Myanmar Jails 155 Chinese Citizens for Illegal Logging
In Myanmar, 155 Chinese citizens have been sentenced—all but two to life—for illegal logging....
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NGOs Face “Pounding” as Environment Test Proceeds
The Wall Street Journal’s Te-Ping Chen reports that a case over deforestation in Fujian is testing...
Chinese Logging Threatens Myanmar Ceasefire
Hereward Holland of National Geographic investigates illegal logging in Myanmar, largely...
Rubber Boom Threatens Yunnan’s Elephant Haven
While Chinese demand for ivory threatens Africa’s elephants, Yunnan’s 300 Asian...
Environmental Activist Wu Dengming Dies
Founder of the Chongqing Green Volunteer League, Wu Dengming, who in his retirement organized no car days, tracked down pollution offenders, and risked his safety to film illegal logging in Sichuan forests, died at 73, according...
Dams & Deforestation: Yunnan’s Water Woes
At The New York Times, Andrew Jacobs reports environmentalists’ frustration with the decision to resume damming on southwest China’s Nu River. The new dams are expected to displace as many as 60,000 people locally,...
Will Forks Conquer Chopsticks in China?
After a National People’s Congress member and timber executive bemoaned the strain placed on China’s environment by the use of disposable chopsticks, a fresh round of debate has emerged over whether China should wean...
The Uncertain Return of Beijing Wildlife
The sky above Beijing is best known for characteristics other than its bird life. Nevertheless, the city’s birds appear to have multiplied over the past ten years thanks to new habitats offered by reforestation to combat...
The Zhouqu Mudslide: “The National Ecological Disaster in Microcosm.”
At China Dialogue, Jiang Gaoming examines the role of human activity in last year’s deadly Zhouqu mudslide: Zhouqu county, in China’s north-western province of Gansu, was once known for its forests, rich water resources,...
Mud Buries a County Devoid of Trees and Plans
An article in Caixin looks at the role deforestation 50 years ago played in the recent devastating mudslide in Zhouqu, Gansu: Many scholars and local officials think deforestation and other manmade conditions played a...
More Missing in New China Landslide
Another deadly landslide, this one in Yunnan. From Al Jazeera: At least 67 people have been reported missing after new mudslides hit a town in southwest China, adding to the thousands already killed or missing in floods and...
China’s Fight Against Disposable Chopsticks
The Los Angeles Times finds the link between disposable chopsticks and China’s deadly landslides: With summer floods devastating southern, western and northeastern China, a massive oil spill smothering the Yellow Sea off...
China Sandstorm Leaves Beijing Shrouded in Orange Dust
BBC reports on the massive sandstorm that blanketed Beijing today: By Saturday, the storm had spread over an area of 810,000 sq km (313,000 sq miles) with a population of 250 million, state news agency Xinhua reported. It was...
China’s Loggers Down Chainsaws in Attempt to Regrow Forests
Jonathan Watts, who is now the Guardian’s Asia environment correspondent, reports for the paper on deforestation in China. He begins the report by describing the massive tree-planting effort known as the Green Wall of...
Forests’ Recovery Will Take Decades
Many have seen the once-in-50-years magnitude of this year’s snowstorms that hit central and south China, yet the consequences have yet to be felt in the years, even decades, ahead, according to China Daily: The freezing...
Green Cost of Sleet: $8b of Forest Wealth
Yes, China lost a lot of tons of vegetables and crops in the wake of mega snowstorms. Also gone are slowly recovered forests, says China Daily: About 18.6 million hectares of forests were destroyed or damaged – it is equal...
China’s “Green Deserts” – Gaoming Jiang
From China Dialogue: China’s tree-planting movement continues down a worrying path. The planting of artificial, single-species forests has not abated in China; in fact, it has worsened. The country’s original distribution of trees: fir trees in the south, poplars in the north, has made way for poplars everywhere – north, south, east and west. There […]
US, China Cooperate to Stop Illegal Logging – AFP
As part of the Strategic Economic Dialogue, the U.S. and China have reached an agreement on illegal logging and associated trade practices, according to AFP: The deal provides for steps that will “help conserve forests and their wildlife and reduce deforestation — a major factor in the global effort to address climate change,” the statement […]
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