Just outside the usually cold and dry city of Beijing, the hosting site for the Olympics posed challenges and opportunities for how humans coexist with nature. Kyle Obermann, Nature Contributor for The China Current, looks into Beijing’s efforts to reduce water waste and go net-zero for the Winter Olympics.
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