The New York Times has the latest on the so-called Quake Lake and the destruction of Beichuan, one of the town hardest hit by last month’s earthquake: The surge of floodwater into the town, Beichuan, was part of an effort...
Audra Ang of AP reports that the once foreboding “quake lake” is no longer a major threat to residents: Water churned through a drainage channel and engulfed empty towns Tuesday after Chinese soldiers blasted away...
From CNN: Fears were mounting Monday for the safety of more than a million people downstream from a “quake lake” in China as waters threatening to burst a dam of landslide rubble were rising faster than engineers...
Plans to drain water from the quake-created Tangjiashan Lake are now underway. AP reports: Water poured from a massive lake formed by China’s deadly earthquake in a carefully engineered diversion Saturday to ease the...
More news from the “quake lakes” formed by the Sichuan tremblor. This time the threat is coming from above in the form of rain, from The New York Times: As heavy rains descended on northern Sichuan Province for the...
AFP reports the latest on the “quake lake”: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Thursday that efforts to drain a dangerously swollen “quake lake” were at a critical juncture, with one million people warned...
From Reuters (via The New York Times): The largest “quake lake” formed by China’s most devastating earthquake in decades is not expected to start draining until Thursday due to a lack of rain, state media said....
Possible danger from the “quake lake” Tangjiashan may lead to the evacuation of 1.3 million people. AP reports: More than 1 million people may have to evacuate dozens of villages in a Sichuan province valley if an...
From China Daily (link): Water experts yesterday called for a stop to an ongoing project to cover a riverbed with an impermeable plastic cover to create a man-made lake in Jinan to be scrapped. Experts worry the plastic will disrupt the natural process of river water seeping into the ground, which they said would threaten […]
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