When the massive earthquake hit in Sichuan province last month, environmental NGOs across China shifted gears. "We wanted to do anything we could to...
AP | AUDRA ANG | Posted 06.12.2008 | Home
BEICHUAN COUNTY, China — Hundreds of grieving parents blocked the road into a flattened town Thursday as police sought to quell a rising wave of...
Monroe Price | Posted 05.26.2008 | Media
There's a startling shift in international coverage of China. The harsh reporting in the last months over labor standards, lead paint, crushing of dissent and fostering genocides, now gives way to stories of courage.
AP | CHRISTOPER BODEEN | Posted 05.25.2008 | Home
AP reports on the powerful aftershock that rocked China: One of the most powerful aftershocks to hit quake-ravaged central China killed one person, ...
Megan Shank | Posted 05.22.2008 | Media
This urgency for homogenization of thought doesn't seem to be as unifying as it is fascist. There is no conflict between seeking the truth and honoring those killed in the Chinese earthquake.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.22.2008 | Life
The earthquake in China struck during one couple's wedding ceremony. The wedding photographer captures the images below. All 33 wedding guests survive...
Rebecca Fannin | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
Being in China one week after a massive earthquake reminds me of how advanced China is becoming -- and how the country's swift response has lessons for the U.S. and its poor handling of Katrina.
Rebecca Novick | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
Since March, the monks of Kirti have not been allowed to conduct their usual Buddhist rituals, but on May 15th, they received special permission to make an exception.
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
Ironically, Olympic glory, always threatened by braggadocio, may be delivered by disaster. Can anyone not be touched by a nation resolved to overcome woe and stand up again?
Megan Shank | Posted 05.18.2008 | Life
Watching earthquake coverage on CCTV Xinwen (CCTV's news channel) the other night, I witnessed something that shook me to the core.
Michael Standaert | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
Chinese hackers have gotten pretty good the past few years at disrupting things. I'm generally not in favor of encouraging hacker mayhem, but this case it a bit different.
Monroe Price | Posted 05.14.2008 | Media
Now, possibly it's mutual pullback time. The earthquake helps for China's repositioning of the temperature of its newspaper reporting.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home
The Bush Administration should go after the Myanmar junta for not letting well-meaning foreign governments deliver relief-- except that the Bush Administration did the same thing when we needed relief.
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
Wouldn't it be something if this current natural disaster in Myanmar could bring together George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton in another heroic relief effort?
Posted 04.21.2008 | Home
A strong aftershock shook Southern Illinois on Monday, three days after a magnitude 5.2 quake rattled the region. Geologists say the temblor just bef...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.18.2008 | Entertainment
Illinois was rocked by an earthquake thanks to the New Madrid Fault. According to SJ-R about the New Madrid Fault: The New Madrid earthquake fault zon...
AP | JIM SUHR | Posted 04.18.2008 | Home
Residents across the Midwest were awakened Friday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago's Loop and homes in Cincinnati but...
AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 04.14.2008 | Home
LOS ANGELES — California faces an almost certain risk of being rocked by a strong earthquake by 2037, scientists said Monday in the first statew...
AP | Posted 02.21.2008 | Home
WELLS, Nev. — Windows shattered and building facades and signs fell, but no one was seriously injured when a powerful earthquake shook this rura...
AP | Posted 11.16.2007 | Home
A powerful earthquake shook the border region of Ecuador and Peru late Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage. Local media...
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Treehugger.com | Alex Pasternack | Posted 06.15.2008 | Green