More than 10 legal advisory agencies have shown interest in handling a suit being brought against US-based oil company ConocoPhillips over environmental damage caused by oil spills in Bohai Bay, maritime authorities announced on Thursday….
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Wang Jianyou, a resident of Xinglong village, shows on Sunday the bugs he eats every day. Wang, a lung cancer patient, believes eating 50 bugs a day will help to relieve the symptoms of his…
A pond in Qujing, Yunnan province, which was heavily contaminated by illegally dumped toxic industrial waste. [Provided to China Daily] BEIJING – More than 5,000 tons of highly toxic industrial waste were dumped illegally in…
Tropical storm Mufia leaves a dike breached near the Fujia parayxlene plant in Dalian on August 8. Authorities in China’s northeastern city of Dalian ordered a chemical plant to be “immediately” shut down after a…
HOHHOT – More than 370,000 people and 580,000 livestock living in pasture areas in the western part of North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region are having difficulties securing drinking water due to a severe drought….
URUMQI – Twenty-one people were left injured after a 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit NorthwestChina’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region Thursday afternoon, local authorities said Friday. The quake rocked a border area between the region’s city of Atux…
Dead fish are seen in Zijiang River in Xinshao county, Central China’s Hunan province, August 11, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] CHANGSHA – A large number of fish were found dead over the past week in a river…
BEIJING – Following the continuing oil leak in Bohai Bay, experts warned that fast offshore development is polluting China’s fragile sea. With marine economy becoming another engine for the country’s economy in the 12th Five-Year…
A man looks at an oil slick off the coast of Tianjin in North China on August 3. Authorities can not confirm whether it was the result of oil spills in Bohai Bay. Photo: CFP…
Shanghai water management authorities are seeking cooperation from Zhejiang and Jiangsu government authorities in managing excessive duckweed growth along its waters, after the most serious outbreak of the plant in a decade has affected waterways…