by Angel Hsu | Apr 1, 2012 | Sights
A while ago, my friend Jess reported on freakishly accurate rip-off Apple stores in Kunming, the provincial capital city of Yunnan in southwestern China. If you remember, employees at these stores actually thought they were working for Apple. On my last visit to China...
by Angel Hsu | Mar 28, 2012 | Air quality, China, Indices
Earlier this month, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) released the official (trial) revisions to the Ambient Air Quality Index (AQI, which is a notable shift from its previous form as the Air Pollution Index, or API). I wrote last February...
by Angel Hsu | Mar 27, 2012 | Indices
The 20th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit is quickly approaching this June. To support the negotiations for a “Future We Want,” the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and Center for International Earth Science Information Network have applied...
by Angel Hsu | Feb 25, 2012 | China, Climate
This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post. It may not be coincidental that soon after NBA Knicks’ Jeremy Lin dazzled the nation with a seemingly infallible jump-shot, China’s vice president, heir apparent and avid basketball fan Xi Jinping made...
by Angel Hsu | Feb 20, 2012 | Air quality, China, Remote Sensing
This post originally appeared on China Dialogue. The Great Wall may not, after all, be visible from space – but Chinese air pollution is. A team of researchers at Battelle Memorial Institute and Columbia University, in collaboration with Yale University, recently...
