As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes

By JOSEPH KAHN and JIM YARDLEY Published: August 26, 2007 on New York Times
China’s industrial growth depends on coal, plentiful but polluting, from mines like this one in Shenmu, Shaanxi Province, behind a village store. No country in history has emerged as a major industrial power without creating a legacy of environmental damage that can take decades and big dollops of public wealth to undo. Read More from New York Times