Livelihoods blown away: Each year for the last few years, the winds of March or April bring the desert to Beijing. No ordinary storms, these sun-darkening blasts shift and deposit millions of tonnes of sand across the city, into Tianjin and onwards, over the water to the Korean Peninsula and Japan. The dust storms, know in China as 'Yellow Dragons' have been increasing in frequency over the last decades.
China Reducing Pollution Ahead of Olympics: China's Olympic organizers are ordering "polluting enterprises'" in central Beijing to either renovate or move out of the area in preparation for the 2008 Summer Games. (NYT: Requires free registration)
After the Flood: Since the end of imperial rule nearly a century ago, Chinese leaders of all kinds—democrats and dictators, Nationalists and Communists, technocrats and dreamers—have shared a single, colossal engineering ambition: to dam the mighty Yangtze River. [This article links to a black and white slideshow] (NYT requires a free registration)
Chinese Researchers Confirm SARS Came from Animals : Genetic testing of animals sold as delicacies in a southern Chinese market confirms suspicions that the deadly SARS virus jumped from animals to people.
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