Rivers Run Black, and Chinese Die of Cancer
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As urbanites with rising incomes are demanding better air and water, the countryside is increasingly becoming a dumping ground.
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Up to 75 percent of all urban Chinese suffer from ill health, and life expectancies are declining for skilled and educated workers as modern lifestyles exact a deadly toll, according to a study by the Chinese Red Cross.
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By Ma Lie  XI'AN: The Weihe River, the largest tributary of the Yellow River and the main source of water for Shaanxi Province in Northwest China is seriously short of water, according to a recent environmental investigation.
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Lucie Guo&#39;s grandfather died of cancer in China before she was born because doctors failed to detect the disease early enough to save him.
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Hundreds of fish are believed to have been killed in a pollution incident in County Antrim.
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Millions of Chinese shivered through power cuts and water shortages on Wednesday and millions more were stranded by snow that has blanketed parts of central and southern China, raising concerns about their safety.
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Floods in China killed more than 1,000 people this year, destroyed 650,000 village homes and caused 64.7 billion yuan (&#36;7.82 billion) in direct economic losses, the official Xinhua News agency said.
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China's Sichuan province faced the  threat of epidemics on Wednesday after the worst flooding in a  century killed at least 172 people and left scores missing,  while water levels at the huge Three Gorges Dam swelled.
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Floods in China killed more than 1,000  people this year, destroyed 650,000 village homes and caused  64.7 billion yuan ($7.82 billion) in direct economic losses,  the official Xinhua News agency said.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Floods in China May Worse This Year: Official" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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Boats have become a necessary means of transport in the flooded streets of Quxian, north-east of Sichuan province. Picture:Reuters.
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Chemical plant responsible for river pollution in east China shut down    HEFEI, June 22 (Xinhua) -- A chemical plant in east China's Anhui Province has been shut down after it discharged a toxic chemical into a river and sickened 61 villagers on Tuesday, the local government said.
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Science & environment: China's greatest river has fallen to its lowest level since 1866, threatening endangered species
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More than 5,000 wild animals have been found abandoned and close to death on a broken-down fishing boat off the coast of southern China, state media reported Friday.
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38 bln tons of waste water flows into China's three major rivers last year    BEIJING, Dec.
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Water supplies to 200,000 people in eastern China were cut for 40 hours due to groundwater pollution, allegedly from chemical plants, state media reported Wednesday.
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A Thai medic sprays disinfectant over the rotting corpses of those killed in Sunday&#39;s tidal waves at a Buddhist temple in Pang-Nga province, southern Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004.