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China admits widespread soil pollution

2014-04-18 07:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Financial Times: One-fifth of Chinas agricultural land is polluted, particularly in the countrys southern rice baskets, according to a sobering government report previously classified as a state secret. Soil pollution, including hazardous levels of cadmium, nickel, arsenic, lead and mercury, is particularly pronounced in the Yangtze and Pearl River Deltas, and generally in the south where rice is grown, the report said. Previous exposés by Chinese media had found severe cadmium pollution in rice grown in the...

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