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People walk through floodwaters along a street in Zhengzhou in central China's Henan Province, Tuesday, July 20, 2021
CHINA’S military blasted a dam to release floodwaters threatening one of its most heavily populated provinces as the death toll rose to at least 25.
The dam operation in the city of Luoyang on Tuesday night took place as severe floods overwhelmed the Henan provincial capital of Zhengzhou, trapping residents in the metro and stranding them at schools, apartments and offices.
Another seven people were reported missing, provincial officials said.
Coal-fired stoves in traditional homes are the primary source of extreme levels of air pollution in over-crowded Ulaanbaatar. As more people become climate-displaced, the situation is likely to worsen, write SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
