Choking on Growth: China's Environmental Crisis

Choking on Growth: China's Environmental Crisis

A series of articles and multimedia examining the human toll, global impact and political challenge of China’s epic pollution crisis.

The Overview
China's Water Crisis
The Activist
Three Gorges Dam
Energy Rules
Wildlife Threatened
Polluting Trucks
Farming Fish
Two Steel Towns
A Green Olympics?


Rule by Law

By JOSEPH KAHN and JIM YARDLEY
Articles in this series examined the struggle in China over the creation of a modern legal system.

February 25, 2007

City Limits
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
Articles in this series examined the phenomenal growth of Shenzhen from a sleepy fishing village near Hong Kong to a booming Chinese metropolis.

December 19, 2006

Crosscurrents: The Yellow River

By JIM YARDLEY
Articles in this series examined life along the Yellow River in China.

December 2, 2006

The Great Divide

By JOSEPH KAHN and JIM YARDLEY
Articles in this series examined the widening gap between the rural poor and urban rich that has made China, the world's fastest-growing economy, also one of its most unequal societies.

December 31, 2004

The World's Sweatshop

By JOSEPH KAHN
Articles in this series examined the hazards facing industrial workers in China, now Asia's leading exporter to the United States.