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Environment

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Flood season remains chaotic in China
Jul 14, 2017 (WiC 374)

People don’t talk about China having a monsoon the way they speak of the summer downpours in India or Southeast Asia. But China’s rainy season is every bit as dramatic – and deadly. In fact, so far, this year torrential rains have ...

Why Hongkongers aren’t showing enough gratitude to Heyuan residents
Jan 27, 2017 (WiC 353)

The state of Lesotho is surrounded on all sides by South Africa. Normally the two countries get on well enough, but last year Lesotho suffered from a serious drought and people began feeling a little resentful towards their encircling neighbour. ...

Wealth but not health?

China starts the new year again choking in heavy smog
Jan 6, 2017 (WiC 350)

When Chinese Premier Li Keqiang declared war on pollution two years ago, he described it as a deadly enemy, and promised “we must fight it with all our might”. Xi Jinping, China’s president and Li’s senior colleague, has made similar ...

More bad news for China’s coalminers
Sep 30, 2016 (WiC 341)

“I have repeatedly said that green mountains and clear water are as good as mountains of gold and silver.” So insisted Xi Jinping in his opening address to the G20 summit in Hangzhou this month. The evening before, China and the US had ...

Beijing finally gets serious about soil pollution
Jul 29, 2016 (WiC 335)

China’s air pollution woes are widely understood. Images of streets shrouded in smog and urban residents wearing protective masks are commonplace. But China’s challenges with other less visible forms of pollution are often neglected. Such ...

Heavy downpours flood more Chinese cities
Jul 22, 2016 (WiC 334)

It was supposed to be capable of handling the kind of deluge that happens just once in a thousand years. Instead, the controversial Three Gorges Dam hasn’t prevented the worst flooding in just two decades after the lower reaches of the Yangtze ...

Force of nature

Jiangsu’s worst natural disaster in decades kills 98
Jul 1, 2016 (WiC 331)

The Chinese word for tornado is longjuanfeng – or literally, a dragon coil wind. Like many Chinese terms it is poetically accurate, conveying the destruction that twisters can bring. But that won’t be of any consolation to the ...

Health scandals at two schools might hasten first soil pollution law
Apr 29, 2016 (WiC 322)

Three years ago there was widespread concern at reports that over 120 brands of rice, the staple diet for much of southern China, were tainted by cadmium (see WiC195). Although troubling, the news was not without precedent. In 2011 Caixin ...

A tough problem to mask

Red alert in Beijing as Paris talks reach decisive moment
Dec 11, 2015 (WiC 307)

The ‘Mandate of Heaven’ is a Chinese concept about the right to rule that dates back many millennia. And worryingly for China’s current leadership when Beijingers looked towards those same heavens this month they didn’t see a lot: ...

Kicking the bottle

WiC talks with China Water Risk about China’s bottled water industry
Nov 6, 2015 (WiC 302)

The Jinmao Tower rises 420 metres into the air, forming part of the iconic skyline that overlooks the Bund from Shanghai’s Pudong district. The tower’s design was intended to convey prosperity: it has 88 floors and its blueprints are ...

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