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Greenpeace sampling finds 93% of corn grown in China’s ‘breadbasket’ province of illegal GE strain.
Beijing, 6 January, 2016 – A Greenpeace East Asia investigation into corn production in Liaoning Province, one of China’s major breadbaskets, has found that 93% of random field samples and 20 of 21 samples from grain markets and supermarkets in the area tested positive for illegal genetically engineered (GE) contamination. The commercial production of GE…
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After Tianjin, families struggle to piece their lives back together
Just before midnight on August 12 2015, two blasts ripped through the Binhai New Area port of Tianjin. The blasts were so powerful that they could be seen from space and terrifying footage of the explosions was circulated around the world. 203 people lost their lives that night- and thousands more were left homeless, injured,…
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Recent wave of enforcement could be vanishing vaquita’s saving grace
This month sees three significant actions to tackle Hong Kong’s underground totoaba trade – the force that’s driving vaquitas to extinction
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Greenpeace urges Hong Kong to join ‘Buy Nothing Day’ and stop over-consumption
Hong Kong, 27 November 2015 ¬– Greenpeace marked today’s international Buy Nothing Day by highlighting Hong Kong’s wastefulness: last year the region discarded 110,000 tonnes of textiles, equivalent to about 1,400 T-Shirts every minute – an amount that could cover 25,000 Hong Kong Stadiums.
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What will it take for Beijing to call a Red Alert on pollution?
Beijing is currently suffering through a 4th continuous day of ‘Airpocalypse’. The city is blanketed in a thick, choking smog that has covered an area of North China the size of Spain and Beijing’s most famous landmarks have been completely obscured by the yellow haze.
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The New Organic Farmers: the individuals who connect people and the environment
Our broken food system
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You Are What You Eat
Chinese culture puts a strong emphasis on food. Dining is a moment of sharing between family and friends, and food is seen as a source of health and a representation…
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Nature lovers say NO to PFCs
Today, 250 nature lovers and green activists used their bodies to say NO to PFCs in West Beijing's beautiful Mentougou Water Spirit Village.
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Paradise Lost? Hazardous chemicals have reached the furthest corners of our planet
In June, we set out on a mission: to find out if the stunning nature that we love is as unspoiled as it appears. Eight teams of Greenpeace volunteers headed expeditions across three continents to the most remote and pristine places on the planet.
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