an earthquake which recently rocked the Hebei province in northern China has left nearly 11,440 people injured and 44,000 homeless. Economic losses from the quake have been estimated at

The World Bank's report on the environment in East Asia says that disease and death will increase steeply among China's city dwellers unless the country tackles its growing air pollution. The

China continues with the world s most environmentally unsound dam project

Family planning restrictions in some urban areas of China have been eased allowing many of the parents of the one-child policy to have two children. The two-child rule, envisioned years ago, but

At a time when Chinese authorities are enforcing strict measures to control motor pollution, domestic refineries have started producing unleaded gasoline. Government authorities say that the shift in

Large portions of cultivable land may be lost to the desert in northwest China by end 1997

A dealer of rare fossils says he has found a dinosaur egg containing an intact embryo

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has planned to launch environment projects in China that will focus on air pollution, water management and education. The cost of three projects has

Nearly 140 people were killed and over 20,000 injured due to floods in southern China this year. According to Red Cross officials this year's floods were not as devastating as last year's. This

Giant pandas mate but once a year, producing at the most two cubs, only one of which usually survives the reproductive habits that try the patience of zoologists working to save the endangered