10/03/2017

通往滴水泉的路

李娟以细腻的笔触道尽了新疆阿勒泰戈壁滩里人与沙漠的百年纠葛。

Fiction: The Road to the Weeping Spring

Award-winning Xinjiang writer Li Juan's short story about the remote Altay region's changing landscape and the Kazakh nomads who inhabit it

01/03/2017

1952，伦敦呼吸之痛

到底是什么令1.6万人丧生于一场大雾？学者彼得·托尔谢姆为我们复盘了65年前的伦敦烟雾事件。

The truth about London’s killer fog

The 1952 fog killed thousands but catalysed action to clean up London’s dirty air, writes Peter Thorsheim

31/01/2017

车轮上的乡愁与乌托邦

自行车曾是社会主义中国现代化、工业化的符号象征。现在，共享单车正在为这一符号注入新的含义。

Nostalgia and utopia on two wheels

Bicycles, once a symbol of modernisation, are taking on new meaning in China, writes Tang Damin

25/01/2017

如果你是一头大象……

拥有超乎人类理解范围的敏锐感官、清晰的“自我”意识、严格的母系社会……大象的世界看起来比人类的精彩得多！《化身为兽》的作者写道。

If you were an elephant…

…the world would be a brighter, smellier, noisier place, and you would be a better, wiser, kinder person. The author of Being a Beast explains all

13/01/2017

“美好生活”理念能否改变主流环境观？

大卫·汉弗莱斯表示，大自然享有权利这一理念正在渐渐改变各国政府的环境观，但把理念转化为实践并不容易。

Buen vivir: Can the ‘good life’ deliver environmental harmony?

Nations are coming round to the idea that nature has rights but implementation is proving challenging, writes David Humphreys

23/12/2016

在洪水到来之前，我们必须走下道德高地

作为一部助选意味浓厚的气候变化纪录片，《洪水到来之前》缺乏足够的道德力量。

DiCaprio’s climate documentary is bold but unconvincing

The documentary film has a strong climate change message but it may be too broad to influence people, writes Tang Damin

17/11/2016

山河之间：清朝边疆地区的环境、帝国和身份认同

历史学家贝杜维的新书从一个鲜为人知的角度揭示，人与动物的关系怎样影响了中国边疆地区的历史进程。

Book: Across Forest, Steppe and Mountain: Environment, Identity and Empire in Qing China’s Borderlands

How the history of animal-human relations in the Qing dynasty shaped modern China’s borders and diverse sense of identity

10/11/2016

自然现代化：探询黄河三角洲自然保护区的历史

透过对黄河三角洲曲折历史的梳理，环境史学者侯深剖析了中国当代历史演化中，对现代化不同层面的追求与自然保护间的复杂张力。

Nature modernized: Birds and people in China’s Yellow River Delta Reserve

The nature reserve is a testing ground for competing ideas of economic development, nature and conservation, writes Hou Shen

25/10/2016

新书访谈：后“中国热”时代，中拉合作渐趋稳健

中拉关系专家玛格丽特·迈尔斯在新书表示，尽管依然存在问题，但中国与拉丁美洲国家的合作正日趋理性和稳健。

Book: China’s Latin America partners are engaging on new terms

China-Latin America expert Margaret Myers talks about her new book on how China is changing its approach across the continent

07/10/2016

皮草装点的世界：清王朝治之下的野生生物、原始地带以及自然边缘

清王朝平定边疆使得自然资源遭到了史无前例的争抢，但同时也奠定了现代自然保护的基础，乔纳森·施莱辛格写道。

A world trimmed with fur: wild things, pristine places, and the natural fringes of Qing rule

China’s conquest of its borderlands under the Qing Empire led to an unprecedented rush for resources but also laid the roots for modern conservation, writes Jonathan Schlesinger