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From China's Toxics team: Fishing Near An Emissions Pipe

Posted by Gemma Freeman - 19 July 2011 at 9:56am - 1 Comment

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

Greenpeace activists protest at pipes pumping toxics into rivers

Sean of our East Asia Action and Investigations Unit in China, blogs on how toxic pollution from China's textile industry is destroying local lives - from his first hand experience.

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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

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.