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China: Drought raises questions about climate change
Posted by Reuters: Chris Buckley on June 4th, 2011
Reuters: A boat is seen stranded on the cracked bed of a dried area of Xieshan, which is part of Poyang Lake in east China's Jiangxi Province Lake Honghu, China - China's drought along its biggest river, the Yangtze, is for some scientists a demonstration of how global warming could increasingly disrupt the complex dance of air flows, rains and waterways that feeds dams and farming heartlands. Many older farmers around Lake Honghu, part of the drought-stricken Yangtze River basin, said summers and winters...
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Drought exposes water, power woes threatening China
Posted by Reuters: Chris Buckley on June 3rd, 2011
Reuters: Wang Guzhen and Xiao Gongguo count the cost of central China's drought with each push needed to heave their fishing boat through mud to shrinking Lake Honghu, surrounded by drying flats strewn with grounded boats.
The months-long drought parching middle and lower parts of the Yangtze River basin is the latest reminder of the risks that China's limited and heavily used water sources pose for the world's second-biggest economy.
Even before this drought, smaller lakes around Lake Honghu were disappearing,...
China drought raises questions about climate change
Posted by Reuters: Chris Buckley on June 3rd, 2011
Reuters: China's drought along its biggest river, the Yangtze, is for some scientists a demonstration of how global warming could increasingly disrupt the complex dance of air flows, rains and waterways that feeds dams and farming heartlands. [ID:L3E7GV15V]
Many older farmers around Lake Honghu, part of the drought-stricken Yangtze River basin, said summers and winters had seemed warmer in the past decade, and some said overall rainfall had shrunk, although impressions varied.
Few blamed global warming,...
China minister warns pollution, resource waste imperil growth
Posted by Reuters: Chris Buckley on February 28th, 2011
Reuters: China faces acute environmental and resource strains that threaten to choke growth unless the world's second-biggest economy cleans up, the nation's environment minister said in an unusually blunt warning. In an essay published on Monday, Zhou Shengxian also said his agency wants to make assessing projected greenhouse gas emissions a part of evaluating proposed development projects. That could give China's Ministry of Environmental Protection more sway in climate change issues, an area dominated...