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Volunteers are tackling an outbreak of algae at Qingdao, which will host Olympic sailing events.

The algae outbreak in the Olympic sports arena outside Tsingdao city is largely contained. More than 60 thousand tons of green algae have been collected from the sea surface. Thousands people and various technologies have been used to in this massive cleaning effort.

As the weather gets warmer here in Shanghai, in another region of China, Hefei, Anhui Province, where’s China’s fifth largest lake, Chaohu Lake resides, a blue green algae outbreak was discovered, affecting at least 320,000 people who depends on it as a water source. The outbreak is caused by a rise in temperature, allowing algae growth to take place. Of course, some required chemical reagents like ammonia and nitrogen must have existed in plentiful amounts before this kind of algae can take place.

An algae cake recipe is provided to convert a pollution source to a nutrition source. Maybe we have found a new way to fight global food crisis.

The irony of Beijing's self-dubbed "Green" Olympics is as thick as the smoggy haze that shrouds it.

Beijing authorities have been working hard to rid the 2008 Olympic host city of beggars, stray cats, bad English signs, polluted air, rundown hotels, and foreign students who are seen as a political threat to the Games. Now that hand-foot-mouth disease has once again reared its ugly..

Yellow algae emerged in XiangJiang River in central China and affected water supply in at least two cities. Usually, the filtering ponds were washed every 24 to 36 hours. At present, they had to be washed each 2 hours in the most serious situation, said Yuan Cheng, ZhongHuan Water deputy general manger.

A review of China's recent inflation, brought on by rising food prices. The price of pork, one of the staples of China's diet, rose because of an outbreak of blue-ear pig disease. Doesn't this mean that environmental neglect is a direct cause of economic woes?

A 13,112-meter-long painting scroll is stretched out along the Juyongguan Pass section of the Great Wall in Beijing, capital of China, July 13, 2008, to mark the 7th anniversary of China's winning the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games