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After Tianjin blasts, families struggle to piece their lives back together

Blog entry by Qian Cheng | 28 December, 2015 1 comment

Just before midnight on August 12 2015, two chemical blasts ripped through Tianjin, a major port city in northeastern China, about two hours away from the capital Beijing. So powerful were the explosions they could be seen from space ...

How we responded to the crisis that was Tianjin

Blog entry by Eric Lau | 31 August, 2015 1 comment

On Wednesday 12 August, Tianjin’s Binhai port area was rocked by two enormous chemical explosions. Greenpeace East Asia's Beijing team immediately went to the scene to test, check and measure. Here’s what they found. It was...

Think Tianjin's bad? There's been more than one chemical explosion in China this year

Blog entry by Yixiu Wu | 18 August, 2015 1 comment

About a week ago, on a late Wednesday night, a sight of almost Armageddon proportions confronted the residents of Tianjin. Whether they witnessed the red and orange blaze shooting up to the sky from their apartment windows; or whether...

From Tianjin to Cancun:briefing

Publication | 4 October, 2010 at 1:13

In the wake of the Copenhagen failure of last yearʼs climate talks, the worldʼs governments now need to regroup and decide on the future they want for a climate agreement.

Caption contest: diving suits

Blog entry by JulietteH | 5 October, 2010 9 comments

The story: Greenpeace activists came as divers in their fins, mask and snorkel from the future to the Tianjin UNFCCC Climate meeting. They are warning that global warming can affect lives around the world, and urging all countries...

UPDATE: Climate negotiations from an American girl in China

Blog entry by Jess Miller | 7 October, 2010 1 comment

Tcktcktck's Paul Horsman delivers a traditional Chinese stamp to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres to mark the wall in support of collective action against climate change. Michelle Meideros writes from Tianjin...

Iceberg at Tianjin UNFCCC climate meeting

Image | 7 October, 2010 at 13:54

07 October 2010 - China. Greenpeace highlighted accelerating climate change by placing a 5.5m by 4m iceberg near where negotiators were meeting at the last set of climate negotiations before the Cancun talks in Mexico. With the banner saying...

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