Stories by Coco Liu

The coal industry withdraws 15 percent of China's water, much of it in arid northern China

Efforts to use biomass rather than burning it in the fields could help ease China's energy needs, displacing coal and cutting air pollution

A program to reduce deforestation relies on funding from markets to reduce greenhouse gas pollution

Clean-car mass production has struggled in China both due to faults with the vehicles and the government incentives designed to promote them

China is investing in the technology in the hopes of garnering emissions reductions and exports

Crop losses from climate-related challenges are already affecting the nation's ability to feed more than 1.3 billion Chinese

The nation's hydropower production dropped by 25 percent thanks to an unusual drop in river flow

China is attempting to reverse course back to bicycle-friendly cities to curb automotive gridlock and pollution

Tianjin Eco-City is an attempt to demonstrate how cities can avoid pollution

The global financial capital may face flooding from rising sea levels as a result of climate change

A combination of better and more durable building materials could help slash Chinese energy use

A landfill in Hangzhou may become a model for dealing with China's growing garbage problem

To keep residents riding the rails and to win more drivers' hearts, Chinese cities are using various incentives and disincentives, as politicians promise to increase urban rail systems threefold and bus rapid transit 10-fold by 2015

China moves toward carbon emissions trading to improve energy efficiency and competitiveness

Compared with Europe and the U.S., China has a key advantage in aiming to deliver a generation of new professionals and workers who are literate in the demands of clean energy