China
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China’s smog is so bad, people didn’t notice a factory fire burning for three whole hours
If you can't distinguish between smoke from an hours-long factory fire and your normal, everyday smog, your country has a problem.
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China has plans for a victory garden in space
It's is very, very hard to get fresh, local veggies in space. But China has a solution.
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Lesson learned: Don’t build public transit on quicksand
Building a metro station under a busy road and on top of an underground quicksand pit turns out to be a bad idea.
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Climate change is stealing pandas’ food
Bamboo might seem hardy, but it does not deal well with temperature changes.
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Tsunami of ‘chemical deodorant’ foam floods Chinese village
What would you think if you saw a giant wall of doom-bubbles advancing on you down the river? PANIC.
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Beautiful street art turns footsteps into trees
As income levels in China increase, more people are driving cars, and China Environmental Protection Foundation hired DDB China to come up with a way to hammer into people’s heads that walking can be a better choice than driving. The result was beautiful — a public art campaign that had pedestrians “painting” leaves onto a […]
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The creepiest earthworm you have ever seen is 19 inches long
Forestry worker Li Zhiwei found this gigantic earthworm in his backyard and is keeping it as a pet. If you think that screenshot is vaguely disturbing, wait ’til you see this guy move:
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Chinese police save 3,600 endangered crocodiles from being eaten by humans
In southern China, police intercepted three foreigners trying to sneak over the border with precious cargo — more than 3,600 crocodiles. By the time police arrested the smugglers, 42 of the Siamese crocs (an endangered species) had died of dehydration and overheating. But if the police hadn’t intervened, the rest would have met an equally […]
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Newly discovered mushroom is actually a rubber vagina
Well here’s a story that sounds like an urban legend: Villagers in China unearthed a mysterious plant that they thought might be some type of mushroom. It’s described as “fleshy and meaty,” with “something that looks like lips” at one end, and on the other end there’s a hole with a shaft in between and […]