China Promises More Research in Antarctica
Beijing begins hosting the 40th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting today. At the South China...
May 22, 2017
Beijing begins hosting the 40th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting today. At the South China...
Jan 19, 2017
Photographer Wang Jiuliang uncovers the monumental waste created by development and progress. In...
Dec 3, 2016
With the U.S. expected to retreat from its role as a climate leader in the wake of Donald...
Oct 24, 2016
Last month saw the long-anticipated trials of three Guangdong labor activists charged with...
Jul 15, 2014
The story of China in Africa is not just one of lumbering and faceless state-owned enterprises...
Jul 7, 2014
The following censorship instruction, issued to the media by government authorities, has been...
May 29, 2014
While heavily-disputed and sometimes illegal Chinese extraction projects in Myanmar contribute to...
Mar 26, 2014
In 2010, China, then home to 40% of the world’s proven rare-earth reserves, accounted for...
Feb 6, 2014
Martin Patience at BBC News reports that a resource boom in Inner Mongolia has brought pollution,...
Jan 9, 2014
While China is home to around 25% of the world’s proven reserves of rare-earth elements...
Nov 8, 2013
Despite persistent buzz about its ambitions in the Arctic, most of China’s polar resources...
Oct 11, 2013
On their website, The Third Pole has posted an interview with Gabriel Lafitte, author of the...
Oct 9, 2013
High Peaks Pure Earth has recently translated posts from Tibetan blogger and activist Woeser on...
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...
Jul 11, 2013
Xinhua reports that five officials in Guangxi have been suspended over heavy metal contamination in the Hejiang river. The owner of one processing plant has also been detained, but as Businessweek’s Christina Larson...
Apr 23, 2013
Xinhua reports that the 61 giant pandas at the Bifengxia breeding center were not physically harmed by the 6.6Mw earthquake that struck Sichuan province on Saturday, killing 193 and injuring over 12,000: According to the video...
Apr 5, 2013
The Economist examines vigorous exploitation of Tibet’s natural resources in light of a landslide that killed 83 at a mine near Lhasa last week: THE ecology of the Tibetan plateau, noted the Ministry of Land and Resources...
Apr 2, 2013
Rescue work has resumed at the site of a disaster-struck mine near Lhasa after being suspended on Monday due to the risk of further landslides. The bodies of 59 of the 83 workers buried last Friday have now been recovered. China...