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Off the Menu: Hong Kong Government Bans Shark’s Fin
Austerity and anti-graft comes to the rescue of sharks (whose fins are cut and hence the fish bleed to death). WSJ: “Hong Kong may be the capital of the world’s shark’s fin trade, but as...
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China to cut coal use, shut polluters, in bid to clear the air
China‘s fight against pollution continues unabated. Hope it is enough to save China (and the world). Reuters: “China unveiled comprehensive new measures to tackle air pollution on Thursday, with plans...
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The politics of Chinese dam-building: Opening the floodgates
The Economist: “CHINA has many good reasons not to build the $5.2 billion Xiaonanhai dam on the Yangzi river in Chongqing. The site, on a gentle slope that moves water along only slowly, is not ideal...
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China gets stake in Russian potash giant to secure supply
A few days ago, China acquired vast areas of farming land from Ukraine, now it is acquiring a secure source of fertiliser. It’s determined that the population gets fed! Reuters: “China acquired a 12.5...
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Growing Concerns About Pollution And Public Health In China
BusinessWeek: “Recently, I was invited to the Beijing apartment of a Chinese friend in his mid-20s. An attentive host, he brought out a tray of washed grapes, but looked dubious when I was about to...
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China and the Third Industrial Revolution
From: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-26/china-and-the-third-industrial-revolution#p1 Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends and best-selling author of The Third...
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China’s first ‘ivory crush’ signals it may join global push to protect...
China, the world’s biggest consumer of illegal ivory, crushed six tons of tusks and carved ornaments in public Monday, in an event that signaled it would do more to join global efforts to protect...
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UAE-led group expects to sign $2 bln India power deal soon -sources | Reuters
TAQA, majority-owned by the Abu Dhabi government, is buying two hydropower plants owned by Jaiprakash Power Ventures in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The plants have a total capacity...
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Government Study Finds 60 Percent of China’s Groundwater Polluted – Businessweek
At 59.6 percent of sites monitored by the Chinese government, the groundwater quality was “very polluted” or “relatively polluted”—that is, unfit for drinking—in 2013, according to a study released on...
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China’s Environmental Problems Deepen With Mountaintop Removals – Businessweek
To create more flat land for the fast-growing cities in western China, local planners are increasingly turning to the drastic measure of bulldozing mountaintops and filling in valleys with dump trucks...
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Pollution in Delhi Prompts U.S. Embassy Warning – India Real Time – WSJ
If you have children in New Delhi, you might not want to let them play outside today. The U.S. Embassy in the Indian capital said air quality – as measured at a monitoring station in the embassy...
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China must cut pollution by half before environment improves: official | Reuters
China needs to slash emission levels by as much as half before any obvious improvements are made to its environment, a senior government official said on Friday, underscoring the challenges facing the...
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China hopes novice environment chief will be breath of fresh air | Reuters
One year after “declaring war” on pollution, China has appointed an inexperienced outsider as its new environment minister tasked with breathing life into a massive clean-up campaign that even...
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China’s Air is Much Worse Than India’s, World Bank Report Shows – China Real...
India’s capital may have the worst air quality in the world on some days, but a new report shows that nationally, the air in the world’s second-most-populous country is far less polluted than in China....
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