Everyday China
Can an old landfill become a garden?
The C40 account dates the landfill’s closure to 2005 and describes restoration work beginning in 2014 across about fifty-two hectares. The project then…
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Places & Regions
How can three rivers stay apart?
In north-west Yunnan, three great rivers run close together through different deep valleys.
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Everyday China
Why save more than one kind of millet?
A dryland farming landscape can keep many crop varieties and kinds of knowledge alive.
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Everyday China
Why does a railway care about frozen ground?
On the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, warming ground can change the job a railway foundation must do.
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Everyday China
The Jinhua park designed to let floodwater in
Yanweizhou Park combines floodable terraces, planted areas and an elevated bridge, showing a concrete approach to a water-resilient landscape.
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Everyday China
Can a satellite see through clouds?
Some Earth-observation instruments collect information that an ordinary camera cannot.
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Everyday China
Where does an old car battery go?
The useful materials in an EV battery do not disappear when it leaves a car.
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Everyday China
What happens when the sun is too generous?
Building solar panels is only one part of making solar electricity useful.
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Everyday China
Rice, fish and ducks in one working field
In Congjiang, Guizhou, a rice–fish–duck system depends on local varieties, carefully timed introductions and shared water management.
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Chinese food
Why do flowers meet tea at night?
Fuzhou jasmine tea depends on the timing of flowers as well as tea leaves.
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Everyday China
The fish pond behind a piece of silk
In Huzhou, mulberry trees, silkworms and fish ponds are connected by leaves, nutrients, water and carefully timed work.
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History, Arts & Traditions
The dams behind Liangzhu’s ancient city
Liangzhu’s jade objects belong to a much larger archaeological landscape of rice fields, raised ground, dams and waterways.
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