Posted by Alex Wang
This past Monday sometime around three in the afternoon our staff in Beijing felt a strange swaying sensation, a few of them said they felt dizzy and saw the glass partition walls of our offices buckle and wave for a...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Solving Global Warming
Today was my first day at the “united nations climate change conference” in Nusa Dua, Bali. In the U.S., we still have to deal with Fox News, the Wall Street Journal editorial page, and a NASA head who claims...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Curbing Pollution , Greening China
It's a beautiful day in Beijing today, which made me think about this picture someone sent me a few months ago:This is a photo of Beijing on two consecutive days about a year ago in 2006. This, in a single...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Curbing Pollution , Greening China
Pollution is causing rainfall to decrease in certain parts of China. A little noticed study published in Science earlier this year, somewhat opaquely entitled “Inverse Relations between Amounts of Air Pollution and Orographic Precipitation,” found that average precipitation in a...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Curbing Pollution , Greening China , Living Sustainably
It’s no secret that the products that fuel our daily consumer lives in the U.S. are now overwhelmingly produced in China. Try living a year without buying anything “Made in China” and see how you like it (one woman seems...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Curbing Pollution , Greening China
The hot topic in Beijing this week is whether the murky haze of smog that usually covers the city will be lifted when the world's athletes begin to descend on Beijing in August 2008. This summer certainly hasn't been pretty...continued→
