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Bloggers Put China’s Pollution on the Map

A Chinese blogger said his effort to produce a big online China pollution map is attracting public enthusiasm, although the sensitive nature of the issue makes its fate uncertain. ...full story at China Journal

from China Journal on Tue, Nov 03 2009

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