Sanjiangyuan which literally translates as the “three river source area” feeds China’s mightiest rivers. The 300,000-square kilometer region, high on western China’s Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, provides a quarter of the Yangtze’s water, almost half of the Yellow River’s, and 10 percent of the Mekong’s.Crucial as this area is, its environment is deteriorating, with rising
A great piece of news came from China on the night of December 16, that the Yunnan provincial government in southwest China has announced its decision to not develop hydro-electric projects on the Nu River, also known as the Salween (link in Chinese). The news soon exploded on Chinese social media, especially among conservationists such as Ms. Wang Yongchen, who cried upon
[Updated: March 6, 2015] Our friends at Foreign Policy hit the nail on the head by headlining writer Yiqin Fu's Monday story "China's National Conversation about Pollution Has Finally Begun." What happened? Well, in the last weekend of February, the feature-length Chinese documentary "Under the Dome" was released, first on the website of the state-run People's Daily newspaper,
China is weaning its economy off coal and fossil fuels. However, it is also trying to shut down as many as 40,000 hydropower plants. The nation has a troubled history of trying to control its [.]
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