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Amid China air, water pollution, soil survey reveals century-old heavy metals
2013-04-10 09:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Soil samples across China have revealed remnants of toxic heavy metals dating back at least a century and traces of a pesticide banned in the 1980s, an environmental official said on Wednesday, revealing the extent of the country's pollution problems. Street-level anger over air pollution that blanketed many northern cities this winter spilled over into online appeals for Beijing to clean water supplies, especially after rotting corpses of thousands of pigs were found last month in a river that...
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