Environmental Soil Science

20 Aug 2012

A drastic reduction in the city's projected population has led to calls for the government to scale back plans for more land reclamation and overhaul its strategy for building up a land bank.

10:43AM

An ear to the ground

5 Aug 2012

Just before 1am on Tuesday, July 24, as hurricane-force winds from Typhoon Vicente cut a swathe of destruction through Hong Kong, Chan Yun-cheung's mobile phone rang.

11:03PM

City's secret weapon in landslide prevention

5 Aug 2012

One of the city's foremost experts on landslides says hundreds of lives have been saved since a special government office was set up to manage Hong Kong's hilly terrains, which become treacherous...

11:03PM

Landslide danger shifts with rise in rural homes

5 Aug 2012

The encroachment of urban Hong Kong deeper into rural areas has forced a strategy rethink by the billion-dollar-a-year government department whose job it is to keep the city safe from landslides...

11:03PM

'We didn't reclaim in cement test'

26 May 2012

Working underneath the seabed does not constitute reclamation, the Airport Authority said yesterday in defence of its decision to carry out a trial project for the proposed third runway without...

3:49PM

Reclamation advantages spelled out at forum

12 Feb 2012

Land reclamation is not all bad if there is careful planning with the livelihoods of Hongkongers as the top priority, a public forum held by the government heard yesterday.

7:16AM

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

5:24AM

George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

Updated 7:12AM

There's no need for land reclamation

A government's job is as much to look to the future as the present. Donald Tsang Yam-kuen's outgoing administration is doing that with its consultation on land supply.

6:20AM

Reclamation angers fishermen

A representative of Hong Kong's fishing industry yesterday vented his anger at government plans for land reclamation, saying they ignored the possible damage to fishermen's livelihoods.

4:54AM

Creating islands no answer to lack of land, critics say

Building artificial islands for housing off the coasts of Hong Kong would be a major waste of resources and could threaten marine life, several experts said.

4:38AM

Landslip hits path in King's Park Garden

An investigation is under way into a landslip that left sand, mud and debris covering a popular walking path in King's Park Garden, Yau Ma Tei, yesterday.

7:08AM

Too little, too late for country's largest wetland?

China's largest wetland, the Sanjiang plain, is now just a fifth of the size it was 60 years ago, with more than 43,000 square kilometres lost to reclamation since the founding of the People's...

7:05AM

We need new thinking on our land supply

The dream of one day owning one's home is universal. Responsible governments do their best to make it a reality; a happy, stable and productive society is built on the foundation of people having...

11:32AM