Best of the rest: what we clicked on this week around the web

Every Friday we round-up the links that picked up buzz on the internet. Most of them we also shared throughout the week on Facebook and Twitter.

• Yunnan drought sees 6.31 million people facing water shortages. (China News Service via. Shanghaiist)
  
  
• Celebrities like basketball star Yao Ming help energize China's animal rights movement. (Washington Post)
  
  
• Photos: the strange and wonderful Golden Snub-Nosed Monkeys, from the mountains of Central and South West China. (Project Noah via. National Geographic)
  
  
• China accelerates explorations of the North Pole with two Arctic expeditions. (China Daily)
  
  
• 'Chinese Pompeii': 298-million-year-old forest unearthed in Inner Mongolia. (Shanghaiist)
  
  
• Japan taking another reactor offline, leaving only two of 54 in operation amid public's safety concerns. (China Dialogue)
  
  
• Meausuring China's pollution from space. (Guardian)
  
  
• Sign this petition: Demand Shell stop its plans to put the fragile Arctic and its biodiversity at risk. (Greenpeace New Zealand)

Image: Actor Lucy Lawless joins Greenpeace New Zealand activists in stopping a Shell-contracted drillship from departing the port of Taranaki for the remote Arctic, where its exploratory oil drilling programme threatens to devastate the Alaskan coastline. © Greenpeace

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