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Due to pollution, birth defects rise in China

SHANXI PROVINCE, CHINA - November 16: Workers take their lunch break outside a steel factory on November 16, 2007 in Zhongyang, Shanxi province, China. China's rate of birth defects had risen from 104.9 per 10,000 births in 2001, to 145.5 in 2006, China's National Population and Family Planning Commission said in a report on its web site (www.chinapop.gov.cn). China's coal-rich northern province of Shanxi, a centre of noxious emissions from large-scale coke and chemical industries, had the highest rate of birth defects, Xinhua news agency said. (Photo by Lucas Schifres/Getty Images)

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SHANXI PROVINCE, CHINA - November 16: Workers take their lunch break outside a steel factory on November 16, 2007 in Zhongyang, Shanxi province, China. China's rate of birth defects had risen from 104.9 per 10,000 births in 2001, to 145.5 in 2006, China's National Population and Family Planning Commission said in a report on its web site (www.chinapop.gov.cn). China's coal-rich northern province of Shanxi, a centre of noxious emissions from large-scale coke and chemical industries, had the highest rate of birth defects, Xinhua news agency said. (Photo by Lucas Schifres/Getty Images)