This great photo by photographer Jaune d’eau is the perfect visual pairing for the news this week that China has overtaken the US as the world’s leading producer of climate-warming gasses.
Every week(ish) we’ll feature an interesting, funny, beautiful or otherwise noteworthy photo here. If you have a photo you think might make a good Photo of the Week, throw it in the pool at the Lost Laowai flickr Group and if you’ve got a great caption for it, send that to us as well.
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With all the seriousness going on with 
China Celebrates Its Status As World’s Number One Air Polluter
There are few things I love more than photography, Photoshop and good Chinese controversy. Imagine my delight then when I stumbled across a WSJ article, “China Eats Crow Over Faked Photo Of Rare Antelope“, that melds the three.
In what has become this month’s journalistic black-eye (in a LONG line of similar cuts and bruises) for China, it’s been discovered that a photo of the rare Tibetan antelope (or Chiru) casually cavorting along the Tibetan plateau as the new Qinghai-Xizang high-speed train bullets by was completely fake.
The image, photographed manufactured by …
One of my New Year’s resolutions in 2008 is to fight pessimism.
Anyone else fed up with BAD news about the environment? Why is it always BAD news when there are pockets of resistance all over the world fighting for the environment against something much more dangerous and insidious than the build up of greenhouse gases: apathy.
Whilst most of us sit around deciding whether or not to believe the suddenly trendy science of pop stars, carbon footprints and environmental catastrophe that reaches us via our wide-screen TVs, many without such luxurious trappings are making a difference.
The irony is that it is “lack” that is fuelling change, and in the week that a report came out suggesting that the …
What can I really say to this, other than: if necessity is the mother of invention, poverty is her sick and twisted evil half-sister.
BEIJING (AFP) - Used condoms are being recycled into hair bands in southern China, threatening to spread sexually-transmittable diseases they were originally meant to prevent, state media reported Tuesday.
In the latest example of potentially harmful Chinese-made products, rubber hair bands have been found in local markets and beauty salons in Dongguan and Guangzhou cities in southern Guangdong province, China Daily newspaper said.”These cheap and colourful rubber bands and hair ties sell well … threatening the health of local people,” it said.
Despite being recycled, the hair bands could still contain bacteria and viruses, it said.
“People could be infected …
Under the influence of Thomas Newman’s haunting theme, something twirls and dances to the whim of the breeze and for a few minutes of movie history a white carrier bag is beautiful…
However, anyone who’s spent any time wandering down any streets in China can tell you that whilst a single carrier bag might be aesthetically pleasing, lots of the damn things blowing around, snagged in tree branches and sticking to your shoes are not.
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Since I came to China I’ve been waging a single-handed battle against a pet-hate of mine: the carrier bag. I’ve decided to share it in the hope that - in true Olympic spirit - others will take up the flaming baton and run with it.
I’ve observed the …
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