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The immense population growth in the People's Republic of China since the 1980s has resulted in increased soil pollution. [citation needed] The State Environmental Protection Administration believes it to be a threat to the environment, food safety and sustainable agriculture. 38,610 square miles (100,000 km 2) of China's cultivated land have been polluted, with contaminated water being used ...
China typically releases a winter air quality plan every autumn, because coal heating and atmospheric conditions lead to dirtier air during the winter months. But the plan was not enforced in 2022 ...
Air pollution is among the biggest health problems of modern industrial society and is responsible for more than 10 percent of all deaths worldwide (nearly 4.5 million premature deaths in 2019), according to The Lancet. Air pollution can affect nearly every organ and system of the body, negatively affecting nature and humans alike.
The January 2024 version of the WHO database contains results of ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 5,390 towns and cities in 63 countries. Air quality in the database is represented by the annual mean concentration of particulate matter ( PM10 and PM2.5, i.e. particles smaller than 10 or 2.5 micrometers, respectively).
The 2013 Eastern China smog was a severe air pollution episode that affected East China, including all or parts of the municipalities of Shanghai and Tianjin, and the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, and Zhejiang, during December 2013.
An air quality index (AQI) is an indicator developed by government agencies [1] ... is responsible for measuring the level of air pollution in China. As of January 1 ...
When developing and updating the China Pollution Map Database, the IPE pays special attention to the annually published, government authored, List of Key State Monitored Enterprises, [1] which according to set selection principles and methods, identifies those companies that occupy 65% of China's industrial discharge volume, in traditionally ...
The World Bank estimates that 16 of the world's most-polluted cities are located in China. [40] Coastal pollution is widespread, leading to declines in habitat quality and increasing harmful algal blooms. [41] The largest algal bloom recorded in history occurred in China around the southern Yellow Sea in 2008, and was easily observed from space ...