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460 million people in China are choking on dirty air
460 million people in China are currently choking under a cloud of smog larger than North America. China needs to speed up its renewables revolution!
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Smog engulfs area home to 460 million citizens as Northern China sees worst air pollution of 2016 – Greenpeace
Beijing, 20 December 2016 - Northern China’s 23-city air pollution red alert has become the most serious air pollution episode of the year, affecting a population equivalent to that of the US, Canada and Mexico combined. Approximately 200 million citizens across six provinces are experiencing “hazardous” levels of smog, and a further 260 million seeing…
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Red alert: What’s happening with Beijing’s air pollution?
As Beijingers wait to be engulfed by a slow-moving cloud of smog, data shows that air pollution progress is stalling.
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Beijing’s first air pollution red alert of 2016, coal burning the culprit – Greenpeace
Beijing, 16 December, 2016 - A Greenpeace East Asia analysis of air pollution statistics identifies industrial coal burning in Beijing’s surrounding provinces as the primary source of the pollution which has triggered the red alert measures for 16-21 December. Greenpeace East Asia calls on the government to accelerate China’s economic transition, further curb coal consumption…
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Samsung, it’s time to share your plan for 4.3 million recalled #GalaxyNote7
It’s been over a month since Samsung announced the recall of its Galaxy Note 7 and , although we have had some progress, Samsung has still not announced what it…
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Friday Five: the fight for Poyang lake and is China digging more coal?
China’s bumpy energy transition hit the headlines this week as the government eases curbs on production, China’s conservationists fight to protect one of the last habitats of the Yangtze finless…
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Friday Five: China calls out trump and Beijing’s smog worsens
China to Donald Trump: No, We Didn’t Invent Climate Change [Time] Oh how we LOL-ed when Donald Trump first posted what seemed like just another outlandish tweet back in 2012. Four years later, faced…
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From Student Environmentalist to Solar Pioneer
Miao Xin gives a presentation on his solar financing platform at PowerLab in Shanghai, 4 November 2016. From eccentric student environmentalist, to distributed solar pioneer, Miao Xin is one of…
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Media Update: Beijing PM2.5 carcinogen concentration falls as less coal burnt
Beijing, 14 November, 2016 - In 2013 Greenpeace East Asia, in collaboration with the Public Health Faculty of Peking University, reported that PM2.5 in Beijing contained levels of the heavy metal and group 1 carcinogen, arsenic, 3.85 times higher than the national standard.[1] The report also found worryingly high levels of two other carcinogens, cadmium…
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Singles Day is a disaster for our pockets, and the planet
Last year, China’s biggest shopping festival saw 125,000 orders processed every minute over 24 hours. This year promises to be even bigger... and that’s bad news for the environment.
