Polluting Plants Shut by Officials Found Still in Use
A recent round of inspection checks by China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has...
by Cindy | Apr 22, 2017
A recent round of inspection checks by China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jan 19, 2017
Photographer Wang Jiuliang uncovers the monumental waste created by development and progress. In...
by Cindy | Apr 20, 2016
China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday that nearly 500 students at Changzhou Foreign...
by Cindy | Apr 18, 2016
According to state television broadcaster CCTV, hundreds of students at Changzhou Foreign...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 14, 2015
A Berkeley Earth study of newly released air quality data from 1,500 sites across East Asia has...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 26, 2015
At RFA, Wei Ling and Wen Yuqing report that a protest against a paraxylene (PX) plant rumored to...
by Cindy | Jun 12, 2015
On Friday, a court in Hunan Province began hearing a landmark pollution lawsuit filed by a group...
by Sophie Beach | May 24, 2015
While China’s environmental crisis has increasingly been a focus of popular discontent in...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 7, 2015
Following an explosion at a chemical plant in Fujian, cartoonist Rebel Pepper has translated...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 14, 2014
Over the weekend, thousands of residents of Boluo County, Guangdong took to the streets to protest...
by Natalie Ornell | May 27, 2014
Jennifer Duggan at The Guardian reports that the Chinese government has announced plans to take up...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 15, 2013
China has seen a series of bloody incidents in recent years, most recently including a string of...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 5, 2013
Reuters reports that thousands of fish have been found dead in a river outside of Wuhan after a...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 29, 2013
Danwei’s Alexander Ye interviews artist Satan Lucky, whose monstrous embodiments of aspects...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 13, 2013
At The Asian Review of Books, the University of Sydney’s Kerry Brown reviews Gabriel Lafitte’s forthcoming book, Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World, available October 8th: A few...
by Cindy | Aug 6, 2013
Falling prices, weak demand and mounting debt in China’s steel industry have led to a series of closures and mergers in recent years, leaving many mills abandoned. At China Dialogue, Gao Shengke reports that health risks...
by Sophie Beach | Jul 30, 2013
In 1997, widespread protests against a paraxylene (PX) plant in Xiamen, Fujian forced officials to change their plans and launched the NIMBY movement in China. The plant was moved to inland Zhangzhou, and was completed and...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 29, 2013
At The Wall Street Journal, Josh Chin and Brian Spegele explore the environmental deterioration of China’s countryside, which threatens to undermine both the security of the country’s food supply and the legitimacy...