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Tag Archives: China
Mapping China and India’s diasporas
The Economist maps the largest twenty countries of China and India’s diasporas. More Chinese people live outside mainland China than French people live in France, with some to be found in almost every country. Some 22m ethnic Indians are scattered … Continue reading
briefly noted: disruptive technological change
1) The Atlantic on the Digital Underground of North Korea 2) New York Times Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software about innovations in AI that allow textual analysis of large sets of documents. The article discusses two approaches … Continue reading
Posted in Reorganization
Tagged AI, China, internet, Rebecca MacKinnon, technology, text analysis
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GMO crops and shifting agricultural food webs
A recent paper by Yanhui Lu and others in Science (DOI: 10.1126/science.1187881) shows how ecological impacts of Bt cotton at the landscape level have lead to a surge in pests. In northern China, the cotton crop is 95% Bt cotton. … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Greenlash
Tagged agriculture, Bacillus thuringiensis, Bt cotton, China, GMO, Kongming Wu, mirid bug, pesticide, Yanhui Lu
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Over fertilizing the world
Three faces of global over fertilization from agriculture in China and the USA, and its complex effects on food webs. 1) Chinese farmers are acidifying there soil by over applying fertilizer. Acidic soils impede crop growth and amplify the leaching … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management, Ecosystem services
Tagged acidification, agriculture, China, fertilzier, food webs, India, nitrogen, USA
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Arctic Futures ReOrient
In Nature Reports Climate Change, Keith Kloor reviews Cleo Paskal‘s new book Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map. He writes: Paskal convincingly argues that short-sighted domestic and foreign policies are already eroding “the … Continue reading
Posted in Reorganization
Tagged arctic, China, Cleo Paskal, climate change, international relations, northwest passage
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China from the air and China from the ground
In Time magazine, China historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom discusses new writing about China in Big China Books: Enough of the Big Picture. He praises Peter Hessler‘s new book Country Driving, as an example of grounded scholarly reporting. Hessler’s previous book, Oracle … Continue reading
Lu Guang’s China
Chinese environmental photographer Lu Guang won the 2009 W. Eugene Smith grant in humanistic photography for his for his project, “Pollution in China.” (For more information and photos see NYTime’s Lens blog , and China Hush). The W. Eugene Smith … Continue reading
Posted in Visualization
Tagged China, Lu Guang, Orville Schell, photography, pollution, W. Eugene Smith
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Nigeriatown
In a New Yorker article – the promised land – Evan Osnos about African merchants living in China. He also narrates an Audio Slide Show about the economic, social, and religious life of African migrants in Guangzhou. On his blog … Continue reading
Illegal logging, black globalization, and undercover environmentalists
Black globalization is an evocative name for how multi-nationals and mafias can blur together by using violence and global trade to avoid regulation, certification, and quality control. In the New Yorker article The Stolen Forests Raffi Khatchadourian writes about the … Continue reading
Algal Bloom along the Coast of China
There has been a lot of news coverage of the large coastal algal bloom at China’s Olympic sailing site in Qingdao. The Chinese government claims the bloom is now under control. NASA’s Earth Observatory has published some remote sensed images … Continue reading
Posted in Regime Shifts, Visualization
Tagged algal, China, eutrophication, hypoxia, MODIS, Qingdao
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