The Third Pole is a region in Central Asia with the world’s third-largest store of ice after Antarctica and Greenland that is roughly the size of the US states of Texas and New Mexico combined. Third Pole glaciers are one of the world’s largest freshwater sources, and vital to billions…
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First-ever rain recorded on the summit of Greenland’s ice sheet
It has just rained at the summit of Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time in recorded history, in yet another worrying milestone in our ecological unravelling. Like much of the Northern Hemisphere, Greenland’s been experiencing a massive heatwave with temperatures at the glacier’s summit rising above freezing for the third time in less…
21 Silk Rd 2.0 group shut down again by Facebook oligarchs
Our sister group 21 Silk Rd 2.0 has been closed down by the US regime’s oligarchs at Facebook. The Facebook Gestapo, on the behest of the “Democratic” wing of the US regime, is intensifying attacks on anti-imperialist and pro-China groups like ours (including suspending Admins etc). WE ENCOURAGE ALL MEMBERS…
West’s cumulative emissions of CO2 are 5 times those of China
A fact’s a fact … Cumulative CO2 emissions by Western countries are 5 times those of China China’s cumulative CO2 emissions = 220 billion tonnes (13% of world total cumulative emissions) West’s cumulative CO2 emissions = 1148 billion tonnes (70% of world total cumulative emissions) United States cumulative CO2 emissions = 400…
The West produces double the CO2 of China per capita
A fact’s a fact … The West per capita produces double the CO2 of China Each Chinese citizen produces 6.86 tonnes of CO2 per year. Each citizen in the Western industrialized countries produces 12.1 tonnes per year on average. Canada, USA, & Australia are the worst at 15.59 t; 16.16 t; 16.88…
China, Russia guide new Afghan government’s diplomacy
Beijing and Moscow are working to rehabilitate the Taliban and smooth international acceptance of the new Afghan Government By PEPE ESCOBAR, August 19, 2021 The first Taliban press conference after last weekend’s Saigon moment geopolitical earthquake, conducted by spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, was in itself a game-changer. The contrast could not be starker…
Nearly 500 Yangtze finless porpoises recorded in China’s Poyang lake
NANCHANG, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) — Nearly 500 Yangtze finless porpoises have been detected in Poyang Lake in east China’s Jiangxi Province, according to the results of a recent survey released by the provincial forestry department. The endangered species, known as the “giant panda of the water,” is a barometer of…
The Earth System, the Anthropocene and global tipping points
“Treating ‘humans’ as a single, monolithic whole, ignores the fact that the Great Acceleration has, until very recently, been almost entirely been driven by a small fraction of the human population, those in developed countries.” “The most striking insight is that most of the population growth has been in the…
China is taking a significant step in tackling climate change
On August 9, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a special report. It emphasizes that without “immediate, rapid, and large-scale” reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, it will be impossible to contain global warming and avoid frequent and severe climate events in the coming decades. Many laments the enormous…
Digital farming takes hold in China
Modern Agriculture Platform (MAP) MAP Centers are a network and platform to guide and supply farmers through the process of modernizing their farms sustainably and connecting them to premium buyers – increasing the quality of their crops and their profitability. A key part is MAP beSide: A program that helps…