Ordosmaxxing • Jeremy Wallace
The contradictions of the energy transition collide in the Inner Mongolian city of Ordos.
Essay
The Machine • Kaiser Kuo, David Fishman
Is China's green technology revolution a model—or a warning?
• 27 min read
The Re-birth of Village Trees • Yan Lianke, Jeremy Tiang
Acclaimed novelist Yan Lianke reflects on the cost of progress in rural China. Translated by Jeremy Tiang.
• 10 min read
Desert Island Politics • Kamil Ahsan
A battle for sovereignty—and control—is unfolding in the South China Sea.
• 18 min read
From Above and Below • Michelle Chen
China's top-down drive to transform the energy system creates an ever-greater need for solidarity to demand justice from below.
• 15 min read
Not Even the Sky • Martin Vrba
With a history shaped by unruly weather, China has much to gain—and little to lose—from intervening in the Earth system.
• 12 min read
How to Kill a Drought • Matthew Myers
Searching for answers to the water crisis in Hong Kong’s past.
• 16 min read
The Inconvenient Case of China • Mathias Larsen, James Jackson
When it comes to the green transition, China poses an inconvenient but important challenge to liberal democracies.
• 15 min read
An Accidental Climate Revolution • Iza Ding, Deborah Seligsohn
Rather than taking up the mantle of "climate leadership", China is walking a mundane path to global transformation.
• 14 min read
Introducing Issue #4: CHINA • Adrienne Buller, John Merrick
A note from the editors
• 8 min read
On the Hunt for Disease X • Oliver Basciano
As the planet warms, scientists are preparing for the spread of new and potentially lethal diseases.
• 13 min read
Reading Marshall Berman for the Climate Crisis • Katie Mulkowsky
In his 1982 classic, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, the late urbanist Marshall Berman rallied against car-centric cities and offered a radical vision for a better way to live together.