2013-05-17

Every Friday we round-up the links that picked up buzz on the internet. Most of them we also shared throughout the week on Facebook  and  Twitter . MEP upholds that soil pollution data is a 'state secret' . (The Economic...

Indonesia: Paradise islands under threat

Blog entry by Suvi Rautio | 2013-05-16

Indonesia is a tropical archipelago rich in biodiversity, home to around 10-15% of the known species of plants, mammals and birds to this earth. It is also a heavily populated country with a host of critical environmental problems and...

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