Fieldwork

Greenpeace protestors bring attention to pipes pumping toxics into China's rivers

Greenpeace protestors bring attention to pipes pumping toxics into China's river
Author Credit:  © Greenpeace
Date Taken:  18 July, 2011

From our China team: how to lose a foot on fieldwork

Posted by louise - 14 July 2011 at 10:52am - 7 Comments
Zhong Yu during the clean-up of the Dalian oil spill
All rights reserved. Credit: © Lu Guang / Greenpeace
Zhong Yu during the clean-up of the Dalian oil spill

Zhong Yu has worked for Greenpeace in China for over seven years and has witnessed some of the most devastating environmental disasters there from rapid glacier retreat on the Himalayas, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake to last summer’s devastating Dalian oil spill. Here, she writes about the undercover research behind our latest report, which exposes the terrible impact that China’s growing textile industry is having on the country’s rivers.