ENVIRONMENT

A Year of Climate Challenge: China’s Top Environmental Stories in 2024

From extreme drought and typhoons to growing renewable energy capacity, here are the key environmental stories shaping China in 2024

ENVIRONMENT

Into the Eye: China’s Intrepid Storm Chasers

As climate change triggers an increase in natural disasters across China, a small but growing group of people are driving into the heart of mayhem to capture stunning images from the center of typhoons, tornadoes, and hailstorms—providing invaluable resources for disaster research

ENVIRONMENT

Troubled Waters: A Lakeside Village Struggles to Adapt to China’s Landmark Fishing Ban

More than three years on from a fishing ban on Poyang Lake, one fishing community is still straining to reinvent itself

The Photos That Defined 2022

From climate change to picnics to testing kiosks, these were the photos that captured the mood around China in 2022

ENVIRONMENT

Surviving a Summer of Extremes

Ordinary people from Chongqing and Sichuan share how they survived the heat waves and wildfires

SOCIETY

The Cost of a Pandemic

Fighting Covid-19 has brought big losses and big profits for different sections of Chinese society

NEWS

72 Hours in Henan's Floods

Photos and voices from the people living through catastrophic floods central China

ENVIRONMENT

The Ultimate Flood Sacrifice

China’s flood-relief policies have long relied smaller, impoverished cities and villages to divert waters from big population centers

ENVIRONMENT

China’s Uneasy History With Nuclear Energy

As a solution to air pollution and climate change, nuclear power is attractive to Chinese authorities—but what about the public?