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1st August 2008
China's 'rapid renewable surge'
China's rapid investment in low carbon technologies has catapulted the nation up the global renewable energy rankings, a report shows.
BBC News
Guardian Unlimited
31st July 2008
Quake orphans' new life
Video documenting China quake orphan
BBC News
Its green medal hopes are lost but Beijing must race on
Failure to meet the Olympic cleanup pledge will embarrass China. If it stays ambitious, however, it can earn real respect
Guardian Unlimited
30th July 2008
China's renewable energy revolution
Photogallery
Guardian Unlimited
Chinese teacher sent to labour camp for earthquake pictures
A Chinese teacher has been sent to a labour camp over his internet photographs of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake, a rights group said today.
Guardian Unlimited
25th July 2008
Life in the shadow of China's melting glacier
Glaciers in the Tian Mountains in western China are melting due to global warming. Jonathan Watts photographs how this affects local people
Guardian Online
Energy in China: 'We call it the Three Gorges of the sky. The dam there taps water, we tap wind'
Wind energy output is trumping targets, and competition between operators is fierce, but coal still reigns supreme
Guardian Online