Chinese skyscraper designed to set efficiency benchmark

China is in the middle of the greatest building boom in human history, with armies of construction workers erecting skyscrapers that will soon eclipse anything in New York City in terms of height and energy consumption.

Toxin Is Accelerating Demise of Fossil Fish

A chemical applied to ship hulls is robbing Chinese sturgeon of their eyes and causing other deformities, according to a new study. The toxin may deal a death blow to the already-endangered fish, a living fossil that the Chinese government considers a “national treasure.”

Deformities in Chinese sturgeon linked to chemical

A paint chemical that is widely used in China is leaking into the Yangtze river and may be responsible for deformities and decreasing numbers of rare wild Chinese sturgeon, a study has found.

China plastic bag ban ’saved 1.6m tonnes of oil’

Banning flimsy plastic bags has been dismissed as a drop in the ocean when it comes to dealing with the world’s environment problems, but multiplied on a China scale, it appears to have made a big difference.

Tread Heavily: China’s Tire Demand Rolls over Southeast Asian Forests

Geographer Jefferson Fox thought he was on to something big when the Chinese military stripped his team’s weather monitoring equipment from a montane rubber plantation in the run-up to last year’s Olympics. How big? In the past 20 years, more than 1.2 million acres (485,000 hectares) of evergreen broadleaf and secondary forests have been cleared throughout Southeast Asia to make way for rubber plantations to fuel China’s growing appetite for automobile tires.

Drain rice fields to cut methane, say scientists

Global methane emissions from rice paddies could be cut by 30 per cent if fields are drained at least once during the growing season and rice crop waste is applied off-season, according to a study.Methane is a significant contributor to global warming and is produced by certain types of bacteria in oxygen-deprived environments – such as those feeding on the organic waste in water-covered rice paddies.

China tells rich nations to cut emissions by 40 percent

Rich nations should cut their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels as part of a new global climate change pact, China said on Thursday, spelling out its stance ahead of negotiations.

Boycott illegal trade, protect our wild tigers

“Boycott illegal trade, protect our wild tigers” is the key message of a consumer campaign launched today in China by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network.

The campaign will see an animated film “Tiger Evolution Ends—Don’t Let This Be the End” screened on Beijing’s Line 1 and 2 subway trains from tomorrow, International Day for Biological Diversity.

Boycott illegal trade, protect our wild tigers

“Boycott illegal trade, protect our wild tigers” is the key message of a consumer campaign launched today in China by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network.

China tells rich nations to cut emissions by 40 percent

Rich nations should cut their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels as part of a new global climate change pact, China said on Thursday, spelling out its stance ahead of negotiations.

Carbon Capture and Storage May Be Key to Climate Bill

Call it a China Syndrome for the age of global warming.

Pay farmers to halt irrigation to ease water crisis, China told

China should pay farmers to halt irrigation in the environmentally degraded far west despite long-standing concerns about food security, a senior government adviser has told the Guardian.