As China’s Lunar New Year holiday continues throughout this week, CDT Chinese editors have collected and republished over a dozen essays, articles, and other content reflecting the zeitgeist of the transition from 2023’s Year of...
Catastrophic flooding caused by Typhoon Doksuri has killed at least 21 people, left approximately 26 people missing, and led to the evacuation of hundreds of thousands in northern China. Rainfall in Beijing broke a 140-year old...
At least 33 people have died due to flooding in Henan province. Hundreds of thousands more have been displaced, millions otherwise affected, and many remain missing. 24 inches of rain fell in the provincial capital Zhengzhou on...
At China Dialogue, Luna Lin reports division among scientists over the effectiveness of artificial...
At least 107 people were reported dead and hundreds more missing after floods caused by heavy rain...
Last Saturday’s downpour engulfed Beijing in a serious flood, and the water-logged capital’s anxiety is surely mounting as more heavy rains are forecasted throughout the week. As the city deals with the aftermath of...
Beijing’s floods are emblematic of government mismanagement. Chinese netizens are quick to make...
Update (August 23, 2012): The Fangshan authorities reported on July 23 that no elders died in...
The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies...
Rainfall of up to 18 inches brought death and disruption to Beijing over the weekend. From Andrew Jacobs at The New York Times: The heaviest rainfall in six decades caused widespread havoc in this capital over the weekend,...
Caijing scrutinises the impact of recent torrential rain in Beijing, arguing that the city was ill-prepared for the so called “100-year” downpour, whose magnitude was in fact widely exaggerated. On June 23, a...
Warming continues. From Xin Kuai Bao (新快报), translated by CDT: “The two most prominent features of 2007’s weather in Guangzhou have been higher temperatures and less rainfall,” experts from the Guangdong provincial astronomical association concluded as the year drew to a close. One of China’s largest subtropical cities, Guangzhou set numerous meteorological records in 2007. […]
From New Scientist: BELCHING chimneys and cars in China are making the skies dry up. Smoke particles are changing the behaviour of the atmosphere and preventing raindrops from forming. Chunsheng Zhao from Peking University in Beijing and his colleagues studied 40 years’ worth of rainfall records along with six years’ satellite measurements of aerosol particles. […]
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