A dozen officials have been sent to prison for their roles in a 2008 mining waste accident that killed 277 people, Chinese authorities said Saturday (more…)
Toxic Soil in China – The Invisible Pollutant
South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has one of the country’s biggest reserves of arsenic and lead, which are important resources for industry. Due to contamination by unrestricted discharges of mine tailings into the environment and other stresses, it has also been shown to contain soil polluted by a range of poisonous substances.
Soil pollution has [...]
Three die in central China as tailings dam bursts
CHANGSHA — Three people were confirmed dead and four others were injured when a tailings dam burst and set off a landslide that destroyed their home in central China’s Hunan Province shortly after midnight, the local safety administration said.
The reservoir of manganese ore waste burst at 12:45 a.m. Thursday and toppled a house in Huayuan [...]