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China's green progress leaves US red-faced

2011-04-13T10:41:00.001+08:00

China's green progress leaves US red-faced Guardian.co.ukChina pushes ahead with an emissions trading scheme, while American initiatives remain sunk in Congressional quicksand

Importing Coal, China Burns It as Others Stop

2010-11-22T14:22:00.000+08:00

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Even as developed countries close or limit the construction of coal-fired power plants out of concern over pollution and climate-warming emissions, coal has found a rapidly expanding market elsewhere: Asia, particularly China. At ports in Canada, Australia, Indonesia, Colombia and South Africa, ships are lining up to load coal for furnaces in

Amid Trade Tensions, U.S. Creates More Clean Tech Research Partnerships With China

2010-09-15T15:01:00.000+08:00

By DARIUS DIXON of ClimateWire The number of clean energy partnerships between the United States and China reached a new peak when the U.S. Energy Department announced two new consortia aimed at tackling clean vehicles and 'clean' coal technology earlier this month. Along with a substantial funding pool totaling $100 million, split evenly among the two countries, the new

2010-05-12T14:07:00.001+08:00

China environmentalist alleges brutal jail treatment By Robert Saiget (AFP) – 19 hours ago BEIJING — A top Chinese environmentalist said Tuesday he was beaten and suffered brutal treatment while serving a three-year jail term imposed after he spoke out about rampant pollution in a major lake.Wu Lihong also told AFP that authorities tried to force him to confess to bogus extortion charges. He

2010-04-26T14:06:00.001+08:00

All the tees in China: Golf boom threatens rainforest With its 1,000-year-old trees, Hainan was a rare conservation success.

2010-04-01T15:04:00.001+08:00

March 31, 2010, 7:37 PM HKT Via WSJ.COM An Environmentalist's View on China's Drought As China's worst drought in a century wreaks havoc across southwestern China, one of Beijing's leading environmentalists arrived in Hong Kong to push for stronger rules forcing listed

2010-03-31T14:18:00.001+08:00

Should the U.S. compete or work with China on clean energy?Amid recent studies suggesting the United States is losing the clean energy edge to China, the U.S. Department of Energy is helping fund a joint research center.On Monday, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $37.5 million in U.S. funding over the next five years for the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center, to be located at existing

2010-02-03T14:10:00.001+08:00

The international expansion of Chinese dam builders Select ratingPoorOkayGoodGreatAwesome Jacqui Dixon CSR Adia Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Historically, Western countries have provided the technology for the bulk of China's hydropower dams. The first turbines to be installed on a river in China was under the Qing Dynasty in 1909, by German company Siemens.

2010-01-27T14:13:00.001+08:00

January 27, 2010 On New Environmental Scoreboard, U.S. and China Plummet While Iceland Leads By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL via Nytimes.com A new ranking of the world's nations by environmental performance puts some of the globe's largest economies far down the list, with the United States sinking to 61st and China to 121st. In the previous version of the Environmental Performance Index,

2009-12-23T13:16:00.001+08:00

Major environmental events in 2009 in China Source: Global Times [16:44 December 22 2009]Comments The environment was a hot topic in China in 2009. Here is a roundup of major events that happened. 1. Corruption in water pollution treatment project Seven provinces embezzled 403 million yuan ($59 million) from the funds for water pollution treatment project involving 13 provinces,

2009-12-16T14:01:00.001+08:00

It had to go somewhere: (some) Chinese E-waste flowing into North Korea. posted by Adam on December 16, 2009 @ 10:04 am As I've argued elsewhere on this blog, climate change – despite its popularity as an environmental cause in the developed world – really doesn't have much of a constituency in China. And among the most important reasons for that lack of popular interest is the persistence

2009-12-09T15:12:00.001+08:00

Why the Best Legacy of Copenhagen Could Be a Stronger China by Alex Pasternack, New York, NY on 12. 8.09 Via Treehugger.com The slight prospects for a deal at Copenhagen are already being pinned largely on the US and China. But with Obama's hands tied behind his back partly by the US Congress, with China already demonstrating leadership on renewable energy and energy efficiency efforts, and

2009-11-30T13:43:00.001+08:00

Lessons from China's Three Gorges Dam Peter Bosshard Via Japanfocus.org The world's largest hydropower project has reached its final dimensions. Peter Bosshard draws conclusions from the Three Gorges experience. Fifteen years after construction started, the water level of the Three Gorges reservoir is scheduled to reach its final height of 175 meters this fall. After 27 million cubic meters of

2009-11-26T15:14:00.001+08:00

China Beachhead: More Government Support for Chinese Clean-Energy Exports By Keith Johnson Via Wsj.com From China today, another reminder of the role governments are playing in the global green-energy push. China's Export-Import Bank signed a $2.9 billion deal to boost exports of China Energy Conservation Investment

2009-11-20T17:02:00.001+08:00

November 19, 2009, 2:06 PM ET Via Wsj Blog How Much of China's Emissions Mess Is Really Ours? There's plenty of interesting stuff in the latest paper in Nature Geosciences about the growth in global greenhouse-gas emissions—that the growth is overwhelmingly concentrated in

2009-11-18T14:54:00.001+08:00

Going Green in China, Case by Case By MICHAEL FORSYTHE Via Nytimes.com ORDOS REGION, CHINA — This region of Inner Mongolia, home to one of the biggest deserts in China, is being transformed into the site of a pine forest that will stretch across its low hills as far as the eye can see. The local government's tree-planting program is part of a plan to "assume our green

2009-11-11T14:08:00.001+08:00

China Wants to Take "a Leadership Role" On Climate: An Interview with WWF's Yang Fuqiang, Part 2 by Alex Pasternack, New York, NY on 11. 9.09 When it comes to China's efforts to curtail greenhouse gases, Dr. Yang Fuqiang, director of global climate solutions at the World Wildlife Fund, has an optimal vantage point. He began his career as a researcher at the National Development and Reform

2009-11-05T13:56:00.001+08:00

Hummer Is a 'Garbage Brand' China's top climate-change negotiator makes a case that his country is gearing up for the December summit in Copenhagen. By Melinda Liu | Newsweek Web Exclusive Nov 3, 2009 In September at the United Nations, Chinese President Hu

2009-10-29T13:32:00.001+08:00

Ma Jun: the call of rivers www.chinaview.cn 2009-10-28 18:14:28 By Gong Yidong BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- When Ma Jun stood on the banks of the mighty and yet polluted Yangtze River in 1994, he had vague idea that one day he would devote himself to a Mission Impossible: saving China's dying rivers.

2009-10-27T14:03:00.001+08:00

George Monbiot on China and climate change October 26, 2009 Via GreenPeace Environmental activist and journalist, George Monbiot, talks to Greenpeace China about China and climate change. Beijing, China — China would be a lot more proactive on climate change if the West stepped up and took their share of the

2009-10-27T13:52:00.001+08:00

China's Water Needs Create Opportunities The Qinghe Wastewater Plant in Beijing. China's water shortage, especially in the northern part of the country, is driving a need for wastewater recycling. By HILLARY BRENHOUSE Via Nytimes.com MONTREAL — The staggering economic growth in China has come at a heavy cost, paid in severe contamination of the country's air, soil and

2009-10-26T16:41:00.001+08:00

Tower of Power By Austin Ramzy Monday, Nov. 02, 2009 Big fanA worker prepares for the installation of giant rotor blades atop a wind-turbine tower in China's Gansu province Ariana Lindquist / The New York Times / Redux In China, one doesn't have to look far to see the

Has China Really Gotten Serious About Climate Change?

2009-09-25T16:01:00.000+08:00

A thick smog settles over Beijing. Paula Bronstein / Getty Via Time.com By Bill Powell Thursday, Sep. 24, 2009 To get a sense of how far the Chinese leadership has come on the issue of climate change in a relatively short period, consider a conference held two years

E-Waste: There’s an App for That

2009-09-24T15:41:00.000+08:00

The iPhone is coming to China -- and so is a lot of technological trash. BY ADAM MINTER | SEPTEMBER 23, 2009 Before year's end, Apple and China Unicom will finally launch the iPhone in China, leaving hundreds of thousands of affluent Chinese cell-phone users with an increasingly pressing question: What should

Three river delta areas sinking, report claims

2009-09-24T14:24:00.001+08:00

By Wang Qian (China Daily) Updated: 2009-09-23 07:40 Three river deltas in China are sinking due to global warming and excessive extraction of underground water, leaving millions of people with an increasing risk of floods, a recent scientific report showed. The Pearl, Yangtze and Yellow river deltas in China are among the 33 major deltas studied, with 24 of them found to be sinking,

China Emerges as the Yin and the Yang of the Global Warming Problem

2009-09-22T13:59:00.000+08:00

By LISA FRIEDMAN of ClimateWire The first of an occasional series on China's climate issues. BEIJING -- Staring up at the dazzling, $32 million screen of light-emitting diodes suspended above one of this city's luxury shopping malls, it's hard to see China as a struggling "developing" country. Sitting on a stone ledge with 34-year-old Wai Shen Ching hundreds of miles away in the

Legal Struggles for a Cleaner Environment

2009-09-21T14:45:00.000+08:00

An environmental group's success in court against a local government agency may lay the groundwork for legal progress. By staff reporters Qin Xudong and Luo Jieqi (Caijing Magazine) A court in southern China needed only 34 days to settle a 15-year-old environmental predicament at a nature reserve. But much more time may be needed to overcome obstacles to environmental law in China that surfaced

China Racing Ahead of U.S. in Drive to Go Solar

2009-08-25T15:29:00.000+08:00

Ryan Pyle for The New York Times Suntech, China’s biggest solar panel maker, has reduced the price of panels sold in America to build market share. By KEITH BRADSHER WUXI, China — President Obama wants to make the United States “the world’s leading exporter of renewable energy,” but in his seven months in office, it is China that has stepped on the gas in an effort to become the dominant

The Great Paradox of China: Green Energy and Black Skies

2009-08-19T13:29:00.000+08:00

Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:05pm EDT By Yale Environment 360 - Yale Environment 360 By Christina LarsonThis month, on the first anniversary of the opening of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, Beijing's skies were a hazy gray. Walking down the street, one was left with a tickle in the throat and burning eyes. A recent study published in the Journal of Environmental Science and Technology,

China study urges greenhouse gas caps, peak in 2030

2009-08-18T14:00:00.000+08:00

Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:08am EDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China should set firm targets to limit greenhouse gas emissions so they peak around 2030, a study by some of the nation's top climate change policy advisers has proposed ahead of contentious talks on a new global warming pact. The call for "quantified targets" to cap greenhouse gas pollution marks a high-level public departure from China's

China’s green leap forward

2009-08-12T14:06:00.000+08:00

China Sees Progress on Climate Accord, but Resists an Emissions Ceiling

2009-08-06T15:16:00.001+08:00

NYTIMES.COM Published: August 5, 2009By MICHAEL WINES BEIJING — China’s envoy to global negotiations on climate change expressed optimism on Wednesday that a new agreement to reduce greenhouse gases would be reached this year, and he said that his nation’s efforts to curb carbon pollution already had produced results that he called “second to none.” But the envoy, Yu Qingtai, also

China Builds High Wall to Guard Energy Industry

2009-07-15T09:29:00.000+08:00

Ariana Lindquist for The New York Times The Daliang Wind Station located outside of Anxi in Gansu Province. China is now building six wind farms with a capacity of 10,000 to 20,000 megawatts apiece. More Photos > By KEITH BRADSHER BEIJING — When the United States’ top energy and commerce officials arrive in China on Tuesday, they will land in the middle of a building storm

How Confucianism could curb global warming

2009-06-28T14:37:00.001+08:00

China openly debates the role of Eastern thought in sustainability. By James Miller from the June 26, 2009 Via CSMonitor.com Kingston, Ontario - Now here's a curveball to secular Western policy experts: China's intellectuals are openly debating the role of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism in promoting the Communist Party's vision of a harmonious society and ecologically sustainable

Yellow River dams verge on collapse

2009-06-20T13:56:00.000+08:00

By Tan Yingzi (China Daily) Updated: 2009-06-19 10:34 Several dams on branches of the Yellow River in Gansu province are near collapse only one or two years after their construction. Improper construction procedures, disqualified workers, embezzlement of construction funds and mismanagement of local water resource departments are threatening the safety of the dams, according to China Youth

China suspends 'illegal' hydropower projects for environmental reasons

2009-06-15T14:18:00.000+08:00

Dam construction was started without necessary ecological assessments, says ministry of environmental protection

China and the environment: Red, green - and black

2009-06-11T16:08:00.000+08:00

The Guardian, Thursday 11 June 2009 Article history Visiting China a couple of years ago, the American journalist Thomas Friedman conceded that, when it came to climate change, his hosts had a point. Yes, the west had grown rich using dirty old coal and oil, and the Chinese had the right to do the same. "Take your time!" he told a

China Outpaces U.S. in Cleaner Coal-Fired Plants

2009-05-12T13:59:00.000+08:00

Doug Kanter for The New York Times A poster announces a power plant to be built in Tianjin, China. By KEITH BRADSHER Via NYtimes.com TIANJIN, China — China’s frenetic construction of coal-fired power plants has raised worries around the world about the effect on climate change. China now uses more coal than the United States, Europe and Japan combined, making it the world’s

'Green' lightbulbs poison workers

2009-05-06T13:32:00.000+08:00

Hundreds of factory staff are being made ill by mercury used in bulbs destined for the West Two Chinese businessmen walk into an international airport smoking room crowded with Western men puffing on cigars. The two Chinese are about to light up when one

China aims to regrow its 'empty forests'

2009-03-11T13:52:00.002+08:00

Jonathan Watts and Chen Shi guardian.co.uk Thursday 12 March 2009 As China attempts to reverse deforestation, it has set up its first national park in Heilongjiang province, and hopes tourists will fill the gap in the economy. Jonathan Watts visits a small factory that has turned a million trees into

Commentary: Time to create "greener wealth"

2009-03-10T14:19:00.000+08:00

www.chinaview.cn 2009-03-09 15:40:19 BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Britain's Sunday Times newspaper recently unveiled its first Green Rich List, featuring the world's top 100 tycoons or wealthy families who have made either serious investments in green technology and businesses or hefty financial commitments to environmental causes. Of the tycoons or wealthy families worth 200 million

Grazing in a nature reserve the only choice for herders in Xinjiang Uighur region of China

2009-03-06T14:13:00.001+08:00

World Bank Submitted by Tony Whitten on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 16:26. Just before Christmas my colleagues Judith Schleicher and Zeng Jun joined me on a visit to Lake Aibi in order to visit Kokobasto, a Kazakh nationality village situated north of the lake and within the Lake Aibi Nature Reserve in China's far north-western Xinjiang Uighur

China clings to clean-up amid woes

2009-03-06T13:47:00.000+08:00

drawControls(); addImpression("3098094_Related Video"); removeImpression(); addImpression("3098095_Related News"); removeImpression(); Thu Mar 5, 2009 By Emma Graham-Harrison BEIJING (Reuters) - Grappling with slowing growth and a rising tide of unemployment, China is still pushing for cleaner development and may

'Red card' polluters face credit crunch

2009-03-04T13:48:00.000+08:00

By Zhan Lisheng (China Daily) Updated: 2009-03-03 07:47Sixteen firms in Guangdong have been warned they may be denied further access to loans by local banks after receiving their second red card in the environmental protection credit ratings. Related readings: Pollution checks set to intensify Ministry to monitor pollution New ideas for an old village take rural roots Green

China plans 59 reservoirs to collect meltwater from its shrinking glaciers

2009-03-03T14:34:00.000+08:00

Major project for Xinjiang province amid concerns over future water supply Jonathan Watts in Beijing guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 March 2009 15.42 GMT

Beijing plans to build more efficient heating facilities to cut pollution

2009-03-03T14:33:00.000+08:00

www.chinaview.cn 2009-03-02 21:31:04 Print BEIJING, March. 2 (Xinhua) -- Chinese capital

China can build 'green economy' by 2030

2009-02-27T13:57:00.000+08:00

By Zhao Tingting (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2009-02-26 17:08China has the potential to build a "green economy" over the next decades, said a report on energy and the environment by McKinsey & Company, a global management consultancy firm. By 2030, China is expected to reduce its oil imports by up to 30 to 40 percent, its coal demand by 40 percent and greenhouse gas emission by 50 percent,

China's environment problems serious: minister

2009-02-25T15:05:00.000+08:00

AFP/File – View of a rubbish dump on the edge of a drought affected Poyang lake in Jiangxi province.SHANGHAI (AFP) – China's environmental problems remain serious

Who’s to Blame for China’s Pollution?

2009-02-25T14:54:00.000+08:00

Allgov.com Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Although China has recently surpassed the United States as the world’s biggest CO2 emitter in 2007, new research shows that about a third of all Chinese carbon emissions are caused by the manufacturing of goods for

Five Secrets to Success from China’s Top Green Heroes

2009-02-24T13:42:00.000+08:00

Written by Gavin Hudson via Ecoworldly.com Published on February 23rd, 2009 Posted in China Why do athletes train in

West blamed for rapid increase in China's CO2

2009-02-23T13:58:00.000+08:00

• Consumer exports behind 15% of emissions - study • Campaigners suggest new criteria for climate deal

Ma Jun: China's environmental patriot

2009-02-16T13:36:00.000+08:00

Ma Jun HONG KONG (AFP) — In China, where dissent is often brutally suppressed, publicly shaming powerful corporations for destroying the environment is fraught with risk. Ma Jun treads carefully.The author of "China's Water Crisis," a savage catalogue of the country's environmental collapse, Ma now takes the fight to polluters, shaming factories on a website run by his non-governmental

How America Can Turn China Green

2009-02-15T15:10:00.001+08:00

The U.S. ignored Beijing's request that it pay 1 percent of GDP to help China go green. It shouldn't. Fred GuterlNEWSWEEKFrom the magazine issue dated Feb 23, 2009Gao Guangsheng has an odd sense of timing. In late October, as the global financial system was collapsing around him, he put the United States, Europe and Japan on notice that they would be getting a bill for a hundred years of

Meet China's green crusader

2009-02-12T14:25:00.000+08:00

By Daniel K. Gardner Via IHT.com Wednesday, February 11, 2009 It's a challenge to defend China these days. There's violation of human rights. There's Sudan. There's Tibet. And now there's "currency manipulation." So looking at China's pollution mess, we in the West have been quick to denounce the bad guys in Beijing, blaming them for doing nothing to protect

Emerging economies told to go green or risk losing inward investment

2009-02-11T10:06:00.000+08:00

Sustainability is increasingly important to investors targeting Brazil, Russia, India and China, according to new report Tom Young, BusinessGreen, 09 Feb 2009 Large emerging economies such as

Clearing the air with China

2009-02-10T14:25:00.000+08:00

From the Los Angeles Times Editorial A summit and partnership on global warming could allow the U.S. and Beijing to get past the blame game. February 9, 2009 As President Obama pursues green infrastructure projects and other programs aimed at fighting climate change, he is eventually going to have to confront an unpleasant truth: None of it will matter

United on climate change: Obama's Chinese revolution

2009-02-09T11:00:00.000+08:00

US President wants the world's two biggest polluters to form a partnership in the battle against global warming. Geoffrey Lean reports Sunday, 8 February 2009 Independent.com EPA Metal fatigue Capital Iron and Steel on the outskirts of Beijing

Dam could have triggered Chinese earthquake, say scientists

2009-02-06T11:15:00.001+08:00

Weight of water may have affected disaster that killed 90,000 in Sichuan last year

Experts in U.S. and China See a Chance for Cooperation Against Climate Change

2009-02-06T11:13:00.000+08:00

By EDWARD WONG and ANDREW C. REVKIN Via Nytimes.com BEIJING — When Chinese officials and the Obama administration begin serious discussions over issues at the heart of relations between China and the United States, the usual suspects will no doubt emerge: trade, North Korea, human rights, Taiwan. But an increasing number of officials and scholars from both countries say climate

China punishes 15,000 enterprises over pollution in 2008

2009-01-15T11:32:00.000+08:00

www.chinaview.cn 2009-01-14 19:55:59

Future Prospects of China’s Policy on Climate Change

2009-01-13T10:49:00.001+08:00

China Brief Volume: 9 Issue: 1 January 12, 2009 09:30 AM Age: 7 hrs By: Jianjun Tu China’s economic boom has made the country a dominant producer of man made greenhouse gases (GHG). Since 1978, China’s fuel combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) emission has quadrupled, reaching 5,664 Mt in 2006 and 6,110 Mt in 2007 [1]. In comparison, the United

China delays part of massive water project

2009-01-13T10:48:00.000+08:00

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China's environmentalist ways

2009-01-12T09:06:00.000+08:00

Arrol Gellner Via Sfgate.com Saturday, January 10, 2009 China isn't really known for environmentalism. But the surprise is that it has had basic energy conservation practices in place for years. On my first visit to Shanghai in 1994, for example, I was surprised to see solar water heaters crowding the rooftops of practically every apartment block - something we don't see in the United

From east to west, a chain collapses

2009-01-09T16:09:00.000+08:00

Millions to lose their jobs as world's largest importer of waste hit by collapse in demand for packaging Tania Branigan in Dongxiaokou The Guardian, Friday 9

US recycling: 'I don't even think we have an industry'

2009-01-09T11:33:00.000+08:00

Collapse in demand for packaging in China hits US processors and exporters of recyclable material

On Chinese Water Project, A Struggle Over Sound Science

2009-01-08T23:54:00.001+08:00

Geologist Yong Yang has serious concerns about plans for a massive Yangtze River diversion project. When he went public with them, he found out how difficult it can be to challenge a government decision in China. The third in a series on Chinese environmentalists. by christina larson From Yale environment 360 In January 2007, an independent geologist named Yong Yang set out from his home in

Green revolution: still possible amid deep recession?

2009-01-07T15:12:00.000+08:00

Economic retreat could hamper green investment – but it could also spur a drive to move economies away from fossil-fuel dependencies.By Mark Rice-Oxley | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor from the January 7, 2009 edition In 2008, oil prices spiked then collapsed, climate-change talks stuttered, and nuclear power reemerged. Europe banned incandescent light bulbs, Britain made

Black Gold: China Joins the Coal-to-Liquids Club

2009-01-07T13:57:00.000+08:00

January 6, 2009, 9:14 am Posted by Keith JohnsonWSJ.com Oil prices may rise and fall, but the quest for energy security is eternal. It is in China, at least. China joined South Africa as the only countries with a working coal-to-liquids plant designed to turn abundant domestic coal into liquid transport fuel, Bloomberg notes. China’s Shenhua Group announced the plant went

China's green investment challenge

2009-01-07T13:43:00.000+08:00

China's environmental and renewable energy sectors are poised for another year of strong growth. However, green industries still face a daunting array of challenges, writes Ray Cheung from World Resources Institute, part of

A darker view of the Chinese economic 'miracle'

2009-01-06T14:25:00.000+08:00

By Alan Wheatley Reuters Monday, January 5, 2009 BEIJING: A self-serving government deliberately impoverishes the countryside, stifling business and driving illiteracy up while building skyscraper-adorned metropolises admired by the foreign capitalists it woos. Welcome to the China of Yasheng Huang, a U.S. academic whose trenchant analysis of 30 years of Chinese market

You just don't dance at a Communist Party congress

2009-01-06T14:22:00.000+08:00

Moving from safe, crowded Beijing to dangerous, bright Johannesburg leaves The Globe's correspondent with mixed reactions GEOFFREY YORK globeandmail.com

Tough goodbye to flimsy bin bags? Li Siqi

2008-12-24T13:41:00.001+08:00

ChinaDialogue.net December 23, 2008 Low-quality plastic shopping sacks have been banned in China. But Li Siqi asks what teeming urban areas can do about bigger, one-time-use rubbish ones. “These bags are produced mostly from discarded plastic, with the main ingredient being the same

In China’s Mining Region, Villagers Stand Up To Pollution

2008-12-05T14:16:00.000+08:00

After decades of living with fouled rivers and filthy air, residents of China’s Manganese Triangle are rising up and refusing to accept the intolerable conditions created by illegal mining activity. Their bold protests have shone light on the dark side of China’s economic boom. From Sichuan province, Chinese journalists Zhou Jigang and Zhu Chuhua report. by zhou jigang and zhu chuhua Via Yale

One-third of China's Yellow river 'unfit for drinking or agriculture'

2008-11-26T16:02:00.000+08:00

Factory waste and sewage from growing cities has severely polluted major waterway, according to Chinese research

Environmentalism with Chinese characteristics

2008-11-25T14:51:00.000+08:00

November 17, 2008 Greenpeace.org Greenpeace's Climate Rescue Station bathed in the light of a beautiful Polish evening. Enlarge Image China — What do you get when you combine a giant man-made planet, a vast open coal pit in Poland and four 20-somethings from China’s so-called post-80’s generation? A new Chinese youth

Obama’s Climate Challenge: What to do About China?

2008-11-25T14:49:00.000+08:00

Wsj.com November 24, 2008, 2:35 pm Posted by Keith Johnson As if it needed one, here’s another dilemma for the Obama administration: How to move aggressively to tackle climate change without getting China on board? With or without you (AP) During the campaign, Obama officials said it would be politically all but impossible for the U.S. to impose curbs on greenhouse-gas

China's journey to the dark ages

2008-11-15T14:49:00.000+08:00

Biggest cities becoming murky as smog clouds block up to 25 per cent of sun, UN study finds GEOFFREY YORK From Friday's Globe and Mail

Under a Sooty Exterior, A Green China Emerges

2008-11-13T14:07:00.000+08:00

You’ve heard the environmental horror stories: rivers running black, air unfit to breathe, two new coal-fired power plants a week. But thanks to a surging entrepreneurial spirit and new policies, China is fast becoming a leader in green innovation, from recycling to developing electric cars to harnessing the wind. by fred pearce Via Yale Environment 360 Call it the new China Syndrome. Putting

New chinese environmentalist documentary

2008-11-01T14:07:00.002+08:00

The Road Ahead: The First Green Long March. This new documentary, which screens at the Queens International Film Festival next Saturday, November 8th at 11am, is the hopeful story of a group of Chinese college students who mobilize to spark their own "Green" movement in rural China.The 2008 Olympics have passed but curiosity and coverage regarding China’s environmental future have just begun.

Chinese eco-detective treads lightly

2008-09-03T11:33:00.000+08:00

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China: Melting glacier leaves world's worst polluter with no room for doubt

2008-08-01T15:42:00.000+08:00

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Blowing in the wind: Pollution in Beijing

2008-07-29T14:02:00.000+08:00

Face-saving begins as Chinese official says it's fog not smog Last Updated: Monday, July 28, 2008 | 6:55 PM ET Comments1Recommend6 Ashley Terry CBC Sports A Chinese policeman stands guard on the Tiananmen Square on July 28, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Andrew Wong/Getty Images) When Canadian athletes follow flag-bearer Adam

Beijing shrouded in smog two weeks before China's Olympic Games

2008-07-28T13:51:00.002+08:00

China is considering even more stringent measures to control pollution as Beijing continues to be shrouded in smog less than two weeks before the Olympics. By Richard Spencer in Beijing Last Updated: 12:28AM BST 28 Jul 2008 The National Stadium know as the 'Bird's Nest' seen through thick smog Photo: AFP/GETTY The

Olympic Athletes Wearing Masks Could Cause China to Lose Face

2008-07-22T13:01:00.001+08:00

U.S. Committee Developed a Model in Secret; Jarrod Shoemaker Ponders the Geek Factor By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS and STEPHANIE KANG July 21, 2008; Page A1 U.S. triathlete Jarrod Shoemaker has a decision to make at the opening ceremony of the Olympics next month in Beijing: Should he strap on a mask? Chinese officials insist the notorious Beijing air will be cleaner by August, making such

The Green Long March

2008-07-09T12:45:00.000+08:00

Sseattletimes Posted by Daniel BeekmanSeven decades and four years ago, a ragged pack of Chinese idealists took flight. They trekked on foot through forests, deserts and valleys, preaching a practical, convincing backwoods gospel. Charasmatic young leaders, including Mao Zedong, emerged. Farmers listened. Or so the legend (Long March) goes: a weakened Red Army, an unhealthy land, a suffering

Beijing Turns Green Before the Olympics

2008-07-03T14:19:00.001+08:00

New America Media, News feature, Jun Wang, Posted: Jul 03, 2008 a2a_linkname=document.title;a2a_linkurl=location.href; Editor’s note: From shopping to driving to eating, Beijing residents are rearranging their lives to help save the environment just in time for the Olympics Games this August. NAM Chinese media monitor Jun Wang reports from Beijing. BEIJING – These days Ms. Yuqing

Pollution in China is a concern for Olympians

2008-07-03T13:43:00.001+08:00

July 2, 2008 - 8:04PM BY BRIAN GOMEZ THE GAZETTE Cars will come off the roads. Factories will close. Construction will stop. And persistent pollution might still hang over Beijing, enough to sour the Summer Olympics that begin next month. Less than 40 days until the Opening Ceremony, an estimated 600 U.S. Olympians are

Foreign governments help China map out plans for climate change

2008-07-01T13:12:00.000+08:00

BEIJING, June 30 (Xinhua) -- A joint initiative by foreign governments and international agencies was launched here on Monday to assist China's ecologically fragile provinces to map out plans to cope with the climate change. The "Provincial Programs for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in China" are a joint initiative of the Chinese and foreign governments and international agencies,

Wen Bo: Environmentalism growing in China

2008-06-30T10:59:00.000+08:00

By Tiffany Wong For CNN HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- Wen Bo says he was inspired to enter the environmental movement in high school when he watched the televised tactics of the international pressure group, Greenpeace.

Where Poor Is A Poor Excuse

2008-06-29T12:52:00.000+08:00

Beijing's brass lags behind leaders of nations with similar incomes. Melinda Liu and Jonathan Ansfield NEWSWEEK Updated: 12:03 PM ET Jun 28, 2008 China ranks 113th among all countries, with poor scores in air pollution and other ills of industrialization. Ask Chinese officials why their nation's environment is so toxic

David Harrison on China: victims of the boom

2008-06-29T12:51:00.000+08:00

Telegraph.co.uk Last Updated: 12:01am BST 29/06/2008 The cities may be thriving but in the countryside 800m peasants struggle to survive. As pollution, migration and 'land grabs' threaten to destroy rural China, protests are growing. How much longer, asks David Harrison, can the people be ignored? Photograph by Ian Teh Read part one and part two of David Harrison's letter from

Scandal of the cancer villages lurks behind China's 'green' makeover

2008-06-23T13:22:00.000+08:00

Activists have been gagged and lawsuits buried until after the Olympics Jason Burke in Hou Wang Ge Zhung The Observer, Sunday June 22, 2008Article history Beijing is shrouded with

Wind Energy Takes off in China

2008-06-17T10:27:00.001+08:00

Businessweek.com The wind is free and almost limitless in this huge, coal-dependent country, but harnessing its power for energy is more expensive When glimpsed from afar, the huge wind turbines look impossibly silent. Eleven machines, with 34-meter-long rotor blades, have been erected on the fringe of a large recreational park in Shanghai’s Nanhui district, about 34 kilometers from the

China Reports Some Progress on Pollution

2008-06-06T12:10:00.000+08:00

Agence France-Presse — Getty Image Chao Lake, above, in Anhui Province, has an algae bloom linked to pollution. In Jiangsu Province, China raised penalties for fouling Lake Tai after an outbreak. By KEITH BRADSHER HONG KONG — After rising steeply for many years, emissions of three important pollutants began to decline last year, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection

China’s Emerging Environmental Movement

2008-06-04T13:27:00.001+08:00

Quietly and somewhat surprisingly, green groups are cropping up throughout China and are starting to have an impact. In the first in a series on Chinese environmentalists, journalist Christina Larson visits with Zhao Zhong, who is leading the fight to save the Yellow River. by christina larson The northern route of the old Silk Road winds through a golden desert region of western China once