Tragedy struck already water-parched northern China when a diesel oil pipeline owned by China National Petroleum spilled into the Yellow River yesterday. The compromised pipeline was sealed Wednesday after 150,000 liters of oil spilled into the nearby Wei river, an upstream tributary of China's second longest river in Shaanxi province. Attempts to contain the leak through diversion channels and floating damns ultimately failed: as a result, the spillage that finally leaked into the Yellow river has made the main source of water for millions of people undrinkable. With Beijing already sapping nearby water reserves, the spill could be devastating for much of the northern populace.
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Massive oil leak renders Yellow River non potable
Less Blessed: Anyemaqen, Glaciers and the Yellow River
China Green has released another great look at some of the environmental problems plaguing this country. This time around, we head to the Tibetan plateau's Anyemaqen mountain range and the effects of climate change there. As explained on their website:
Today's Links: More iPhone, Mao food and TV porn
"This, ladies and gentlemen, is the perfect example of how an otherwise intelligent person can make a huge, expensive mistake in China."
"Its author, the often wily and sometimes wobbly Winopete, has now relocated to Shanghai and turned his pen and liver loose."
"What distinguishes Collection' from those other shows is that Wang destroys any pieces that are found to be counterfeit."
"Shanghai will take measures to preserve and further explore the 19 uninhabited islands which scatter across the sea near the city ..."
"A limited number of train cars will be added next month, but they won't be able to fully handle the increased passenger load caused by the rapid expansion of the city's underground."
"Users will receive a barcode-like SMS after they purchase their air tickets."
"You can see from above, it's chicken soup, some garlic sprouts with pork, some really fatty meat - I was told it's good for your brain, and that it was Mao Zedong's favorite food, huh!"
"According to officials of the Beijing-based Whaleinside Culture Corp, which opened Asia's first dark restaurant in Beijing on December 22, the Shanghai outlet will be set up in one of the busiest commercial centers."
"The pornography was shown late January 16 and early the next day on a station in Pingshan county in Hebei province, the Beijing Morning Post said Monday, adding the broadcast 'caused a bad social effect.'"
The deceased reporter was going to report on the mine owner's operations, and apparently the mine owner wasn't willing to accept an interview, and sent as many as twenty men to deliver the message to the reporter and his colleague.
Out of the more than 150 species of fish living in the Yellow River, only 2/3 are left.
Yet another casualty of the Olympics.
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Extra! Extra! Abuse, chemical spills and top-secret weather
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Extra! Extra! Mumbai, jailed reporters and self-immolation
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Extra! Extra! Torture, TomKat and turkey
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Looks like someone didn't eat their noodles
While noodling through a newspaper Shanghaiist came upon the story of an interesting archaeological find in Qinghai province: a remarkably well preserved bowl of mian that had been sitting there for 4,000 years. That's older than some of the stuff in our fridge.
Shanghai's cost of living and central heating south of the Yangtze
Teachers' salaries, the burbs and long underwear
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