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Almost half of China's major cities face potentially devastating subsidence, raising the flood risk for tens of millions. A Newsweek map shows the fastest-sinking areas.
Is China facing a demographic crisis? Explore potential population inaccuracies, the One-Child Policy's impact, and ...
Nearly a third of China's urban population lives in areas that are subsiding, according to a sweeping national survey of 82 major Chinese cities. In coastal areas, that makes sea level rise worse.
Nearly half of China's major cities are suffering "moderate to severe" levels of subsidence, putting millions of people at risk of flooding especially as sea levels rise, according to a study of ...
The wave of Covid infections sweeping across China may already have peaked in some of the country’s largest cities, including Shanghai and Beijing, according to a new study.
As heavy rains led to heartbreaking losses at a Texas girls camp, other parts of the state were swamped over the July 4 ...
Towering skyscrapers rise against an eerily silent backdrop, with empty streets and vacant buildings defining China’s infamous ghost cities. These vast urban developments, built with grand ...
China is outpacing U.S. naval shipbuilding posing a security challenge for the Trump administration.
Nearly half of China's major cities are sinking because of water extraction and the increasing weight of their rapid expansion, researchers say.
Chinese property shares rallied after three of the country’s largest cities eased rules for homebuyers, following through on the central government’s latest efforts to prop up the embattled ...
Schoolteacher July Chen became worried last week when the city where she lives, Baoding, in China’s northern Hebei province, suddenly opened up – lifting all pandemic-control lockdowns. After ...