Jonathan Watts of the Guardian reports on new figures calculating the environmental cost of China’s economic growth: In one of the longest-term accountings of ecological degradation, the China academy for environmental...
Read MoreThe Guardian’s Jonathan Watts reports: Since the US embassy in Beijing began tweeting hourly pollution reports last year, I – along with many other smog watchers – have been horrified at the frequency of “bad”...
Read MoreThe Guardian’s Jonathan Watts describes China’s new plan for wildlife preservation, unveiled as the UN COP10 talks on biodiversity begin in Nagoya. China’s biodiversity action plan designates 52 priority conservation areas,...
Read MoreJonathan Watts reports for the Guardian (via chinadialogue): Since last year, there has been an explosion of lead poisoning cases close to smelting plants. Studies have shown that communities that recycle electronic waste are...
Read MoreIn Literary Review, Jonathan Mirsky reviews Guardian correspondent Jonathan Watts’ new book, When A Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind — Or Destroy It: Only last year, Thomas Friedman, three-times...
Read MoreIn the Guardian, Jonathan Watts writes about the recent craze for building golf course on protected land in Hainan: On the park’s map, the course is inside the core conservation zone, which is supposed to be off-limits to...
Read MoreJonathan Watts, Damian Carrington and Suzanne Goldenberg report in the Guardian: Rich nations furthered their “conspiracy to divide the developing world” at December’s UN climate summit in Copenhagen, while...
Read MoreWith China receiving much blame for the failure to produce a binding agreement at the Copenhagen climate change conference, former deputy prime minister of Great Britain John Prescott has defended China’s role in the...
Read MoreWith the Copenhagen climate change conference opening Monday, China’s Minister of Science and the Environment told the Guardian that he expects his country’s carbon emissions to peak by 2040. Jonathan Watts reports:...
Read MoreJonathan Watts, Asia environment correspondent reports on the Guardian: The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, will attend the Copenhagen climate talks next month, the government said today, as it unveiled firm targets for...
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