What to do when the law and basic humanity are in opposition? The Chinese internet has an answer: “Aim the rifle an inch higher” (枪口抬高一厘米, qiāngkǒu táigāo yī límǐ). The phrase is shorthand for subverting orders that violate...
Two research reports published this week underscore how authorities in Tibet have displaced local communities to impose state-sponsored projects, undermining environmental protection and human rights. The collaborative research...
A massive, months-long heat wave has scorched regions in central China. Intense droughts and evaporating water sources have choked energy supplies in several regions reliant upon hydropower, causing widespread power cuts and...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Four days after the June 1 capsizing of the Oriental Star cruise ship, only 14 of the ship’s...
Following a directive on Tuesday banning Chinese journalists from traveling to the site of Monday...
After a decade of construction, the middle route of China’s South-to-North Water Diversion...
Originally thought up by Mao Zedong in the 50s and given Beijing’s go-ahead in 2001, the...
China has built 22,000 dams taller than 15 meters since the 1950s, displacing some 16 million...
At China.org.cn, Wu Jin reports the devastation of the upper Yangtze river by overfishing,...
The Economist highlights water pollution, disappearing rivers and U.N. standard-shattering water...
Critics accuse Chinese authorities of overemphasizing more politically convenient explanations for...
Ars Technica’s Scott K. Johnson reports that the effects of retreating Himalayan glaciers on China’s rivers this century may be fairly limited, offering some rare respite from a stream of bad news about the...
Scientists in China are working to save the world’s largest freshwater turtle, which is on the verge of extinction, with only four known to be alive. Once prevalent in the Yangtze River and other parts of China and...
The Sydney Morning Herald’s National Travel Editor Anthony Dennis describes his cruise from Chongqing to Shanghai, revealing what makes the Yangtze River attractive from his own perspective after the construction of the...
At The Guardian, Jonathan Kaiman reports the approval by Chinese environmental officials of a proposed 314-meter-tall dam despite fears about its effects on the ecology of Sichuan’s Dadu River, an indirect tributary of the...
Seawater desalination may offer a promising supplement to diversion of freshwater to China’s dry north-east, especially as severe droughts in the south place the latter’s basic logic in question. Critics argue,...
“Shocking” news emerged last month of Chinese plans to resume hydropower exploitation of the Nu (Salween), Lancang (Mekong) and Jinsha rivers. At The Hindu, Ananth Krishnan reported that three new dams have also been...
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