Posted by Alex Wang in Curbing Pollution
Let's say information about factory emissions of toxic metals was readily available to the public in Hunan and Shaanxi provinces. Would more than 1,600 children still have been poisoned by lead or cadmium recently? Or would local citizens instead have had the...
Posted by Alex Wang in Curbing Pollution , Greening China
Michael Zhang in our Beijing office put together the following analysis of recent announcements in China: At a presentation of the Government Work Report to the NPC and the CPPCC, Premier Wen Jiabao mentioned two figures that environmental analysts in...
Posted by Alex Wang in Curbing Pollution , Greening China
Barbara Finamore and I had an article in the China Daily last week concerning pledges of “green stimulus” in China and the U.S. It has been a bad air week in Beijing with the API hitting a smoggy 131 (Grade...
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...
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...
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...
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...
