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The southwestern province of Sichuan’s massive hydropower industry powers homes and businesses as far away as Shanghai. But even renewables aren’t immune to the challenges of climate change.

One Chinese insurance company estimates at least 100 technicians died on worksites, as demand soared due to heat waves.

New research says that declining numbers due to the changing climate made it difficult for the reptiles to adapt.

States are sometimes overlooked as drivers of climate action, yet some of them have been true leaders that bring significant influence. In Washington

Mine bosses made a fortune from China’s mineral resource boom. For local workers and residents, the benefits were far less clear.

China has developed a biodiesel export industry fed by used cooking oil, but a domestic market remains elusive.

Centuries. by 1910, new york would be home to more than a million jews, more than a quarter of the citys population, for more than any other city on earth. >> the anxieties about urbanization, about unlettered, untutored, relatively uneducated peoples coming in in large numbers, the sense that disease was a problem, all of these worries were amalgamated into a belief that immigrants caused these problems, and thus immigration should be held down. >> reporter: many white protestant americans came...

Also wary of the newcomers. we are americans, and they are not, one rabbi said. they gnaw the bones of past centuries. by 1910, new york would be home to more than 1 million jews. more than a quarter of the citys population. far more than any other city on earth. >> the anxieties about urbanization, about unlettered, untutored, relatively an educated peoples coming in large numbers, the sense that disease was a problem, all of these worries were amalgamated into a belief that immigrants cause th...

Falling tourist numbers following lockdown have resulted in losses for many merchants in the once thriving shopping alleyways.

From Vogue to the Museum of Modern Art, who was the man that changed the way we do urban photography?