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, Twitter and Pinterest. Read more >

• Transparency celebrated and lamented at China environmental journalism awards. (Guardian)
  
  
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Drinking tea is an essential and much cherished part of Chinese culture. It's the pride of the nation, so to speak, and this tea is exported to around the globe. But is China's tea actually safe to drink?

A few months ago we bought 18 tea products ... Read more >

Early one morning in 2011, environmentalist Lei Yuting was crouched by the side of the Fenghua River, which snakes through the Chinese province of Ningbo. Despite his face mask and protective goggles he could smell the chemical dyes that polluted th... Read more >

One of the best foreign reporters in China, Jonathan Watts of the Guardian, produced this video report on the North-Western province of Gansu, which is on the frontline of the nation's efforts to invest in renewable energy.

The remote, wind-blast... Read more >

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, Twitter and Pinterest. Read more >

• China to restrict coal demand, output to 3.9 billion tons. (Bloomberg)
  
  
• China: a decade of...