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…
Category: Environment
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…
CHENGDU, June 2 (Xinhua) — Panda researchers at Wolong base in southwest China’s Sichuan Province are planning to release six more pregnant bears into a semi-wild environment this year hoping to help more captive-bred pandas…
China is planning to build cross-border wetlands and nature reserves in its northeastern provinces to protect precious bird and fish species, the Minister of Environment Protection Zhou Shengxian said Thursday. The wetlands and nature reserves…
HONGHU, Hubei – About 18,000 summer birds have been forced to leave their stopover at Honghu Lake early because of the persistent drought in Central China. “Normally, about 20,000 summer birds come to the lake…
BEIJING – The decision to outlaw the free distribution of plastic bags at shops and supermarkets in an attempt to protect the environment is still a hot topic three years after the ban came into…