China’s South-North Water Transfer Project: an ambitious bid to solve water scarcity by rerouting major rivers. But at what ...

Lanzhou (bottom)—the first big city near the river’s headwaters, downstream from coal mining and processing operations—may have some of the most polluted water in China. Near a factory on ...

A pair of finless porpoises swim in the clear green Yangtze River in Yichang, Central China's Hubei province.

Every year, over the autumn and winter months, this district in China’s southeast Guangzhou province fills with the scent of drying tangerine peels, or chenpi. For some locals, it’s the smell of gold.

Chinese hydroelectric power plans in Tibet threaten to destabilize the Himalayan region’s ecology and politics.