The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Lake Tai, the third largest freshwater lake in China. The lake, also known as Lake Taihu, is located in the Jiangsu province and is approximately 70 ...

Sept. 6 marked the first day of the fishing season for Lake Tai’s net fishers, or seiners. For many members of this insular community, it may end up being the last fishing season they’ll ever see.

From AFP, via The Standard: Authorities in a major mainland city issued emergency orders Thursday to stem panic water-buying after heavy pollution in a lake contaminated drinking supplies for millions ...

Standing on a concrete embankment overlooking a fetid, floating array of plastic bottles, foam takeout containers, flip-flops and the occasional dead fish, Wu Lihong (吳立紅), the lake’s unofficial ...

A year after an outbreak of blue-green algae in Jiangsu Province's Lake Tai caused a drinking water crisis in the nearby city of Wuxi, the pollutant algae has returned even earlier than last year, ...

Three years ago, after an algal bloom in nearby Tai Lake forced the affluent city of Wuxi, Jiangsu province, to cut water supplies to its two million residents, the humiliated city and provincial ...

About 12,000 tonnes of rubbish dumped on the edge of Lake Tai continues to pose a contamination risk to drinking water in Suzhou, but local authorities and residents still can’t agree on exactly what ...

The Wall Street Journal’s Real Time China blog reports that environmental activist Wu Lihong is out of jail and back to his work raising awareness of the pollution in Lake Tai: Mr. Wu’s biggest crime ...