Can Artificial Rainfall Reduce Smog?
At China Dialogue, Luna Lin reports division among scientists over the effectiveness of artificial...
by Natalie Ornell | Nov 29, 2013
At China Dialogue, Luna Lin reports division among scientists over the effectiveness of artificial...
by Cindy | Aug 20, 2013
At least 107 people were reported dead and hundreds more missing after floods caused by heavy rain...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 25, 2012
Last Saturday’s downpour engulfed Beijing in a serious flood, and the water-logged capital’s anxiety is surely mounting as more heavy rains are forecasted throughout the week. As the city deals with the aftermath of...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jul 23, 2012
Beijing’s floods are emblematic of government mismanagement. Chinese netizens are quick to make...
by Wendy Qian | Jul 23, 2012
Update (August 23, 2012): The Fangshan authorities reported on July 23 that no elders died in...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jul 23, 2012
The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 23, 2012
Rainfall of up to 18 inches brought death and disruption to Beijing over the weekend. From Andrew Jacobs at The New York Times: The heaviest rainfall in six decades caused widespread havoc in this capital over the weekend,...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 5, 2011
Caijing scrutinises the impact of recent torrential rain in Beijing, arguing that the city was ill-prepared for the so called “100-year” downpour, whose magnitude was in fact widely exaggerated. On June 23, a...
by Michael Zhao | Dec 31, 2007
Warming continues. From Xin Kuai Bao (新快报), translated by CDT: “The two most prominent features of 2007’s weather in Guangzhou have been higher temperatures and less rainfall,” experts from the Guangdong provincial astronomical association concluded as the year drew to a close. One of China’s largest subtropical cities, Guangzhou set numerous meteorological records in 2007. […]
by Liu Yong | Jun 16, 2006
From New Scientist: BELCHING chimneys and cars in China are making the skies dry up. Smoke particles are changing the behaviour of the atmosphere and preventing raindrops from forming. Chunsheng Zhao from Peking University in Beijing and his colleagues studied 40 years’ worth of rainfall records along with six years’ satellite measurements of aerosol particles. […]