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Chinese farmers growing salt-tolerant wheat
Farmers in China have harvested salt-tolerant wheat in fields previously barren Published 2022/06/08 Varieties of salt-tolerant wheat have been specifically designed to grow in saline and alkali soils, as soluble salts such as sodium, calcium affect crops output. Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have designed new cultivars that can grow in saline Continue reading
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Microplastics discovered in frozen remote Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China
The discovery of microplastics on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has led to unexpected revelations and shed light on the global transmission of pollutants. A new study analyzing these tiny particles on the plateau and in other key regions found that microplastics pose a threat even to remote cryospheric (frozen) regions, according to the Northwest Institute of Continue reading
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China to improve national wildlife protection
China will have 75 percent of its wild animals and 80 percent of its wild plants on land under the national key protection system by 2025, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration said. So far, the national key wildlife protection rate has risen to 74 percent, up from 71 percent last year, the administration said. Continue reading
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China’s gigantic wind and solar bases and climate goals
Published 2022/05/23 The following from Carbon Brief is an excellent analysis. Regardless of concerns about China’s coal burning, this shows how fast solar and wind can be built and deployed, a lesson for those in the U.S., who think it’s all fairy dust. It details an acceleration in China’s renewable energy expansion plans, driven in Continue reading
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Massive carbon emissions reduced biodiversity 300 million years ago: study
How might global warming put our planet in jeopardy in the near future? A research group examined the situation 300 million years ago and revealed a scenario with a significant drop in biodiversity. A recent study by a team of scientists from China, the United States and New Zealand published in the Proceedings of the Continue reading
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China approves 6 new nuclear power projects
Six reactors approved for launch in three cities to support clean energy transition With the future power supply growth coming mostly from nonfossil energy in China as the country is going through a green energy transition, nuclear power will be crucial for China to reach its carbon peak goal by 2030, said analysts. After years Continue reading
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Yunnan research discovers fungi that breakdown plastic and rubber waste
Newly discovered fungi in Southwest China are voracious eaters of plastic and rubber. Scientists hope they can provide better ways of recycling plastics. YUNNAN, Southwest China — If you’re looking for a new species of fungus, says Peter Mortimer, there are few better places than southwest China’s Yunnan province. The South African mycologist has been Continue reading
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US hides covid spread in animals
US Government documents show US CDC delayed disclosing likely COVID-19 animal spillover event Thousands of pages of U.S. government documents showed that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had delayed for months publicly disclosing a suspected COVID-19 animal-to-human spillover event in Michigan in late 2020, according to a detailed report by National Continue reading
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Biodiversity protection efforts in China offer lessons for world
By Erik Solheim It’s time that China shared its successful nature conservation stories with the world. In the early days of China’s reform and opening-up in the 1980s and ’90s, China had much to learn from the rest of the world about development and environment. But now the shoe is on the other foot. It’s Continue reading
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China’s Digital Silk Road reaches Mombasa in Kenya, East Africa
China’s information “expressway” connecting China, Europe and Africa have taken a step forward with the arrival of an undersea cable in the Kenyan port of Mombasa. The Pakistan & East Africa Connecting Europe (Peace) cable is part of the Digital Silk Road initiative and will also connect Pakistan, Cyprus, Egypt, France, and Malta. Peace has Continue reading
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Rest in Peace, Zheng Wentai: Ecological restorer dies in Hainan aged 77
Zheng Wentai transformed tens of thousands of acres of barren land into a green paradise in Xionglong, south China’s island province of Hainan. An overseas Chinese returnee who had dedicated his life to ecological restoration, Zheng Wentaidied at the age of 77 on Tuesday, 29 March 2022. Born in Indonesia in 1945, Zheng returned to China Continue reading
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Thousands of endangered Chinese sturgeon released into Yangtze
Agricultural authorities released 5,100 Chinese sturgeon into the Yangtze River in Yichang, Hubei province, on Saturday to restore the fish’s population and improve the river’s ecosystem. Previous releases have also occurred, including in April 2021, when a total of 10,000 captive-bred Chinese sturgeon were released into the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to help Continue reading
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Trends in China’s renewable electricity generation technology: an industry view
Note: This video is shared for its informational content. No promotions or representations for or on behalf of the company are intended. Mr. Luan Guangfu of Chint Solar Zhejiang Company Ltd (CHINT)** gave a speech at an international marketing forum about the current situation and future trends of China’s renewable electricity generation technology. CHINT Solar Continue reading
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Why is the US neglected in the global origins-tracing of COVID-19?
In late December 2019, Wuhan, capital city of the Hubei Province of China, was the first to report a pneumonia never seen before that spread rapidly locally. Before that, an unexplained pneumonia, which is also rare, broke out swiftly in the US. Over the past two years, there have been many different theories and assumptions Continue reading
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Chinese scientists explain how bats facilitate virus transmission
KUNMING, March 14 Chinese researchers have found that an immunosuppressive protein concentrated in the bat salivary glands could help the animal facilitate virus transmission. Bats are increasingly considered potential reservoirs of many viruses that cause zoonotic diseases through spillovers to other animals and humans. However, scientists have a limited understanding of the factors contributing to Continue reading
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China builds photovoltaic green hydrogen plant in Xinjiang
In Dec 2021, the China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec) launched China’s first 10,000-ton photovoltaic green hydrogen plant in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Tuesday, which is expected to produce of 20,000 tons of green hydrogen each year. Sinopec, the largest oil refiner of China, will carry out the world-class project in Kuqa City, Aksu Continue reading
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China starts work on final unit for largest joint China-Russia nuclear energy project
The Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant, in Lianyungang, East China’s Jiangsu Province, is the largest Chinese Russian joint venture ever, and will become the world’s largest nuclear power plant upon completion. A decade in the making, it will help China reduce greenhouse gas emissions and produce cheaper and safe energy. Construction of the No.8 unit of Continue reading
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Five models of peasant engagement in rural environmental protection – rural revitalization in China
Context The Central Document No. 1, released on 22 February proposed promoting green development of rural agriculture and further implementing the five-year action plan to improve the rural living environment by 2025. Participation of the peasants determines the effectiveness of these goals. However, according to Wang Xiaoli and He Jianying, at present, peasants have a Continue reading
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Gut bacteria make panda a chubby bamboo eater: Chinese zoologists’ find
It’s perhaps a sad story for those trying to lose weight. The giant panda stays a rotund figure despite being almost a vegetarian. Now, Chinese zoologists have found out why. The study published on Wednesday in the journal, Cell Reports, revealed that changes in the gut microbiota, the bacteria living in the gut, may play Continue reading
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Wildfires to increase by 50% by 2100: warns UN Environment Programme
Due to climate change and changes in land use, wildfires are predicted to rise by up to 14 percent by 2030, 30 percent by 2050 and 50 percent by the end of the century, according to a report published on Wednesday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and GRID-Arendal. The report, “Spreading like Wildfire: The Continue reading
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China rolls out independently built typhoon-resistant offshore wind turbine
Shared by China-Environment-News.com on Facebook The 13-megawatt typhoon-resistant offshore wind turbine independently developed by Dongfang Electric Corporation rolls off the production line in East China’s Fujian province on Feb 22, 2022. A 13-megawatt typhoon-resistant offshore wind turbine independently developed by Dongfang Electric Corporation rolled off the production line in East China’s Fujian province on Tuesday. The Continue reading
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China outlines tasks to advance rural vitalization in 2022
China unveiled its “No. 1 central document” for 2022 on Tuesday, outlining key tasks to comprehensively push forward rural vitalization this year. As the first policy statement released by China’s central authorities each year, the document is seen as an indicator of policy priorities. Work on agriculture and rural areas has been high on the Continue reading
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‘Seawater rice’ could feed 80 million Chinese
New salt-tolerant rice strains have been developed by Chinese scientists in the hope of ensuring food security that’s been threatened by rising sea levels. Test fields in Tianjin recorded a yield of 4.6 metric tons per acre last year, higher than the national average for production of standard rice varieties. Jinghai district in northern China Continue reading
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Omicron variant: New York City spike also infected wild deer population
China Environment has previously reported that COVID-19 was rife among populations of wild white-tailed deer in the United States and that the virus had established ‘reservoirs’ in the wild deer population. See Corona virus rife in common US deer and Coronavirus infections increase among deer in US, new study shows. Update: Delta variant in imported hampsters Continue reading
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Worst drought in 60 years hits China’s Guangdong province: influenced by climate change
Guangdong province receives plenty of rainfall, but rapid economic growth and climate change are nevertheless causing an emerging problem. In late December last year (2021) the Chinese news outlet Caixin reported that multiple major Guangdong cities had issued warnings to residents that they may face a water shortage as the southern province has been struck Continue reading
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Reducing surface layer ozone pollution could significantly increase wheat yield in East Asia: study
BEIJING, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) — Chinese researchers have discovered that halving the ground level ozone pollution dose could increase wheat yields by more than 20 percent, the Science and Technology Daily reported Thursday. The climbing concentration of surface ozone pollution hinders crop growth and reduces yields, according to the report. The researchers from the Nanjing Continue reading
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The New Vision for Belt and Road
With over 150 countries and international organizations participating in the Belt and Road, the initiative will be built into a more open and innovative one. Compared with nine years ago, when the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was first proposed, the current international landscape has greatly changed with both favorable and unfavorable factors popping up for cooperation Continue reading
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China questions US biowarfare labs
China questions purpose of US bio-warfare labs in 30 overseas countries Published 2022/03/09 According to data published by the U.S., America has 26 bio-labs in Ukraine, which are under absolute control of the U.S. Department of Defense. The United States should receive multilateral check for its biological militarization activities and make a relevant clarification, a Continue reading
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China and Argentina sign nuclear power project deal
Nucleoeléctrica Argentina and China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) have signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract for the development of the Atucha 3 nuclear power plant. World Nuclear News, 2 Feb 2022 reports: “The nuclear power plant, to be sited near Lima, about 100 kilometres north west of Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, will use China’s Continue reading
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World’s largest solar powered Green Hydrogen plant begins operation in China
Operation of the world’s largest solar powered hydrogen plant began on 20 April 2021 in China. The project, owned by Baofeng Energy Group, uses a 200-MW solar power plant located in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to electrolyze water to make “green” hydrogen, which replaces coal. In May 2020 Chinese coal miner Baofeng Energy Continue reading
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Fact-checking Western media reports on Beijing Winter Olympics
With Beijing 2022 approaching, the Western media oligarchies are spreading rumors, speculation and false claims about the green nature of the games, and health and safety. The claims are just more of the politically motivated American racist rubbish typical of the US media oligarchs. Xinhua takes a closer look at the facts reveals that there Continue reading
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Red Panda conservation in China
Red pandas (or lesser pandas) have long, fluffy striped tails like a raccoon, and faces and diets that resemble a giant panda’s, but they clean themselves like a cat. However, they are not raccoons, bears, or cats — they were until recently thought to be the only living species in a genus of their own Continue reading
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COVID-19 may have reached Europe as early as 2019: Norwegian study
[See CGTN: http://www.ecns.cn/…/2022…/detail-ihavfwhh0343767.shtml] New findings by Norwegian researchers show that the novel coronavirus could have arrived in Europe a month earlier than previously thought. This adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting the coronavirus was spreading globally before the first cases in a Wuhan market captured global attention in December 2019. An investigation led the Continue reading
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Glacier retreat accelerates global chemical weathering
Chinese and foreign researchers have evaluated the global chemical weathering rates beneath glaciers for the first time, revealing temporal and spatial variations and influence mechanisms. Chemical weathering, also known as decomposition or decay, is the breakdown of rock by chemical mechanisms, and it usually changes the chemical composition of the rock through carbonation, hydration, hydrolysis Continue reading
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Can the US seriously blame China for climate change?
At UN COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow, the U.S. attempted to displace blame onto China for climate change, which was caused disproportionately by the advanced capitalist powers. While the U.S. media often calls China the biggest carbon emitter, this tends to leave out both per-capita emissions and the fact that these same countries have outsourced Continue reading
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