Glen Mills just forwarded this one:
Olympic nightmare: A red tide in the Yellow Sea
BEIJING: With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic competition.
www.iht.com/.../china.php
Then there was this:
Olympics clean-up Chinese style: Inside Beijings shocking death camp for cats
Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being abandoned by their owners and sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounts an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the Olympic Games.
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Olympics-clean-Chinese-style-Inside-Beijings-shocking-death-camp-cats.html
This was early on, but it sounds like they will have as much as half the amount of cars on the road by banning all government workers from driving:
Olympians air a gripe about Beijing
March 12, 2008
Matt Reed was 1,500 meters into the last segment of the triathlon when he found himself gasping for oxygen. His legs were still pounding away at the pavement, his body pumped up after cruising through the swimming and cycling contests, but his lungs were shutting down.
The 32-year-old triathlete from Boulder, Colo., blames air pollution for triggering his asthma attack during the September track meet.
articles.latimes.com/.../fg-olyair12
Is there some parade of cats at opening ceremonies?
:rofl:
THAT would be a sight to see. Ours is a classic marriage of a dog person (me) and a cat person (my wife). Although I have come to appreciate their quirkiness and admire their unabashed self-centeredness, any cat worth its salt wouldn't bother to hide its disdain for such herd-like behavior.
Although China's pollution problems are pretty staggering, and for the most part worse than we face in the US, we do have our own problems with red tides off the US coasts. Not to mention the occasional outbreak of Pfiesteria ("the cell from hell")...
Is there some parade of cats at opening ceremonies?
:rofl:
THAT would be a sight to see. Ours is a classic marriage of a dog person (me) and a cat person (my wife). Although I have come to appreciate their quirkiness and admire their unabashed self-centeredness, any cat worth its salt wouldn't bother to hide its disdain for such herd-like behavior.
Although China's pollution problems are pretty staggering, and for the most part worse than we face in the US, we do have our own problems with red tides off the US coasts. Not to mention the occasional outbreak of Pfiesteria ("the cell from hell")...
