Blog Tag - Greenpeace

Waimai Deliveries Are Filling Beijing Landfills With Plastic – A New Rule May Change That
As its landfills pile up at an outrageous pace, Beijing appears to be doing all it can to turn over a new (biodegradable) leaf on plastics and waste...
Beijing Not Even In Top 100 Most Polluted Cities
According to a report released by Greenpeace today, Beijing now ranks 122 in the list of the world's most polluted cities. The report was compiled...
Beicology: Airpocalypse, Done? Not So Fast, Say Experts
After weeks of mostly clear blue skies, haze returned to Beijing this Monday, accompanied by AQI levels reaching over 150 by late morning. This is by...
Beijing Ranks 11th in Greenpeace Quarterly Provincial Air Pollution Data, Pollution Down 27 Percent Compared to Last Year
In what we can only really consider to be good news, Beijing's PM2.5 pollution levels saw a 27 percent decrease from January to March when compared...
China's Air Quality Improving, Greenpeace Says
It's not just Beijing air quality that's getting better. Apparently the spate of air pollution reduction is spreading throughout China, as Greenpeace...
Beijing's Neighboring Hebei Province Snags 7 of Top 10 Slots in China's Worst Air List
  The good news: Beijing is not one of the Top 10 worst cities for air in China. The bad news: Neighboring Hebei Province contains 7 of the worst 10...
Breathe It and Weep: Greenpeace Finds Out What, Exactly, is Going into Our Lungs
We all know that Beijing's noxious air is filled with nasty carcinogens that are bad for you, but Greenpeace has revealed just how bad the air we...
Greenpeace Gives Solar Energy a Boost in Shunyi
This month has been a sunny one for Greenpeace China. They have successfully installed Beijing's largest rooftop solar PV project, one that, at full...
Toxic Avenger: Li Yifang, Greenpeace Activist, Detoxing China
Greenpeace is perhaps the best known environmental NGO. It does sterling work throughout the world in measuring and combating environmental...
It’s Not What You Eat But Where You Buy It
The end of the year means all the requisite top ten lists, but Greenpeace decided to do one a bit out of the ordinary. Earlier this week they...