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Environment

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China’s top threat?

New report points to water crisis facing industry
Oct 5, 2012 (WiC 167)

The Chinese have long been accustomed to associating their rivers with colours. The best example is the Yellow River, the country’s second-longest after the Yangtze. The Yangtze also gets local mention as the Golden Waterway or Gold Sands River ...

The east is red

Controversy over colour of Yangtze River
Sep 14, 2012 (WiC 164)

In its journey of almost 6,500 kilometres from the Tibetan Plateau to the East China Sea, the Yangtze River takes on many hues. At its source in Qinghai province, where it is fed by the meltwater of the Geladandong glacier, it is icy blue. By ...

New book dissects China’s environmental failings
Aug 31, 2012 (WiC 162)

"To struggle against the earth is endless joy,” or so goes a line penned by young poet, Mao Zedong. Those words turned out to be prophetic. Many of Mao’s later policies led to desertification, deforestation and famine. The damage didn’t end ...

Starting to crack

Shanghai struggles with subsidence
Apr 13, 2012 (WiC 145)

On the afternoon of April 1, Yang Erjing, a 27 year-old office employee, was returning to her place of work in west Beijing when the pavement suddenly collapsed beneath her, plunging her in to a pit of scalding water. Yang had sustained 90% ...

A radical new policy to clean-up Chinese rivers
Mar 2, 2012 (WiC 140)

Last week WiC interviewed an industry expert on China’s growing water crisis (see WiC139). It made for gloomy reading. And almost at the same time a report released by the Ministry of Land and Resources made for even more of a sinking feeling ...

Clearing the air

Government succumbs to public outcry on data
Jan 13, 2012 (WiC 134)

Has the population of Beijing just experienced a “People Power” moment? In a turnabout decision, the government last week said it would begin reporting figures on fine particulate air pollution, or PM 2.5, the main cause of haze in the ...

Very particular

Beijing citizens worry about pollution levels not even being reported
Nov 25, 2011 (WiC 130)

Was it the tipping point for public acceptance of poor air quality in Beijing? That was one question in October, as the pollution shrouding the capital hit dangerous levels for 18 of 30 days (see graphic on the right where severe days are ...

Beijing air quality plummets, controversy ensues
Oct 21, 2011 (WiC 126)

Most of China takes a whole week off to celebrate its October 1 National Day, and tourists flock to landmarks like Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City. This year everything started out well under a blue autumn sky. But by day four ...

The final word on garbage

Why China wants to build world’s biggest rubbish incinerator
Sep 23, 2011 (WiC 123)

When an economy is growing at 9% a year, you can be sure that garbage is also piling up at a startling rate. This issue was in the news again last week when Nanfang Daily reported that Shenzhen plans to solve its own waste management problems ...

Chemical reaction

Landmark protests on Sunday see plant closed
Aug 19, 2011 (WiC 118)

Television cameras were busy last week showing scenes of people taking to the streets. In most cases the images were of rioters and looters causing havoc in London and other English cities. But in Dalian, thousands also turned out at the ...

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