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...
Beijing begins hosting the 40th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting today. At the South China...
Photographer Wang Jiuliang uncovers the monumental waste created by development and progress. In...
With the U.S. expected to retreat from its role as a climate leader in the wake of Donald...
Last month saw the long-anticipated trials of three Guangdong labor activists charged with...
The story of China in Africa is not just one of lumbering and faceless state-owned enterprises...
The following censorship instruction, issued to the media by government authorities, has been...
While heavily-disputed and sometimes illegal Chinese extraction projects in Myanmar contribute to...
In 2010, China, then home to 40% of the world’s proven rare-earth reserves, accounted for...
Martin Patience at BBC News reports that a resource boom in Inner Mongolia has brought pollution,...
While China is home to around 25% of the world’s proven reserves of rare-earth elements...
Despite persistent buzz about its ambitions in the Arctic, most of China’s polar resources...
On their website, The Third Pole has posted an interview with Gabriel Lafitte, author of the...
High Peaks Pure Earth has recently translated posts from Tibetan blogger and activist Woeser on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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