China - the World's Largest Emitter of Greenhouse Gases ( 07-05-08 )

Anyone looking for why the world should care about China's economy and its propensity to grow at double-digit rates may have found it not in Beijing on the 19th April 2007, but in Paris, at the International Energy Agency （IEA）. According to the IEA, the country – whose economy expanded by 11.1 per cent in the first quarter – could overtake the US as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2007 or in 2008. This is at least 12 months earlier than its recent estimate of 2009. “If ...

Air Pollution Prevention and Control in Major Cities ( 06-10-10 )

Prevention and control of air pollution has been attempted in 113 major cities. Out of the 113 cities targeted, 33 cities met Grade Ⅱ air qualities standard, amounting to 29.2%. 51 met Grade Ⅲ standard, accounting for 45.1%; 29 experienced the quality of air to be worse than Grade Ⅲ, taking up 25.7% of the total. Compared with the last year, the number of cities meeting air quality standard declined by 4, but the number of cities with quality of air worse than Grade Ⅲ standard was down 7. 20 ...

Discharged Amount of Wastewater and Major Pollutants ( 06-10-10 )

Total amount of discharged wastewater in 2004 was 48.24 billion tons, of which the discharged industrial effluent was 22.11 billion tons and domestic sewage 26.13 billion tons. The discharged amount of COD was 13.392 million tons, of which the amount of industrial COD was 5.097 million tons and domestic COD 8.295 million tons. The discharged amount of ammonia nitrogen was 1.33 million tons, of which 422,000 tons were from industries and 908,000 tons from domestic source. ...

Emission Amount of Major Air Pollutants ( 06-10-10 )

The total amount of SO2 emission was 22.549 million tons across China in 2004, among which 18.914 million tons were from industrial sources, and 3.635 million tons from domestic sources. The emission of soot was 10.95 million tons, among which 8.865 million tons were from industries and 2.085 million tons from domestic sources. The total emission of industrial dust was 9.04 million ...

General Observations on China’s Marine Environment ( 06-10-10 )

According to a study conducted in 2004, it was revealed that most coastal sea areas in China enjoyed good water quality. Only some areas suffered from deterioration in the level of quality. It was also concluded that in general the quality of water in high lying seas areas remained at a higher level. Out of the 246 coastal monitoring stations in mainland China, 49.6% of them met Grade I ~ II marine water quality standards, which was very much similar to that of the previous year; 15.4% of them ...

Mobilization of water resources II ( 06-10-10 )

Red Tides ( 06-10-10 )

The General Atmospheric Environment ( 06-10-10 )

Water Quality of Dianchi Lake ( 06-10-10 )

Status Quo of Air Quality ( 06-09-27 )

Lhasa's air quality betters a bit ( 06-09-15 )

Scientists decoded air pollution in glaciers of Tianshan Mountains ( 06-08-21 )

Acid Rain ( 06-08-11 )

Air Quality in Key Cities on Pollution Prevention and Control ( 06-08-11 )

Atmospheric Environment ( 06-08-11 )

Emission Amount of Major Air Pollutants ( 06-08-11 )

Major pollutants in the air ( 06-08-11 )