Pollution

Decades of Resistance: An Indian Community’s Struggle Against a Polluting Steel Plant

Ulaanbaatar: Growing Strong and Sick

By Nicholas Muller

Pollution and a serious health crisis have accompanied rapid urbanization in Mongolia’s capital

Confronting Southeast Asia’s Plastics Problem

By Mercy Barends

Women play a unique role in plastic management and face different, sometimes greater, risks. No solution is complete without their contribution.

Cleaning Kathmandu’s Air: Are Electric Vehicles the Answer?

By Arun Budhathoki

Can electric vehicles fix Kathmandu’s air pollution?

Towards a Resource Efficient and Pollution Free Asia-Pacific

By Shamshad Akhtar and Erik Solheim

This week sees the first-ever Asia-Pacific Ministerial Summit on the Environment.

Pollution Like Snow: A Mongolian Winter

By Peter Bittner

Mongolia’s true wintertime foe isn’t the cold or the snow. It’s the horrendous air pollution in Ulaanbaatar.

India: Trouble in the Air

By Neeta Lal

Residents of New Delhi are literally choking to death. Can authorities solve the pollution problem?

Making the Chinese Dream Come True

By Richard Ghiasy, Stephan Mothe, and Frances Pontemayor

If the Chinese Dream is to lead to a more viable social contract, the CPC must review how it produces and packages its messages.

China’s Demographic Dividend Could End By 2015

Plus, more damning reports on British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline’s activities in China. Tuesday China links.

China Asks EU to Help it Go Green

Plus, a second Chinese citizen electrocuted by an iPhone charger. Friday China links.

Killer Smog: East Asia, India, Southeast Asia Top Global Air Pollution

Study: More than two million deaths a year are attributed to poor air quality.

Punishable by Death: China to Execute Polluters

Plus, the U.S. plans to sanction China over human trafficking. Thursday China links.

UN Chief Ban Ki-moon Arrives in China

Plus, China mediates the Sudan dispute and the Communist Youth League holds National Conference. Tuesday China links.

In China, All Climate Politics Are Local

The central government in Beijing appears serious about reducing pollution and greenhouse gases. Will local leaders listen?

China's Next Challenge: "Health Drain"

China, with its latest flu outbreak and environmental situation, may well be on the cusp of coining a new term.

A Great Wall of Cars: Surviving China's 'Carmageddon'

Chinese consumers want to buy automobiles that reflect their growing economic status. It may come at a cost.

New Zealand and the Environment: An Economy Fit for the Past?

This small country has a proud history of progressive reform. But some worry that the current government is turning back the clock.

Here Comes the Haze, Again

Inertia within ASEAN and a refusal to enforce rules mean Southeast Asia is again grappling with “the haze.”

Tackling China's Toxic Factories

Transparency is key to cleaning up China’s factories. Undercover young environmentalists are trying to help.

Beijing Pollution at "Crisis Level"

Beijing’s air pollution has hit crisis levels, says one official. Will the govt change the way it measures air quality?

Beijing Air Pollution Brouhaha

Smog recently forced the cancellation of hundreds of Beijing flights. Locals’ patience over pollution is wearing thin.

Beijing Opens Up on Pollution

Beijing has opened its air pollution monitoring center to individual members of the public for the first time.

Return of the Haze

While parts of Asia are flooding, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore are once again grappling with haze pollution.

Quenching China's Water Thirst

Too hazardous to touch in some places, China’s Yellow River has been choked by pollution and sediment. Joe Lamar reports on officials’ struggles to clean up the ‘Mother River’ and stem demand from the country’s ever thirstier provinces.

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