2012年，以什邡事件、启东事件和宁波PX项目争议为代表的环境公共事件，一般被理解为中国环境运动兴起的表现。
Agitated street protests must develop into social movements that actually effect real reform, not just knee-jerk reactions, says Ma Zhong, from Renmin University of China.
浊漳河上游的山西省潞安天脊煤化工厂苯胺泄漏，约8.7吨的泄漏量导致下游部分地区停止供水，居民抢购矿泉水。
China's Handan city has switched off the water supply in some areas after an upstream chemical plant leaked 8.7 tonnes of toxic aniline.
法新社摄影记者拍摄到香港一家厂房屋顶晾晒大批鱼翅，估计数量多达15000-20000个，密集的晾晒场面令人触目惊心。
AFP photographer finds as many as 20,000 shark fins drying on rooftop of an industrial building in Hong Kong.
我们一般都只顾着计算每天吃进去了多少营养物质和多少卡路里，现在一项新技术可以测算出你每天吃的东西消耗了多少碳足迹。
New project allows people to visualise the carbon footprint of their everyday food choices.
绿色和平组织的测试显示，出租车司机是PM2.5污染的严重受害者，其暴露值是普通人的3倍。
Taxi drivers are exposed to three times as much PM2.5 air pollutants to an ordinary person in China, according to Greenpeace.
我们精选了2012年中外对话十大热读佳作，与您重温那一个个牵动人心的环境故事。
We pick out the most popular and important stories published on chinadialogue from the past year, including environmental protests and a local revolt against an eco-toilet scheme.
从大规模的群体事件到国际间的贸易战，从页岩气的开发到化妆品的汞含量超标，中国环保经历了不平凡的一年。中外对话带您回顾这一年的大事件。
From mass protests to trade wars, shale-gas drilling to hazardous cosmetics, it’s been a topsy turvy 12 months for China’s environment. Here’s a quick refresher of the year that was.
“活熊取胆”行为违反中国《野生动物保护法》，动物福利立法迫在眉睫。
Existing animal protection law is not enough to stop the farming of bears for their bile, used in traditional Chinese medicine.
干旱，飓风和气候政治肥皂剧：2012年的美国环境问题不少，却未取得突破性的进展。
Droughts, hurricanes and vicious battles over climate politics: 2012 was a year of much ado but little progress on the environmental front.
2012年北京、上海、广州、西安四城市因PM2.5污染造成的早死人数预计将高达8570多人，因早死而致的经济损失达68亿人民币。在东亚地区，室外空气污染已成为排名第4的健康风险因素。
Deaths associated with fine particulates in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Xian hit 8,570 this year according to a new report from Greenpeace.
曾在中国环保部工作的环境经济学家胡涛认为，应将企业在海外的投资项目纳入国内环境法的适用范围。
Domestic environmental laws should be extended to overseas operations, says former government environment economist Hu Tao
中国、中东及非洲的气候变化可能导致蝗灾频发，农作物歉收
Climatic changes in China, the Middle East and Africa could see more severe outbreaks of locusts devastating food crops
气候变化所引起的担忧还不足以推动除了政治对话之外的实质性行动。
Fear of the distant horrors of climate change isn't enough to drive anything more than just political talk and hand-wringing
专家称美国应对从中国进口的产品加强监管，狗粮及药物仍是重点领域。
America needs tougher regulation of products it imports from China, say experts, with dog food and pharmaceuticals remaining areas of concern
印度农业遭遇危机，农民自杀事件接连发生，兰詹娜•帕迪的新作《遗孀》讲述了这一背景下妇女的艰难处境。
Written against the backdrop of continuing suicides among Indian farmers, a new book describes the impact of the country’s agricultural crisis on women
短评 in brief
如果人类不能消除对生态和地球系统的无知，世界将会怎样？卡斯帕•亨德森认为，弗雷德•古特尔的《物种的命运》一书对最坏的情形进行了令人惊心的概述。
The Fate of the Species by Fred Guterl is a bracing overview of the worst that can happen if humans do not overcome their ecological and Earth-systems illiteracy, writes Caspar Henderson.
