China

Echoing the peasant revolutions that led to the creation of modern China, farmers are rising up against the factories they accuse of contaminating rivers and destroying their livelihoods.

The reservoir at China's Three Gorges Dam will fill to capacity this year, flooding more than 400 square miles of land, including some precious historic sites.

The dam would have forced the flooding of one of China's most visited tourist sites and displaced more than 100,000. Plans are still in the works for a hydropower dam on the river, but the exact location is uncertain.

China is the world's fish capital, but extreme pollution has made much of its fishing waters and catches toxic.

This blog post from Wired takes a look at the expanding subway system of Beijing, China -- a system that is expected to become the world's second largest by 2015.

To stem the loss of farmland to development, the Chinese government is raising taxes on non-farmed arable land by 500%.

Officially named in 2001, this small town in China's Yunnan Province is struggling to cope with over 2 million visitors a year. It's becoming a "high altitude hell."

Metropolis Magazine talks with Chinese architect and planner Huasheng Sun about how the two fields have changed as the country transitioned from communism to a more capitalist society.

Rapid economic and physical development are posing problems for China's environment. But a new eco-friendly development model may soon replace the heavily resource-reliant "SuperBlock" development pattern.

Bike lanes will be required for all new roads built in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, according to government officials. The city is hoping to get more people out of cars and onto bikes.

China's rapid development is creating a demand for electricity that far outpaces the ability of suppliers to insert alternative energy sources -- those with fewer greenhouse gas emissions -- into the supply chain.

The controversial Three Gorges Dam project has displaced millions of people, and is about to displace millions more; but some wonder if official explanations about protecting sensitive areas and accelerating urbanization are accurate.

Rapid growth and expansion are bringing economic prosperity to the Chinese city of Shijiazhuang, but it is steadily swallowing the area's water supplies.

In one of the most congested cities in the world, one entrepreneur is hoping to etch away at the problem with his fledgling bicycle rental business. Currently there are 500 bikes in the system, but the owner has plans for more than 50,000 by 2009.

Government planners in China are proposing a megacity merger between Hong Kong and neighboring Shenzhen to create a metropolis of more than 20 million people, but some fear the metropolis would be too big.

Engineering and environmental problems abound near China's Three Gorges Dam.

The mixed results of an experiment to remove all private auto traffic from the streets of Beijing leads city officials to concede that there are no 'silver bullets' to cope with the city's air pollution during next summer's Olympics.

36 Chinese cities are on the fast track to building rail-based mass transit system. Within the next decade Shanghai's subway system is expected to become the world's largest.

A detailed plan proposed by Beijing's city planning agency would closely manage growth, limit construction in the central city, and relocate people away from heavily congested areas.

City officials in Beijing have begun a four-day effort to limit the amount of cars filling the city's streets, and many are calling the effort a successful model to use during next year's Olympics.