Videos
Pictures Talk video series 看图说话微视频系列
From rising mountains of garbage to colorfully polluted rivers to desertifying grasslands and melting glaciers, China is faced with mounting environmental ...
Fresh Air By 2030 静候佳气
China’s Air Pollution: The Tipping Point By Michael Zhao When, in January, the gray, soupy, acidic air enshrouding China’s capital demanded the creation ...
Poyang: Tale of A Lake
The largest fresh water lake in China, Poyang has been drying due to the blockage of the upper stream Three Gorges ...
A Story of Invisible Water (Full Length) 看不见的水(完整版)
Produced by Lynn Zhang and Shirley Han. This is a 16-min full length version. You may also see the 4-min short ...
At Desert’s Edge 沙漠边缘
The threat of desertification is an issue of global concern. In China, expanding deserts are taking a ...
Himalayan Meltdown Trailer
CHINA GREEN is part of this Arrowhead production that airs on the Discovery Asia channel this spring. Asia Society is also ...
Don’t Cry, Three Gorges 三峡别哭
Since the first Three Gorges generator started operations in 2003 the water level in the reservoir has been rising, and with it ...
Baby Cribs on Yangtze Glaciers 长江源婴儿床
Weathering bone-cutting winds and mind-numbing cold, explorers and photographers have teamed up to document the retreating glaciers around the tributaries of ...
Summer of Yueming 曰明的暑假
China's economic development has successfully brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into the consumer society. ...
Inspiring China 萌芽中国
To celebrate 50 years of her groundbreaking research in Tanzania's Gombe National Park, world-renowned primatologist, conservationist and UN Messenger of Peace ...
The Story of Tsoe (Tibetan antelopes) 藏羚羊的故事
Today we are witnessing rapid changes inside Tibet as China races ahead into the 21st century. While growth and globalization have brought benefits to untold ...
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 is a mixed media project documenting desertification in northern China. Over 400 million people in China are being affected ...
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 ...
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
Globalization and climate change have an increasing influence on the stability of fragile mountain ecosystems and the livelihoods of mountain people. ...
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
Da Shu Xian, or Big Tree Country, in remote Sichuan Province is the site of a large sulfur mine, which produces ...
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
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 explores the development of Guanzhou Island, a pocket of untouched farmland in the center of Guangzhou, south China’s metropolis ...
Lessons of the Loess Plateau 黄土高坡的教训
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
China’s economic boom has fueled a flurry of real estate construction, but the growth has also exacerbated the nation’s growing energy ...
Damming the Angry River
With the rise of global warming, China, and nations around the world, are desperately seeking renewable energy sources. One solution for ...
China: Undermined
The Price of Coal, by Wu Nan, published January 2, 2008 on ChinaDialogue Hao Hualin calls the place where he grew up, ...
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 ...