The illegal dumping has caused the 2,000-meter water channel to be severely polluted, ... Jiang and Dong told police they dumped the waste acid into the river simply to avoid spending money.

Songjiang District prosecutors said Jiang hired Dong to collect 60 tons of waste acid from some 10 ... The town government paid a total of 887,266 yuan to abate the pollution and restore the ...

Though the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region — which encompasses 13 cities in northern China — experienced a net pollution decrease this year, the area saw a trend of increasing pollution in the second ...

A Chinese folk song poetically says of the Yangtze: 'A river's spring water flows east [Yi jiang chun shui, xiang dong liu].' Now, reflecting changing times, a more popular version warns: 'A river ...

According to a report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, half of the protests with more than 10,000 participants between 2001 and 2013 were sparked by concerns about pollution.

Professor Jiang says that for villagers, the lack of obvious short-term effects from the spill and ignorance of the longer-lasting health risks helped stave off public anger. Keeping a lid on ...

Worsening pollution . Experts said pollution in the Dong Nai River basin, which supplies water to around 17 million people in HCM City and nearby provinces, would continue to affect water supply since ...

Beijing No 4 Intermediate People's Court, for example, said on Wednesday that it has heard 17 civil public interest litigations since 2015, covering pollution issues relating to air, water and soil.

As many as 32 cities in northern China were under “red alert,” the most severe pollution warning in the country’s four-tier system, earlier this week. Another 27 cities, including Beijing ...