Cycling on Crazy Chinese Roads – China Environment

Adam Minter posts photographic evidence including bar codes of e-waste being dumped in Guiyu, as well as the unfruitful conversations he had with representatives of the companies involved in his efforts to track the journey of these products from factory to dump.

Do indoor air purifiers actually work to decrease air pollution in China? Yes, they definitely do -- I've done my own real-world testing a few times, and I've written a few articles about it. The good news is the good brands filter 95-99% of PM2.5 in small, closed rooms.

They're cute, cuddly, and the symbol of the WWF, but why spend time and effort on these dirty, grumpy, overgrown marmots? They're too lazy to change their diet and can barely get off their collective arses to bread. Let them die out! The Christian Science Monitor examines a newly published study of eight male pandas in China as they prepare to mate.

Mapmakers and geologists divide the Yangtze River, the third largest in the world, into three sections: China's mighty "Mother River" begins in the Tibetan plateau, slowly gathering strength as it meanders through a relatively barren expanse of rock and ice; then rather suddenly, the river begins to run rapidly as it plunges down a steep gradient, meanwhile swerving around hairpin turns and throug