Lawyer Cheng Hai has an itemized list of compensation demands from Beijing authorities over the city’s smog: 65 yuan for having to buy face masks, 100 yuan for seeing a doctor for a sore throat and 9,999 yuan for emotional distress. Fed up with what they consider halfhearted efforts to fight air pollution, Cheng and like-minded lawyers are putting China’s legal system to the test by suing the governments of the capital and its surrounding regions.
Category: Environment
Agriculture seen as No 2 environmental problem
Results of the 2016 Public Perceptions of New Zealand’s Environment survey were revealed on February 17 in an 82-page report by Profs Ken Hughey, Geoff Kerr, and Ross Cullen. Asked to identify the most important environmental issues facing New Zealand today, 31.1% of survey respondents said ”water related”, 9.9% said ”agriculture related”, 8.8% said ”greenhouse gases, climate change and ozone”, and 8.4% said ”waste”.
India will soon have its own liveability index
Taking a leaf out of international practice of rating cities on liveability, India is all set to introduce its own liveability index. NEW DELHI: You would soon know how liveable your city is.
The Importance of Regulating Lead in Drinking Water
New York City’s drinking water is among the best in the world, but the high quality of water delivered to some of our buildings may become contaminated within our buildings. Many of our buildings are decades old, some from the 19th century, and they contain decaying pipes and fixtures that may have toxics accumulating in them.
Pervasive charcoal trade getting major rethink in Haiti
Pungent wood smoke wafts daily across the hinterlands of Haiti’s southern peninsula, where villagers stack smoldering wood beneath dirt mounds to make the charcoal that nearly all the urban households in the country use to cook every meal. For decades, authorities and development workers have denounced such rural charcoal makers for stripping the nation’s forests, sending topsoil to sea and helping make Haiti the poorest country in the Americas.
Study indicates air-polluting chemicals can travel far
A new study indicates that tiny floating particles can grow semi-solid around pollutants, allowing them to last longer and travel much farther than what previous global climate models predicted. Pollutants from fossil fuel burning, forest fires and biofuel consumption include air-polluting chemicals known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs.
Reusable sanitary pads: Wash, dry and reuse
A reusable sanitary pads with flaps and fasteners at the side. With access to these, many girls would not absent themselves from school during menstruation .
Tale of two cities: Tauranga overtakes Dunedin to become country’s fifth biggest city
Population estimates by Statistics New Zealand reveal Tauranga has overtaken Dunedin’s population of 127,000, clocking in at 128,200 people in 2016. The southern city’s population increased an estimated 6200 between 1996 and 2016, while booming Tauranga’s population grew by 48,400 over the same period.