Infrastructure projects in Tibet have often drawn controversy for failing to balance development, human rights, and environmental protection. As CDT has covered this year, state-sponsored hydropower projects have forcibly...
China’s “distant-water fishing” (DWF) activities are both figurative and literal. Figuratively, the term “fishing the high seas” (远洋捕捞, yuǎnyáng bǔlāo) describes the phenomenon of cash-strapped local authorities replenishing...
A crackdown on rural Jiangxi’s lithium sector that might snarl global supply chains has cast a spotlight on the conflict between rural economic development and environmental protection. Earlier this week, investigation teams...
The Environmental Justice Foundation, an environmental NGO based in London, released a new report, titled “The Ever-Widening Net: Mapping the Scale, Nature and Corporate Structures of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing...
With the U.S. expected to retreat from its role as a climate leader in the wake of Donald...
In July, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled against China’s claims to...
China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday that nearly 500 students at Changzhou Foreign...
According to state television broadcaster CCTV, hundreds of students at Changzhou Foreign...
Almost exactly two years after Premier Li Keqiang declared “war on pollution” in his...
Human Rights Watch reports that authorities in Tibet are extending a village-based surveillance...
A longstanding and deeply-entrenched dispute between China and several of its neighbors over...
China will soon surpass the U.S. as the world’s top emitter of greenhouse gas, according to...
As heavy-smog season 2014-2015 begins in China, AFP reports that PM2.5 readings in Hebei province...
Due to increasingly stringent hydro project approval rules, and despite warnings of a...
Following a research report stating that Beijing’s environmental conditions are...
Citing a recent blue paper by the Social Sciences Academic Press and the Shanghai Academy of...
While China is home to around 25% of the world’s proven reserves of rare-earth elements...
While record smog levels in Harbin and elsewhere in northern China served as the latest reminder...
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