by Carlin Rosengarten | Apr 4, 2016 | Air quality, China, Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Featured, India, Remote Sensing
This post originally appeared on World Economic Forum Agenda Forum. Photo credit: A hazy view of Shanghai, China By Aly Song/REUTERS This post was co-written and compiled by Carlin Rosengarten and Angel Hsu. As the world is becoming wealthier, the air we...
by Carlin Rosengarten | Apr 3, 2016 | China, Energy, Featured, Uncategorized, Urbanization
This post originally appeared on Scientific American. Photo credit: Chinese coal-fired power planet Wikimedia under CC BY-SA 3.0 license This post was co-written and compiled by Angel Hsu, Andrew Moffat and Kaiyang Xu. China last week released its draft 13th Five-Year...
by Angel Hsu | Mar 6, 2016 | Air quality, Big Data, China, Data
When it comes to our most pressing environmental challenges, much of the data needed to take effective action are missing. Water quality, recycling rates, toxic chemical exposures, land degradation – assessing these environmental issues is hampered by the lack of...
by Angel Hsu | Dec 23, 2015 | China, Climate
By Angel Hsu, Andrew Moffat, and Kaiyang Xu. This post originally appeared on ChinaFAQs. From the Paris Climate Negotiations The international climate agreement reached at the recent 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change...
by Angel Hsu | Oct 9, 2015 | China
U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and China’s President Xi Jinping reach out to shake hands at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 12, 2014. Photo by Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images, originally posted on ChinaFile. Originally posted on ChinaFile, on...
by Angel Hsu | Mar 3, 2015 | Air quality, China
A new documentary on China’s air pollution problem by a former CCTV journalist has gripped the Chinese public and is forcing the government to own up to the severity of its environmental challenge. If you haven’t seen it already, a new 103-minute...
