Asia Times Online :: The Ruined Land

PART 1: The death of China's rivers
Thousands of years of environmental degradation have wrecked vast reaches of China, polluting its waters and denuding its landscape.

PART 2: Peasants bear the brunt of energy plans
China's huge dam project on the Yangtze River is pushing millions of villagers out of the homes their families have occupied for centuries. China-based journalist Jasper Becker visited the villages of the gorge to talk to them.

PART 3: China in an energy quandary
China is so energy-starved that its soaring economy could become constricted. Plagued by pollution from burning coal, it sees hydropower as its savior. But that has its environmental costs too.

PART 4: China awakens to its devastated environment
After ruinous floods in 1998, then Chinese premier Zhu Rongji ordered a whirlwind reforestation and rehabilitation program. The cleanup program is having its own problems.

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