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. Read more >

• MEP upholds that soil pollution data is a 'state secret'. (The Economic Observer)
  
  
• Shanghai citizens ...

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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 is a major con...

2013 is proving to be a critical year in the shaping of a future electricity market for Hong Kong. While the Government will soon review the "scheme of control" agreements (SOC) with the city's two power companies, an inter-departmental steering com... 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 and Twitter. Read more >

• New travel accessory for Beijing: gas masks. (Bloomberg Businessweek)
  
  
• 28,000 rivers disappeared in C...

At 10:48 am on 17 April in Beijing, Greenpeace made a bit of history: we joined the first batch of around 50 rooftop solar PV projects that connected to the grid in China.

And to our surprise, we learned that our modest five-kilowatt solar system i... Read more >

This was originally posted on Greenpeace International on April 23, 2013.

You have seen air pollution before, but not in this way. Beijing’s hazardou... 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 and Twitter. Read more >

• Lu Guang's 'The Polluted Landscape': an audio slideshow. (Guardian)
  
  
• Greenhouse gases make high tempe...

China’s air pollution crisis is more evident than ever. A new research report, conducted under the World Health Organization’s Global Burden of Disease project, shows that over 1.2 million premature deaths were caused by PM2.5 pollution (fine partic... 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 and Twitter. Read more >

• China climate chief says EU CO2 crisis will not hurt domestic plans. (Reuters)
  
  
• Pictures: Strong eart...

The major impact that international summits and treaties have had on China’s environmental governance is often overlooked. Environmental protection first emerged as an issue in China in 1972, after the country dispatched a delegation to the UN Confe... Read more >