Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
The parade of pollution incidents in China has continued over the past few months and the Chinese (and international) media should be applauded for their continued coverage. In addition to pollution incidents in Shaanxi, Hunan, Inner Mongolia and elsewhere (see...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
Chinese photographer Lu Guang has won the 2009 W. Eugene Smith Award for his pictures of pollution in China. You can see an extensive set of photos here. If you have not seen Eugene Smith's photographs of Minimata, you should take a look. They...continued→
Posted by Alex Wang in Greening China
It is not often one gets the chance to see a criminal trial in China, particularly one with national attention. We had that chance last week. Here is a bit about what we saw. A little background first: Last June, Yangzonghai Lake,...continued→
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...continued→
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...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→
