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Our top 10 list includes articles on environmental protests, health concerns about incinerators and a local revolt against an eco-toilet scheme. As well as our rundown on the most popular and important stories on chinadialogue<\/em> in 2012, we’ve also produced a review of the past year’s environmental news<\/a> in China.<\/p>\n

1. Seeing China’s pollution from space<\/a>
\nUS scientists have used satellite data to assess a decade’s worth of PM 2.5 levels. The results are startling.
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2. China’s food scares show the system is bust<\/a>
\nOur lives – and the safety of our food – are determined by the structures we live in, wrote Tang Hao. Without systemic reform, there’s no point increasing enforcement powers.<\/div>\n
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3. World’s biggest eco-toilet project ends in failure<\/a><\/div>\n
The story of how dry toilets in a Chinese eco community were quietly replaced after three years of bad smells, health problems and maggots.
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4. Why China is the world’s most important story<\/a><\/div>\n
Guardian environment reporter Jonathan Watts has spent nine years in China covering everything from pollution protests to species extinction. About to leave for pastures new, he shared some parting thoughts.
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5. The dirty truth about China’s incinerators<\/a><\/div>\n
China’s “clean” trash-burning plants have a dark underside. Stuffed with coal, many operate like fossil-fired power stations, only more laxly governed. See also: German bank targeted over Beijing waste plant<\/a>.<\/div>\n
\n6. Tibetans fight tourism on holy lakes<\/a><\/div>\n
Public outrage has halted a damaging cruise boat project on one of Tibet’s sacred lakes, but unrestrained tourism remains a threat.<\/div>\n
\n7. An insight into the green vocabulary of the Chinese communist party<\/a><\/div>\n
As China’s new leaders prepared to take office, chinadialogue<\/em> looked back at how the Communist Party’s environmental vocabulary has changed over the decades.<\/div>\n
\n8. Decline of bees forces China’s apple farmers to pollinate by hand<\/a><\/div>\n
The decline of wild bees in China threatens more than just its apple and pear harvests, suggest pollination experts.<\/div>\n
\n9. Officials struggling to respond to China’s year of environment protests<\/a><\/div>\n
Within a few months of 2012, China saw three mass environmental protests. Could this prompt the government to improve public access to information and rule of law? See also: Shifang protests: a crisis of local rule, says Tang Hao<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And finally… one of the more unusual articles that proved very popular with readers…<\/p><\/div>\n

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10. How long can the caterpillar fungus craze last?<\/a>
\nSky-high prices have prompted a rush to collect caterpillar fungus in China, but quality discoveries are becoming rare. An ecological crisis is inevitable.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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