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Sea Changes

Amateur conservationists battle a rising tide of oceanic pollution and public indifference

Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)

June 8, 2019

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The Search for the River Goddess

Researchers on the Yangtze haven’t given up hope of finding the possibly extinct baiji dolphin

Hatty Liu

Feb. 20, 2019

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Gaming the System

Alipay’s environmentally conscious “Ant Forest” allows young Chinese to combine mobile payment with fighting pollution

Emily Conrad

Oct. 20, 2018

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Garbage Gangsters

China’s trash ban leads to illicit smuggling, debate on domestic recycling

Hatty Liu

July 31, 2018

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The Cost of Clean Air

North China appears to be winning a war on smog, but it’s not without casualties

David Dawson

March 23, 2018

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The Natural History Boy

The phenologist on a one-man mission to popularize science

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Feb. 7, 2018

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Close Encounters with the Third Kind

Deep in the mountains of Yunnan, Stefan Schomann joins the local schoolteacher who helped discover a new species of ape

Stefan Schomann

Jan. 27, 2018

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Everything Under the Sun

In just five years, China’s solar industry went from “life support” to global superpower, but are darker times ahead?

David Dawson

Oct. 8, 2017

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Beijing to halt all construction over smog fears

Winter is coming but new buildings are not

David Dawson

Sept. 22, 2017

TRADITIONAL CULTURE

Mammoth challenge to China’s ivory ban

The legal sale of mammoth tusks may be masking illegal trades in elephant ivory

Han Rubo

Aug. 12, 2017

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Green Star Over China

A glance at solar, wind, and biofuel projects that may change China’s technological landscape

Imogen Braddick

July 4, 2017

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E-Trash Talk

China is the number one producer of electronic waste, but there are solutions

Tyler Roney

June 3, 2017

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