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The UKs air will remain polluted until 2030, government reveals
2014-07-11 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The government has revealed that Britains largest cities are unlikely to meet EU air quality standards before 2030, retreating from its previous claim that the UK will have clean air by 2025. Legal limits of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution will not be reached in London, Birmingham and Leeds until 2030, the UK government has told an EU court, after the court launched legal action against the UK for its bad quality air earlier this year. The deadline is later than what previously promised,...
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China says more than half of its groundwater is polluted
2014-04-23 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Nearly 60% of the groundwater at sites monitored throughout China is of poor or extremely poor quality, with excessive amounts of pollutants, according to an annual report by the Ministry of Land and Resources. Tests at 4,778 monitoring sites across China showed a slight increase in polluted sites over last year, from 57.4% to 59.6%, according to the report, released late on Tuesday. Beijing has been responding to public demands for transparency in environmental data. Last week, the government...
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One-fifth of Chinas farmland polluted
2014-04-18 13:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: As much as 16% of Chinas soil is contaminated by dangerous pollutants, according to newly released information from the national environment ministry. The report, based on a seven-year survey covering 2.4 million square miles, found that about 16% of the country`s soil and 19% of its arable land was polluted. Some 82.8% of the contaminated samples contained toxic inorganic pollutants, such as nickel, mercury, arsenic, and lead. The report said it was certain that agricultural production...
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One fifth of China farmland polluted
2014-04-18 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: New report confirms scale of China's soil pollution problem with 20% of farmland contaminated Share Tweet this Email A new government report estimates that a fifth of China's farmland is polluted. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters A fifth of China's farmland is polluted, according to an offical report based on the results of an extensive survey. Soil pollution has long been a concern in China due to the country's rapid industrialisation and the report carried on the website of the Ministry of Environmental...
China's war on smog will be won or lost in polluted Hebei
2014-03-30 23:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China's war on pollution is only a few weeks old, but the battle lines are already being drawn between Beijing and Hebei, the province most synonymous with dirty air. A succession of Hebei officials used the annual session of parliament in Beijing this month to urge the central government to boost subsidies to help with job losses and other costs from mandated cuts in industrial production across the country. One local official said Hebei was taking on too much of the burden. The pleas came...
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