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BEIJING – After four years of migration, over 4 million people have been evacuated from their homes to make way for the waters of China’s gargantuan hydroelectric project. At 2,309-meters in length, the dam should provide affordable energy to a rapidly developing nation. Critics, however, point to the negative impacts of human displacement, geologic alteration […]
Water pollution from homemade fertilizer affected the drinking water of 9,000 people in two towns in southwest China’s Yunnan province last week and killed 20 tons of fish in a fishery, officials said on Tuesday.Read more here.
Changes in patterns of precipitation in an already parched region, leading to severe shortages of freshwater.
The blowing sand in Inner Mongolia is more evidence of the consequences of the duel China fights as it promotes rapid industrial development.
World Economic Forum Press Release Davos, Switzerland, 27 January 2008 – The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008 closed today with a call by business, government and civil society leaders for a new brand of collaborative and innovative leadership to address the challenges of globalization, particularly the pressing problems of conflict – especially in […]
East Umchjin County, near the border with Mongolia, a place renowned for what Chinese scientists call "typical grasslands.
An Inner Mongolia herder, confined by the government to a small pasture for his animals, is nevertheless more fortunate than some.
600 miles north of Beijing the whole of the largest contiguous grasslands on Earth opens to the horizon.
By Keith Schneider Circle of Blue Senior Editor excerpted from Modeshift.org Late last summer we sent a reporting team to Inner Mongolia, China to cover the front lines of the freshwater crisis in Asia. The members included a writer based in South Korea, a Getty Images photographer from Malaysia, an artist and grasslands specialist from […]
