The above interactive presentation will also be part of this exhibit, where viewers could actually interact with the page hands-on.

Originally published on August 27, 2012

Produced by Gloria Chan, Jian Yi and Xiao Qiping

Originally published on August 21, 2012.

China draws heavily on groundwater. However, in North China Plain, this limited resource is widely polluted and getting depleted fast.

Through the stories of three farmers in Hebei province, this documentary takes an intimate look into one of the world’s worst environmental crisis that are shaping the lives of millions.

Originally published on Friday May 11, 2012

Shirley Han Ying is a videographer, documentary producer, and video editor based in Hong Kong. With more than 7 years in media, Shirley has produced daily news, special features and documentaries for major news networks, including CNN and The Guardian. Shirley has lived and worked in China, South Korea, Iran and Hong Kong. Her work has also taken her to many countries around the world.

China draws heavily on groundwater. However, in North China Plain, this limited resource is widely polluted and getting depleted fast.

Through the stories of three farmers in Hebei province, this documentary takes an intimate look into one of the world’s worst environmental crisis that are shaping the lives of millions.

Originally published on Friday May 11, 2012

Shirley Han Ying is a videographer, documentary producer, and video editor based in Hong Kong. With more than 7 years in media, Shirley has produced daily news, special features and documentaries for major news networks, including CNN and The Guardian. Shirley has lived and worked in China, South Korea, Iran and Hong Kong. Her work has also taken her to many countries around the world.

Natural forests cover about 10 percent of China’s surface area, but few of the forests remain in a primary or pristine condition. These forests are threatened primarily by timber collection, mining, unregulated harvesting of flora for traditional Chinese medicine and excessive development related to increased tourism.

In China’s southern provinces, the mountainous forests that previously covered much of the region have been reduced by about 92 percent.

It is these forests which are home to last of the Giant Pandas, which number only approximately 1600 in the the wild. Progressive habitat destruction has pushed China’s most famous species to the brink of extinction.

In 2011, the UN’s official “International Year of Forests,” the forests of the southwest of China were classified by Conservation International as one of the world’s top ten most threatened forest regions.

Originally published on Thursday April 12, 2012

This photographic arc moves from deep within the coal mines to the glaciers of the greater Himalaya where greenhouse gasses are warming the high altitude climate.  As these mighty glaciers melt at an accelerated pace, the great rivers of Asia that flow from the Tibetan Plateau into the oceans are disturbed, and the lives of billions of people downstream are disrupted.

Video produced by Leah Thompson

Originally published on Friday February 3, 2012

《冰 + 煤》是一次纪实摄影展,展出包括来自中国、美国、加拿大、马来西亚、俄罗斯、匈牙利、波兰、挪威、意大利、德国和英国的三十位摄影师的作品, 以视觉的形式揭示了人类对煤炭的开采利用所触发的隐秘的连锁反应。

从煤矿深处出发，这些影像的抛物线落脚在喜马拉雅冰川群。温室效应气体正使高海拔的气候变暖，嵬巍磅礴的冰山加速融化，从青藏高原流入大海的亚洲各大河流遭受繁剧纷扰，下游地区数十亿人的生活正面临危机。

Now the river faces another dramatic transformation. Beijing’s government is spending the equivalent of over 2.5 billion US dollars to create a manicured landscape of lakes and parkland along the river. Designers say the project aims at restoring local ecology, but environmentalists believe that the facelift will only serve to increase pressure on Beijing’s water reserves. As Chinese officials increasingly appeal to environmental benefits when justifying large engineering projects, “The River Runs Back” takes an inside look at the development debate.

China’s wetlands cover some 65 million hectares, ranking first in Asia and representing ten percent of the world’s total wetlands. A quiet crisis is occurring however as these important waters are quickly disappearing.

As a result of China’s rapid economic growth in recent decades, coupled with climate change, vast swathes of China’s wetlands have now disappeared.

These changes are having serious consequences for the millions of people who rely on these sources of water and also severely affecting the flora and fauna of these regions, pushing many to the brink of extinction.

Photographer and Videographer Sean Gallagher spent 2010 traveling thousands of kilometers across China for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and China Green, to document the diverse affects of wetlands disappearance across the breadth of the country.

Originally published on September 8, 2011

Producers: Sean Gallagher, Michael Zhao

Thanks: David Barreda, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

While there is not one single solution to combating desertification, Kulun Qi, a dry area in northeastern Inner Mongolia, has shown signs of hope that may eventually work as an example to others adversely affected by encroaching deserts around the world.

At the Desert’s Edge documents the trials and tentative successes of a collaborative effort between locals, governmental initiatives and NGOs fighting to combat China’s growing deserts by planting vast barriers of trees.

By Jonah Kessel and Kit Gillet, originally published on July 28, 2011

Jonah M. Kessel (www.jonahkessel.com) is an award winning visual journalist based in Beijing. Between 2007-2011, Kessel took home over 40 awards for photo, video, design and Web projects. He has previously worked as the Creative Director of China Daily, as a photography consultant in North Africa and worked as a staff and freelance photographer and designer with newspapers in the United States. His work appears in publications spanning the globe including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Global Post and The Associated Press.

Kit Gillet (www.kitgillet.com) was a 2010 Knight Foundation Fellow and until recently a features writer for the South China Morning Post. His work appears regularly in the international press, for publications including The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy and CNN, among others.

Coal, steel, oil — we think of these old-economy industries, and we picture pollution. Smoggy skies, fouled rivers, toxic waste. As we make the transition to a new economy, we imagine that industrial pollution will become a thing of the past. Mobile phones, laptops, MP3 players — they conjure images of spotless semiconductor factories and the eternal summer of Silicon Valley where the digital economy was born.

But the tech industry has a dirty little secret: it has toxic waste of its own. Phones and computers contain dangerous metals like lead, cadmium and mercury, which can contaminate the air and water when those products are dumped. It’s called electronic waste, or e-waste, and the world produces a lot of it: 20 to 50 million tons a year, according to the UN — enough to load a train that would stretch around the world. The U.S. is by far the world’s top producer of e-waste, but much of it ends up elsewhere — specifically, in developing nations like China, India and Nigeria, to which rich countries have been shipping garbage for years.