GUIYANG – A lingering drought has caused water shortages for 4.28 million people in China, the country’s drought relief authority said on Monday. A farmer looks anxiously on Monday at peanut crops that have been…
Category: Environment
BEIJING – The average air quality in 45 major cities – nearly four out of every 10 major cities in the country – was rated as “poor” in the first half of this year, according…
BEIJING – Hail storms and tornadoes had killed 97 people in China in July, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said on Sunday. A total of 20.16 million people in 27 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions were…
The local government of Mianyang city, in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, recently warned citizens not to drink tap water as the city’s major water source was polluted by tailings from a local electrolytic manganese plant….
Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu on Tuesday urged governments at all levels to do more to prevent flood disasters. The possibility of severe floods “cannot be underestimated,” Hui said at a meeting of the State…
Thunderstorms have been battering Chongqing, damaging homes and farmland, cutting power supplies, and affecting about 275,000 people since Thursday. More than 1,500 houses in the southwestern China municipality have been damaged by the continuous storms…
BEIJING – Huang Xiaoshan, an environmental activist, has decided to invest in and open a garbage sorting station that he will call “the green house”. And helping him in that endeavor will be the local…
BEIJING – Oil from a huge spill off China’s coast has been found ashore in two separate areas, authorities said on Wednesday, sparking calls for greater transparency about the disaster. Environmental protection organizations have warned…
Nowadays, we have satellites, radars and other unmanned devices across the country collecting data for weather prediction. But you’d be wrong if you thought the job of a weather forecaster is just pointing at a…
The United Nations and China have opened a third sustainable tourism observatory in the world’s most populous country to monitor the environmental and socio-economic impacts of tourism. The Zhangjiajie Observatory, located in Hunan province, will…