China Watch
by Ling Li on June 26, 2007 A large outbreak of blue-green algae last month on eastern China’s Lake Tai—the country’s third largest freshwater lake—has contaminated the main drinking water source of Wuxi, cutting the tap water supply for the city’s 2 million residents for almost three days.
by Wang Jiaquan on June 21, 2007 As greenhouse gas emissions erupt with the rising consumption of fossil fuels, the world’s highest plateau keeps sending alerts to the planet.
by Jianqiang Liu on June 19, 2007 China’s worsening environmental crisis is catalyzing a growing environmental movement in which the public is resisting special interest groups and opposing the government’s environmentally “unfriendly” behaviors.
by Lila Buckley on June 14, 2007 As the countdown to the 2008 Olympics intensifies, China is struggling to work out its modern identity in almost every sphere of life.
by Li Zhang on June 12, 2007 For the first time ever, scientists recently captured clear footage of a wild Indo-Chinese tiger in a nature reserve in China’s southeastern Yunnan Province.
by Ling Li on June 7, 2007 China unveiled its first national plan on climate change this Monday, after two years of preparation by the State Council, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), and 17 other departments.
by Ryan Hodum on June 5, 2007 Traveling across China, it’s hard not to notice a unique and environmentally benign technology that has been gracefully integrated into urban buildings and other structures
by Qiang Wang et al. on May 31, 2007 A construction crane several tens of meters high is operating furiously at a building site in a large valley of the Dadu River, one of the major tributaries of the Yangtze River.
by Zuo Xuan on May 29, 2007 Last year, China’s southwestern city of Chongqing, located along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, suffered from its worst drought in half a century.
by Guiyang Zhuang on May 24, 2007 China must shift to a low-carbon economy. This is not just because of the high pressure from the international community to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but also because of the rising domestic exploitation of the nation's natural resources.
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