More than half of China’s cities are affected by acid rain and one-sixth of major rivers are so polluted the water is unfit even for farmland, a senior official said on Friday in a bleak…
Category: Environment
20% price drop expected in five years as use of energy source rises BEIJING – The price of solar power in China is expected to drop by 20 percent in the next five years…
China has agreed to halt subsidies to wind power manufacturers that violate World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, according to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk. The move comes after the United Steelworkers Union filed a complaint…
A LEADING Chinese drugmaker in the country’s northeast has been exposed as having released pharmaceuticals into waterways and improperly burning medical waste, causing serious water, land and air contamination. Emissions from a factory operated by…
Floods triggered by heavy rains have killed 21 people and left 31 others missing in a county of Southwest China, the local government said on Tuesday. As of 2 pm on Tuesday, the floods had…
SHANGHAI – A recent chemical spill into the Xin’an River, an important source of drinking water for East China’s Zhejiang province, has led five water utility companies to stop drawing water from the river, a…
BEIJING – Nine people were killed and 13 others are missing after torrential rain triggered floods that lead to the evacuation of 60,000 people in Guizhou province, the province’s civil affairs bureau said on Monday….
To report out my article on China’s ambitious and troubled plan to divert water from the south to try to satisfy the drinking needs of people in the dying north, I traveled to the Han…
BEIJING — China’s three decades of rapid economic growth have left it with a “very grave” environmental situation even as it tries to move away from a development-at-all-costs strategy, senior government officials said on Friday….
WUHAN/CHANGSHA, June 4 (Xinhua) — Most of the drought-hit cities in central and southern China embraced moderate to heavy rain Saturday, bringing hope to end the worst drought in six decades in the middle and…