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The Story of Tsoe (Tibetan antelopes) 藏羚羊的故事

The Story of Tsoe (Tibetan antelopes) 藏羚羊的故事

A short documentary film by Sam Wangyal and Andrea Paffetti courtesy of Wild Nomads. Partially narrated by Dr. George Schaller with Wildlife ...

Climate Change: China 2009 气候变化:中国在行动

Climate Change: China 2009 气候变化:中国在行动

A production by, and courtesy of, China Meteorological Administration and other Chinese agencies outlining what China has done in 2009 combating ...

Vanishing Grasslands 沙尘吞噬的草原

Vanishing Grasslands 沙尘吞噬的草原

By Jonah M. Kessel: Vanishing Grasslands is a mixed media project documenting desertification in northern China. Over 400 million people in China ...

Why China? Why Climate? 着眼中国,关注气候

Why China? Why Climate? 着眼中国,关注气候

Both China and United States rely heavily on the burning of fossil fuels – coal in particular – to fuel their ...

Longing for Blue Skies 向往蓝天

Longing for Blue Skies 向往蓝天

Air pollution is an unfortunate consequence of China's recent rapid development. The 2008 Olympics are focusing global attention on Beijing's air ...

Shanzhai Electric Car Revolution 山寨电动汽车革命

Shanzhai Electric Car Revolution 山寨电动汽车革命

While Warren Buffet’s investment in the Shenzen-based BYD electric car company put the world spotlight on China’s inroads into producing larger ...

ICIMOD: For Mountains and People

ICIMOD: For Mountains and People

Globalization and climate change have an increasing influence on the stability of fragile mountain ecosystems and the livelihoods of mountain people. ...

Less Blessed  神山恩渐少

Less Blessed 神山恩渐少

The Yellow River, also known as "China's Sorrow," often doesn't reach the sea. Once the source of devastating floods that plagued ...

Dark Clouds

Dark Clouds

With photographs by Ian Teh, this is a journey into some of China's most industrialized cities, a journey to the other ...

Big Tree County

Big Tree County

Da Shu Xian, or Big Tree Country, in remote Sichuan Province is the site of a large sulfur mine, which produces ...

Disappearing Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau 1

Disappearing Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau 1

A quick visual tour of some of the world's highest glaciers on the Himalayan Mountain Range and other regions on the ...

Everest’s Vanishing Glaciers

Everest’s Vanishing Glaciers

In the fall of 2007 and again in 2008, David Breashears traveled to the Chinese face of Mount Everest, a mountain he ...

Climate Change: China’s Actions 2008

Climate Change: China’s Actions 2008

In 2008, China’s State Council Information Office published a white paper entitled “China’s Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change.” The ...

Guanzhou Modernized

Guanzhou Modernized

Guanzhou Modernized explores the development of Guanzhou Island, a pocket of untouched farmland in the center of Guangzhou, south China’s metropolis ...

The Lessons of the Loess Plateau

The Lessons of the Loess Plateau

In Northwest China’s Loess Plateau, an area roughly the size of France and the birthplace of Chinese civilization, agriculture and grazing ...

Energy Retrofitter Sohota 圣通的央视节能改造

Energy Retrofitter Sohota 圣通的央视节能改造

The Story of Sohota by Ariane Wu China’s economic boom has fueled a flurry of real estate construction, but the growth has also ...

Damming the Angry River

Damming the Angry River

A short film courtesy of Zhou Xiaoli and Brent Huffman. See German Camera Production for their contact info. With the rise of ...

China: Undermined

China: Undermined

The Price of Coal, by Wu Nan, published January 2, 2008 on ChinaDialogue Hao Hualin calls the place where he grew up, ...

Origins of Rivers: Omens of a Crisis 江河始危机源

Origins of Rivers: Omens of a Crisis 江河始危机源

As the source of most of the major river systems in Asia from China to Pakistan, including the Yellow, the Yangtze, ...

Four Great Rivers

Four Great Rivers

Southeastern Tibet’s vast “sea of forests” contains one-seventh of all the timber reserves in China. In 1997, China banned harvesting in ...