Cross-post: Olympic Skies

In the Hutong 
Playing with my new iPod Touch 
1420 hrs.

Over at The New York Times, Jim Yardley, Joseph Kahn, Keith Bradsher, and David Barboza are ten articles into a periodic series entitled "Choking on Growth," covering how China is responding to its environmental challenges. The most recent is Jim's piece dealing with the challenges of cleaning up Beijing's air for the Olympics and beyond. The real challenge, Yardley notes, is the long-term problem.

Read the full series, including:

• The superb if depressing overview article;

• Jim's look at China's silent and immense water supply problem;

• Joseph Kahn's excellent coverage of the saga of Lake Tai's green algae bloom;

• A hard look at the human costs of China's hydroelectric dam projects;

• The fate of centrally-dictated energy conservation policies;

• A case study of the challenges of wildlife protection in China;

• The role of trucks as culprits in the nation's environmental challenges;

• An issue of food safety emerges as China's fish farming goes industrial in scale; and

• The environmental effects of China's go-west effort.