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seeingredinchina.com — On Friday morning I was taking a group of foreign guests to visit sites around Nanjing when a heavy smog blanketed the city in a yellow stench. It seemed as if every family in the city of over 7 million had lit a pile of tires ablaze. Within 20 minutes of being outside I started feeling asthma like symptoms, meaning that it actually hurt to breathe.

www.guardian.co.uk — Poor weather conditions this year are partly responsible. But putting the blame on them overlooks the role played by the colossal Three Gorges reservoir, 500km upstream. The cause and effect is still not officially recognised, even if the government did admit last May that the planet's biggest dam had given rise to "problems that need to be solved very urgently".

www.myweathertech.com — China says the radioactive contamination in the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima nuclear power plant is far wider than the areas released by the Japanese government.
China has discovered 100,000 square miles of Pacific Ocean waters, at distances up to 800 kilometers from Fukushima, with Cesium radiation levels up to 300 times normal and Strontium radiation levels up to 100 times normal.

www.china-underground.com — Qingdao beach after an invasion of sea lettuce. Many species of sea lettuce are a food source for humans in many countries, However, rotting leaves produce large quantities of hydrogen sulphide, a toxic gas.

www.chinadialogue.net — In the middle ground between booming cities and rural villages, rubbish is causing friction. Yang Chuanmin visits a Shanghai family, who blame a plastics-recycling centre for the death of their child.

www.reuters.com — The congenial Professor Duan Xuru doesn't look like a stereotypical mad scientist as he shows guests into a cluttered laboratory filled with canisters, vacuum pumps and patched-up pipes tied together with spirals of blue wire and rubber tubing. But Duan, based in Chengdu, is working on an audacious project described as a "man-made sun".

chovanec.wordpress.com — This article offers an interesting context to the story about the recent sacking of China's Rail Minister, Liu Zhijun, highlighted in the New York Times article put forward by China Travel yesterday: 'Currently, China’s conventional rail system is stretched to capacity carrying two commodities: coal and people.

www.guardian.co.uk — Tweets from the US embassy's air quality monitoring station raise questions over truth of official pollution statistics.

www.wantchinatimes.com — The cost for China's thermal power plants to meet new emissions standards could be up to US$17 billion per year, a tall order for power companies that are already losing money.

online.wsj.com — A Chinese environmental-protection agency ordered production suspended at two factories, including a Shanghai battery plant operated by U.S.-based Johnson Controls Inc., after detecting elevated lead levels in some area children.