In 2010 Chinese journalist Deng Fei published a Google Map that highlighted some of the country's many 'cancer villages' - a name bestowed to hot-spots of unusually high numbers of cancer victims. Such villages are often blighted with pollution, whi... Read more >

While the Hong Kong people celebrate another electricity subsidy as part of the budget handouts, they might not notice that the real winners are the two big power companies. This so-called "one-off" subsidy has been given out four times since 2008 a... 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 >

• Photos of trash heaps made to look like Chinese landscape paintings. (PetaPixel)
  
  
• Deteriorating water...

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• Deng Fei wants Chinese netizens to show him a dirty river. (Shanghaiist)
  
  
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Last week we heard, for the first time, the Chinese government acknowledge the existence of ‘cancer villages’. 

When our campaigner Mariah Zhao went to visit one such village in China's Jiangsu province, back in 2009, here is what she had to say: 

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 >

• Banned carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes found in Shanghai school uniforms. (Shanghaiist)
  
  
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Every year, over the Chinese New Year holiday, Beijing gets a reprieve from the smoggy days pictured above. Now is the perfect time to clear one's head and think seriously about how to tackle the city's ongoing pollution problem.

There are two big ... 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 >

• Before and after slideshow of Chinese New Year fireworks in Zhushan, China. The resulting ...

This was originally posted on Greenpeace International on January 31, 2013.

Sometimes the longest struggles can be the most rewarding.

After ten months of #PeoplePowered activities and behind-the-scenes haggling, G-Star has committed to eliminate ... Read more >

This was originally posted on Greenpeace International on January 22, 2013.

Limited Brands – owner of iconic underwear labels Victoria’s Secret and La Senza – has bowed to public pressure and committed to eliminate all hazardous chemicals from its ... Read more >