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The Real Cost

What is China's real gross domestic product when the cost of pollution is subtracted? Recently, the Chinese government tried to calculate a national "Green G.D.P." and the new formula showed the soaring economy in a more sober light.

 
         
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Sending Water North

The Chinese government has embarked on a massive engineering project to transfer water from the wet south to the dry north. Will this solve China's water shortage crisis, or create a whole new set of problems?

 
     

 

 
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Lake Tai's Environmental Warrior

In 2005, China's central government saluted Wu Lihong for his private campaign to stop the pollution of Lake Tai. Local government officials in tandem with factory owners, however, had a different view of Wu Lihong--and had him arrested in 2007.
 
         
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Living with the Three Gorges Dam

The world's largest dam is creating clean, renewable energy--but it is also posing other risks.
 
         
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Energy Rules

Central government-mandated targets for energy efficiency look good on paper, but visits to three factories in China’s west reveal problems with enforcement by local officials.
 
         
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The Last Female Banbie Turtle

China contains some of the world's richest troves of biodiversity, yet according to one survey, 40% of the country's mammals, amphibians, and reptiles are endangered.
 
         
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Ten Million Problems

Trucks are the mules of China's spectacularly expanding economy--ubiquitous and essential, yet highly noxious.
 
         
   

The World's Fish Basket

Fish farms providing about 70 percent of the world's farmed seafood now extend along China's entire coast and inland as well.

 
         
   

Blast Furnace No. 7

The mass shift of polluting industries from West to East has blighted China's economic rise, while giving the West cleaner air and water.