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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 ...
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 ...
China has vast mineral reserves, [3] a significant earthquake risk in its western regions and rare isolated active volcanoes throughout the country. [4] Many geological concepts were discovered very early in China's history. However, it was not until the adoption of European natural science in the late 19th century that geology became a science ...
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.
China's pollution control measures include pollutant and carbon emissions trading systems. [15]: 76–80 Pollutant trading is a regional cap-and-trade program for the trading of emissions permits for pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides in industrial waste air, and ammonia nitrogen and chemical oxygen demand in wastewater.
Due to overfishing, pollution, global temperature increase, and change in pH to the world's oceans, the South China Sea is suffering from a lack in biodiversity among marine life. [30] Historically, China was the world's largest capture fisheries and aquaculture producer, making the fish market a significant part of the Chinese economy. [ 39 ]
China is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG) and many major Chinese cities had severe air pollution through the 2010s, [69] with the situation improving in the 2020s. [70] The scheme is run by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment , [ 67 ] which eventually plans to limit emissions from six of China's top carbon dioxide emitting ...
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