The westward extension of the world’s largest water diversion project looks set to rock the “cradle of Chinese civilization”.
2022: Remember the light the young have shown us
“Even though you, having committed no crime, are detained, interrogated, and imprisoned, your stories, your youthful figures in the street at night, your swaying arms and flowers, and blank papers of protest, […]
Why is the salty tide at the mouth of the Yangtze River related to the high dams and large reservoirs in the Upper Yangtze River?

The Yangtze estuary’s saline tide has changed significantly since the impoundment of the Three Gorges Reservoir.
Vaccines don’t cause autism, trust us
The public health establishment fears what it might find if it studied whether vaccines cause autism.
Food, fuel, and inflation crises all stem from globalist policies

Globalists may believe that the world needs their new world order. But they also exemplify the adage that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Is there light at the end of the Omicron tunnel?
How much caution is enough? As the pandemic continues, the benefits of coercive caution may decline, while its human costs rise. Only time will tell whether our recently acquired coercion habit can […]
COPOUT26 — Face, farce and fiction, from Greta to Trudeau to Modi

There is no way to remove fossil-fuel emissions from the world without causing economic chaos.
Solar pandas are nice but coal is power
“The Chinese government can put in these fabulous looking solar panels on the sides of mountains that are in the shape of pandas and it’s all very very attractive, but the reality […]
Collaborating with China: Winnipeg lab debacle could be just the tip of the iceberg
The Chinese Communist Party has gained a foothold in Canada. The ever-deepening institutional co-operation and connection with the Beijing regime should prompt alarm, or at least serious discussion, but woe to those […]
The best advice of a Chinese water reservoir expert: Move
When it comes to the repair, upkeep and/or closure of dams across dam-packed China, the buck keeps shifting. But should one of these 80,000-plus time bombs explode? Renowned hydrology expert Wang Weiluo […]
Is the US becoming less free than Russia?
Russians don’t aspire to be Woke Americans and Americans don’t aspire to live under Russian-style strong-man rule. But unless the trend reverses, Americans could do worse.
India disaster highlights pressure on Asia’s great rivers
A glacial burst that triggered a deadly flash flood in the Indian Himalayas focuses fears on the impacts of “bumper-to-bumper” dam building in seismically active regions and China’s dam operations in neighbouring […]
Hot green air
In September, President Xi Jinping stunned and dazzled during a speech to the United Nations General Assembly when he pledged carbon emissions in China would peak before 2030 and the country would […]
Asset Recovery in OGP: Peer-learning on recovery, return and monitoring – lessons from the field
The 6th Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global Summit begins this week in Ottawa. Probe International’s Patricia Adams will moderate a discussion on identifying good practices and challenges in assets return and the promotion of peer-learning in assets recovery and monitoring. Organized by the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) and the MacArthur Foundation.
People power for China’s rivers
China’s environment minister enlists people power to help clean up the country’s “black and stinky” waterways.