For the first time in fourteen years, China has revised its air quality standards, introducing more stringent criteria for fine particulate matter (PM2.5). According to the new guidelines, cities will only achieve Class II air quality status if their annual mean PM2.5 concentration remains below 25μg/m3, compared to the previous threshold of 35μg/m3. The implementation […]

Upon entering the wooden house of a Blang family, one is immediately struck by the presence of enormous, dried seed pods suspended from the beams. Often as large as a child’s arm, these pods originate...

Recently, I had the opportunity to watch the play “Kyoto” at Lincoln Center Theater in New York, a dramatized recreation of the international negotiations that resulted in the historic Kyoto Protocol ...

“Bike graveyards,” unpaid deposits, and chaotic streets—these were the global headlines a few years ago when China’s brightly colored, mobile phone-activated, dockless shared bikes appeared in major c...

There are not enough garbages to be burned by the country’s fleet of Waste-to-Energy (WTE) incinerators, a viral video circulating on Chinese social media proudly declared recently. The high-temperatu...

On June 11th, Professor Tang Xiaoyan of Peking University passed away at the age of 93. In the days following her passing, environmental scientists, advocates, and policymakers around the world honore...

Bertie speaks with Ma Tianjie, author of "In Search of Green China," discussing China’s environmental transformation and how protestors have influenced policymaking.

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The EV maker’s labor rights scandal in Brazil adds fodder to an ongoing debate about China’s industrial prosperity that appears to benefit few in the country