Source of Mekong, Yellow, and Yangtze Rivers Drying Up
from chinadialogueIn 2015, the Chinese government announced plans to set up a new nature reserve in the Sanjiangyuan (“three river source”)...
Living in China’s Expanding Deserts
People on the edges of the country’s vast seas of sand are being displaced by climate change
Duck-Rice, Honey Bees and Mandarins
There has to be a financial model which allows the farmers to see the impact of restoration on their business.
Killing Pika Won’t Save Tibetan Grasslands
from chinadialogueA pest extermination campaign is under way on western China’s Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. But experts say there is no scientific basis for the killing of the pika, a small rabbit-like...
Worse Than Poisoned Water: Dwindling Water, in China’s North
When 39 tons of the toxic chemical aniline spilled from a factory in Changzhi in China’s Shanxi province at the end of December, polluting drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people downstream along the Zhuozhang River and dangerously...
Climate Change, Not Grazing, Destroying the Tibetan Plateau
from chinadialogueSanjiangyuan—which literally translates as the “three river source area”—feeds China’s mightiest rivers. The 300,000-square kilometer region, high on western China’s Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, provides a quarter of the Yangtze’s water, almost half...
Desertification in Tibet’s Wetlands Threatens the Yellow River
from chinadialogueThe “kidneys” of the Tibetan plateau are failing.
The Zoige Wetland National Nature Reserve, which sits on the northeastern fringe of western China’s Qinghai-Tibet plateau, contains the largest alpine peat wetlands in the world. It is also...