Carp ‘Saved,’ Then Caught, as Religious Act Goes Awry
At Sinosphere, Didi Kirsten Tatlow reports that Jinan fishermen sabotaged a traditional Buddhist...
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Improved Outlook for Himalayan Water Supply
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...
Secret Folk Music Holds Firm In Badlands
NPR’s Anthony Kuhn, recently returned to China, introduces the Shaanxi folk music known as lao qiang (老腔), or “old tune”: Traditionally, Lao Qiang musicians would accompany a puppeteer, who would tell stories...
Water Shortages: Desalination vs. Conservation
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,...
The Creation Myth of Xi Jinping
At Foreign Policy, John Garnaut digs into the often vague history of China’s likely next president, Xi Jinping. If every modern president needs a creation myth, then Xi Jinping’s begins on the dusty loess plateau of...
Bohai Sea Drowns in Discharged Waste
While the ConocoPhillips oil spill this summer and last year’s Dalian pipeline explosion have focused attention on pollution in the Bohai Sea, its problems reach both further back and further afield. From Caixin online: 80...
Serious Erosion in Yellow River Basin
According to a recent report by the Yellow River Conservancy Commission, 62% of the river’s basin is severely affected by water and soil erosion. From Businessweek: The study … says the affected area covers 180,000 square...
Harnessing the Ulan Buh Desert
While a recent Los Angeles Times article emphasized the use of water diversion to supply China’s cities, Beijing Review describes ongoing efforts to reclaim Inner Mongolian desert with laborious planting fed by redirection...
China’s Dark Side: On Yellow River, Corpses Mean Cash
Tom Lasseter reports on the phenomenon of ‘body fishing,’ or fishing for corpses, in China. From McClatchy: From his perch on an overhang above the Yellow River, Wei Jinpeng pointed to a fisherman’s cove below...
China Oil Spill Reaches Key Water Source
VOA gives an update on the recent massive oil spill, which has now reached the Yellow River, which provides drinking water to millions of Chinese: State media say the spill in an upstream tributary reached the massive river...
Less Blessed 神山恩渐少
As part of their China Green project, Asia Society has released a new documentary about the Yellow River. Watch it here: The Yellow River, also known as “China’s Sorrow,” often doesn’t reach the sea. Once the source of...
Dams On China’s Yellow River Near Collapse
From AFP: Several dams on China’s mighty Yellow River are close to collapse just a few years after they were built amid concerns that over 40 percent of the nation’s reservoirs are unsafe, state media has said....
One-third of China’s Yellow River ‘Unfit for Drinking or Agriculture’
A research group in China has found that industrial pollution and urban sewage has made one-third of the water in the Yellow River unusable. From The Guardian: The survey, based on data taken last year, covered more than 8,384...
National Geographic: Special China Issue
National Geographic Magazine has a special issue devoted to China, which editors describe as, “a map to help readers navigate the terrain of exuberance and anxiety that is China today.” It includes several articles...
Yellow River’s Flood Water Pours Into Town in Northern China
Xinhua reports from Inner Mongolia: Flood water is pouring into a town in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region after sections of the main embankment of China’s second longest river — the Yellow River...
Yellow River’s Flood Water Pours Into Town in Northern China
yellow river Xinhua reports from Inner Mongolia: Flood water is pouring into a town in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region after sections of the main embankment of China’s second longest river — the...
China to Divert More Yellow River Water for Olympics
From AFP: China has begun diverting water from the Yellow River towards Beijing for the second time this year as part of a major effort to supply the capital ahead of the Olympics, state press said Thursday. The diversion of up...
Yellow River Pollution Is Price of Economic Growth – Rob Gifford
National Public Radio broadcast the second in a five part series about the Yellow River. It includes an audio slideshow: In China, there’s a saying that a dipperful of water from the Yellow River is seven-tenths mud. The river contains more silt than any other waterway in the world, gaining its name from the loamy, […]
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