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A strong argument for why the IOC should stick it to Beijing.
Will the country evolve towards a “greener” developmental model? “Green China” is not only about environmental investments and regulations. A greener China would also recognize that there is a link between corruption and pollution...
Stranded ships, plagues of rats, pollution: Is China's mighty Yangtze river on the brink of environmental disaster ?
Essentially a 4 pegged stool, the above are what I call the pillars of stability. If one of the pillars is lost for a single person or a family member, then the risk of unrest increases.
Excellent foresight news report covering the not-so-spectacular olympic games of 2008 from the journalistic time-machine of davesgonechina.
A flash animation to go back to the roots of the air pollution problem which is causing so much troubles to Beijing government these days...
Tim Johnson thinks somebody might be doing a bit of fuzzy math with China stats.
"I see the World Bank says 20 of the world's 30 most polluted cities are in China. And here's a story that says 16 of the world's 20 most polluted cities are Chinese. So which is it? And what are the cities?"
Dark as soy sauce, perfumed with a chemical stench, the liquid waste from two paper mills overwhelmed the tiny village of Sugai. Villagers tried to construct a makeshift dike, but the toxic water swept it away. Fifty-seven homes sank into a black, polluted lake.
A very beautiful and instructive flash animation about China's Forests and deforestation.
The water in China is unfit for drinking, the Government admitted yesterday, as it announced plans to spend 70 billion over five years on sewage and water treatment facilities.
ESWN takes a critical look at why the headline "750,000 a year killed by Chinese pollution" is not a fair or informed one. His analysis raises the question of whether or not that number is actually not too bad.
Live in China? Long-term? Wonder what that does to your lungs? Take a look at the insides of this PC and begin to guess.
Coal is big, and getting bigger. As oil and natural gas prices soar, the world is relying ever more on the cheap, black-burning mainstay of the Industrial Revolution.
And nowhere is coal bigger than in China.
you can see the sun fruitlessly trying to penetrate the thick grey gauze shrouding the city. You can see forever, but it is smog, not the heavens, up there.
Chronicles past summers, presenting graphic and picture evidence of what we should expect in August 2008 (something is supposed to happen then...)
For 20 million years, the white-fin dolphin, or baiji, swam China's longest river, the Yangtze. But a few years of breakneck development, overfishing and a massive increase in shipping have reduced sightings of this shy, graceful creature to zero.
