China Chemical Leak Sickens 130
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A poisonous chemical leak in Xiaogan City, China, reportedly killed one man and sickened 130 other people.
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China began mopping up after sustaining heavy damage from Typhoon Aere, as the death toll from the ferocious storm continued to rise in Taiwan and the Philippines.
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By Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 12--LINFEN, China -- Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.   It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night.
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By Dale Williams  A HUGE clean-up operation was mounted in the Black Country after 60 people were evacuated and families warned to keep windows shut following a major acid spill.   A cloud of white fumes floated over part of Tipton at about 8am yesterday.
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BEIJING - The death toll in a coal-mine explosion in central China rose to 63 with 103 workers still missing, the government said today, as toxic fumes slowed rescuers from entering the pit.
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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the world&#39;s worst industrial disaster -- an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 people killed by a leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India.
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China issues emergency orders in response to a meningitis outbreak that has infected 258 people so far.
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By AUDRA ANG  BEIJING - Hundreds of people in northwestern China have been hospitalized with lead poisoning that was likely caused by pollution from a nearby smelter, state media and local officials said Wednesday.
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China&#39;s Sichuan province faced the threat of epidemics yesterday after the worst flooding in a century killed at least 172 people and
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Dozens of middle school students in southern China were sickened in a hepatitis A outbreak that authorities linked to contaminated well water and poor sanitation, the official Xinhua News Agency said Friday.
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An outbreak of blue algae in a Chinese reservoir has left nearly 25,000 people without water and 100,000 others with reduced supplies, state media said on Wednesday of the latest in a series of water pollution scares.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Mar. 11--The first sign of impending disaster would be a piercing hiss as thousands of pounds of chlorine gas rushed through a hole in one of the 4,000-gallon storage tanks at the Tarrant County Water Supply Project plant in Euless.
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China investigates reports that toothpaste exported to Central America contains a potentially deadly chemical.
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XINMI, China -- Desperate to know their loved ones' fates, grieving relatives scuffled with guards yesterday at the scene of China's worst mining accident this year as rescue workers pulled more bodies out of a mine shaft choked with poison gas.
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Top Chinese leaders have showed enormous concern over a deadly gas explosion, which took place at the Chenjiashan Coal Mine in northwest China&#39;s Shaanxi Province at 7:20 am on November 28, according to official sources.
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Chinese authorities tried to slow the spread of a toxic spill by building 51 makeshift dams along the tainted river and using fire trucks to pump out polluted water before it reaches a reservoir serving a city of 10 million people, state media said Friday.
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China has disciplined officials for a chemical leak that contaminated a river and cut off drinking water and pledged action against those responsible for two other environmental disasters, state media reported on Wednesday.