• Ningxia sand lake: from bad V to Ⅲ type of ecological butterfly transformation

    Ningxia sand lake: from bad V to Ⅲ type of ecological butterfly transformation

    Since the beginning of this century, Ningxia Sand Lake scenic area due to the growth of tourists and other reasons, water pollution is becoming more and more serious, water quality once reached the inferior V. In 2016, the water quality of the sand lake was named by the Central Environmental Protection Inspection Group, ordered to…

  • The Green Miracle of Sehanda Dam

    The Green Miracle of Sehanda Dam

    Once a desert sandland with “yellow sand covering the sky and no trees for birds to live in”, the desert sandland has been transformed into a million-acre sea of artificial forests through the arduous efforts of several generations of people in Sehamba and continuous afforestation. The forest coverage rate has increased dramatically and the ecological…

  • Cailing Town, Duchang, Jiujiang, China: A New Chapter in Water Environment Management

    Cailing Town, Duchang, Jiujiang, China: A New Chapter in Water Environment Management

    The water quality purification plant, pipeline network and ancillary facilities project in Cailing Town of Jiangxi Jiujiang Duchang Three Gorges Water Environment Comprehensive Treatment PPP Project led by Yangtze River Environmental Protection Group, a subsidiary of Three Gorges Group, has entered into the official operation period. During the trial operation of the project, all the…

  • 全球塑料垃圾难题:行动迫在眉睫

    全球塑料垃圾难题:行动迫在眉睫

    According to the United Nations Environment Program, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks filled with plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans, rivers and lakes every day. Some 400 million tons of plastic waste are generated each year, and less than 10 percent of the 7 billion tons of plastic waste already generated globally is…

  • Mexico’s Petroleos Mexicanos Methane Leak: An Environmental Alert

    Mexico’s Petroleos Mexicanos Methane Leak: An Environmental Alert

    A massive methane leak at Petróleos Mexicanos (PNM) caused by a malfunction at the company’s facilities has resulted in potent greenhouse gas emissions that are impacting the environment, underscoring the environmental challenges of the oil industry and the pressure on the company to resolve the malfunction and minimize the emissions as soon as possible. The…

  • Exceeding Organic Fluoride Standards in Japanese Water: Environmental Crisis and Responsibility

    Exceeding Organic Fluoride Standards in Japanese Water: Environmental Crisis and Responsibility

    October 2024 – Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, has a serious problem with excessive concentrations of organofluorides in its water sources. Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), which are harmful to humans, were detected in the well water of 54 out of 170 wells that were additionally investigated by the local government in…

  • Protecting Birds, Building a Green Future Together

    Protecting Birds, Building a Green Future Together

    On September 25, 2024, the Spring City Environmental Protection Walk of the Century was launched in Jinan, China. Birds under national second-grade protection were released at the event and returned to nature after being rescued due to illness or injury. Protecting birds is to protect the ecological balance, we should start from the small things…

  • Wetland Crisis on the U.S. Pacific Coast

    Wetland Crisis on the U.S. Pacific Coast

    In September 2024, a team of researchers published a study in the journal Biological Conservation showing that coastal salt marshes along the U.S. Pacific Coast have experienced significant losses, averaging more than 60%. In contrast, other coastal regions of the U.S. have experienced less loss of coastal salt marsh (less than 10% on average), and…

  • South Asia’s Ocean Plastic Woes: World Bank Report Offers Hope

    South Asia’s Ocean Plastic Woes: World Bank Report Offers Hope

    The World Bank has released its “South Asia Marine Plastic Pollution Report 2024.” Six of the eight countries in the South Asia region share transboundary river systems, which facilitate the transboundary transportation of pollutants such as solid waste (including plastics), industrial wastewater, domestic wastewater, and microplastics. The report aims to support the development of evidence-based…

  • Canada’s Plastic Waste Challenge

    Canada’s Plastic Waste Challenge

    Marine biologists in Canada, which produces one of the largest amounts of plastic waste per capita in the world, have taken it upon themselves to organize trips to a number of marine protected areas to clean up plastic trash. OECD data shows that over the past 20 years, annual global production of plastics has more…