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The poor air followed three days of blue skies, that had led Chinese officials to trumpet the success of drastic anti-pollution measures.

All these stories and speculation about poor old BJ and her pre-olypmic pollution woes! How about some good ol' facts 'n' figures to drive a stake into her public relations heart?!?!?! Aiya! (sigh!)

Earlier this week Katherine Bruce Mechner from The Alliance for Greener Industry in China sent me an email to let me know that a map of China's Air pollution had been completed and was now full operating in Chinese. It is a sister database to their previous water pollution database, and like that one, it is an excellent resource.

ESWN takes a critical look at why the headline "750,000 a year killed by Chinese pollution" is not a fair or informed one. His analysis raises the question of whether or not that number is actually not too bad.

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A flash animation to go back to the roots of the air pollution problem which is causing so much troubles to Beijing government these days...

A funny thing happened just before Beijing was scheduled to test their anti-air pollution campaign: they canceled it. if Beijing is not even willing to execute an extended practice run for air pollution reduction, you must question the political will needed to make a positive impression on the world

Uncovering distortion and conspiracy in China's attempts to convince the world its air is clean.

Stranded ships, plagues of rats, pollution: Is China's mighty Yangtze river on the brink of environmental disaster ?

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?