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Environment

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In a hurry to bury

Netizens mock plan to turn explosion site into eco park
Sep 11, 2015 (WiC 295)

Communities blighted by industrial disasters normally have to wait decades for the government to put up a memorial. It took 40 years for the city of Minamata in southern Japan to get a sculpture and a museum dedicated to the thousands who died ...

The air of despair

Documentary shines new light on the misery of China’s smog
Mar 13, 2015 (WiC 273)

No one in China had seen anything like the TV series River Elegy. This politically-charged documentary was surprisingly produced by the state-run broadcaster CCTV. Even more unexpectedly, it was wildly popular. Aired in June 1988, ...

Moving the mountain

Why does Lanzhou want CNPC, its main taxpayer, out of the city?
Jan 30, 2015 (WiC 268)

Yu gong yi shan is one of China’s most famous parables and dates from more than 2,000 years ago. It tells the story of an old man who decides to move a mountain blocking the view from his house. When told he’s crazy, the man simply ...

China’s extensive seawall is taking a perilous toll on the coastal ecosystem
Dec 12, 2014 (WiC 264)

China’s longest wall is typically acclaimed as a “great” one. But there is another lengthy barrier that is winning fewer plaudits. A team of scientists says the country’s 11,000km-long network of coastal fortifications is causing ...

Other cities want to copy Beijing’s success and turn their skies ‘APEC Blue’
Nov 28, 2014 (WiC 262)

What does APEC stand for? In China it has come to mean “Air Pollution Eventually Controlled”. The recent summit of Asia-Pacific leaders in Beijing brought about one of the longest pollution-free periods since the 2008 Olympics. For just ...

Turning off the tap

Guangdong’s new deal with Hong Kong comes at an awkward time
Oct 31, 2014 (WiC 258)

Water was once Hong Kong’s priciest import, owing to a chronic lack of it. The import bill peaked in 1929 when the territory suffered its worst drought – with only 90 millimetres of rain falling between January and April. The colonial ...

Debate warms up

Beijing signals it will curb carbon emissions
Oct 3, 2014 (WiC 255)

Five years ago China annoyed the world’s climate experts by sending a second tier official from the NDRC, the economic planning body, to negotiate with global leaders at the climate change talks in Copenhagen. While Barack Obama sat through the ...

Troubled waters

Drought refuels debates on a mega water-diversion project
Sep 5, 2014 (WiC 251)

ch has gone global. But in China the ice bucket challenge has taken a novel twist. Last week, a group of Henan residents were photographed wearing T-shirts which proclaimed, “Henan please say no to the ice bucket challenge.” To illustrate ...

The Kiwi kings of rubbish

Beijing Capital boss thrilled by waste management deal
Aug 1, 2014 (WiC 248)

John Keats lauded nightingales, Alexander Pope praised solitude, and Robert Burns immortalised haggis. And now Liu Xiaoguang has penned an ode of his own – to rubbish dumps. Liu is head of Beijing Capital Group, a conglomerate reporting to ...

Xi’an tries mobile sprayers in new pollution fight
Jun 27, 2014 (WiC 243)

The First Emperor would not be pleased. Qin Shi Huang spent much of his life searching for a way to live forever. And now his final resting place looks like being a threat to the mortality of many of its current citizens. Xi’an, home to the ...

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