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Pollution
June 01, 2022
Decades of Resistance: An Indian Community’s Struggle Against a Polluting Steel Plant
By Prasant Paikray
For two decades, the village of Dhinkia has pushed back against plans for destructive, polluting “development projects” in the area.
October 31, 2019
Ulaanbaatar: Growing Strong and Sick
By Nicholas Muller
Pollution and a serious health crisis have accompanied rapid urbanization in Mongolia’s capital
September 26, 2019
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.
August 09, 2019
Cleaning Kathmandu’s Air: Are Electric Vehicles the Answer?
By Arun Budhathoki
Can electric vehicles fix Kathmandu’s air pollution?
September 07, 2017
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.
August 31, 2016
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.
January 08, 2016
India: Trouble in the Air
By Neeta Lal
Residents of New Delhi are literally choking to death. Can authorities solve the pollution problem?
December 31, 2013
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.
July 23, 2013
China’s Demographic Dividend Could End By 2015
Plus, more damning reports on British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline’s activities in China. Tuesday China links.
July 19, 2013
China Asks EU to Help it Go Green
Plus, a second Chinese citizen electrocuted by an iPhone charger. Friday China links.
July 18, 2013
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.
June 21, 2013
Punishable by Death: China to Execute Polluters
Plus, the U.S. plans to sanction China over human trafficking. Thursday China links.
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