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China environmentalist alleges brutal jail treatment By Robert Saiget (AFP) – 19 hours ago BEIJING — A top Chinese environmentalist said Tuesday he was beaten and suffered brutal treatment while serving a three-year jail term imposed after he spoke out about rampant pollution in a major lake.Wu Lihong also told AFP that authorities tried to force him to confess to bogus extortion charges. He

Has China Really Gotten Serious About Climate Change? (Sep 25)
A thick smog settles over Beijing. Paula Bronstein / Getty Via Time.com By Bill Powell Thursday, Sep. 24, 2009 To get a sense of how far the Chinese leadership has come on the issue of climate change in a relatively short period, consider a conference held two years

E-Waste: There’s an App for That (Sep 24)
The iPhone is coming to China -- and so is a lot of technological trash. BY ADAM MINTER | SEPTEMBER 23, 2009   Before year's end, Apple and China Unicom will finally launch the iPhone in China, leaving hundreds of thousands of affluent Chinese cell-phone users with an increasingly pressing question: What should

Three river delta areas sinking, report claims (Sep 24)
By Wang Qian (China Daily) Updated: 2009-09-23 07:40 Three river deltas in China are sinking due to global warming and excessive extraction of underground water, leaving millions of people with an increasing risk of floods, a recent scientific report showed. The Pearl, Yangtze and Yellow river deltas in China are among the 33 major deltas studied, with 24 of them found to be sinking,

China Emerges as the Yin and the Yang of the Global Warming Problem (Sep 22)
By LISA FRIEDMAN of ClimateWire The first of an occasional series on China's climate issues. BEIJING -- Staring up at the dazzling, $32 million screen of light-emitting diodes suspended above one of this city's luxury shopping malls, it's hard to see China as a struggling "developing" country. Sitting on a stone ledge with 34-year-old Wai Shen Ching hundreds of miles away in the

Legal Struggles for a Cleaner Environment (Sep 21)
An environmental group's success in court against a local government agency may lay the groundwork for legal progress. By staff reporters Qin Xudong and Luo Jieqi (Caijing Magazine) A court in southern China needed only 34 days to settle a 15-year-old environmental predicament at a nature reserve. But much more time may be needed to overcome obstacles to environmental law in China that surfaced

China Racing Ahead of U.S. in Drive to Go Solar (Aug 25)
Ryan Pyle for The New York Times Suntech, China’s biggest solar panel maker, has reduced the price of panels sold in America to build market share. By KEITH BRADSHER WUXI, China — President Obama wants to make the United States “the world’s leading exporter of renewable energy,” but in his seven months in office, it is China that has stepped on the gas in an effort to become the dominant