China finds new way to recycle plastic

12/07/2023 CEN_net 0

BEIJING — A Chinese research team has developed a new method of recycling polyethylene plastic waste that could cut costs while producing a range of useful petroleum-based materials, according to a paper published recently in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. Polyethylene […]

Nord Stream: China wants UN probe

12/07/2023 CEN_net 0

A Chinese envoy to the United Nations on Tuesday reiterated the call for an objective, impartial and professional investigation into the explosion of the Nord Stream pipelines in September last year. The explosion “not only poses a direct threat to […]

China on Fukushima wastewater: ‘drink it’

12/07/2023 CEN_net 0

UN nuclear watchdog and others who claim Japanese reactor’s wastewater is safe should drink it, a Chinese official has said Beijing has responded to the UN nuclear watchdog’s controversial support for plans by Japan to dump contaminated wastewater from the […]

Warming shocks the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

11/07/2023 CEN_net 0

Climate change is bringing heatwaves and drought, glaciers are melting faster, lakes are expanding and desertification is worsening. July 4, 2023 Editor’s Note: The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, in south-western China, is known as the “roof of the world”. It is home […]

China bans Fukushima produce

08/07/2023 CEN_net 0

China bans food imports from Fukushima, tightens scrutiny of seafood shipments from other parts of Japan Japan’s nuclear regulator granted approval on Friday for utility company Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), which ran the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, […]

Japan ocean discharge threat to all

07/07/2023 CEN_net 0

“The Fukushima accident is considered already as the largest manmade release of radioactive material into the ocean …. In Fukushima nuclear wastewater, tritium is not the only radionuclide of great concern. … Nuclear waste water contained other radioactive materials apart from tritium, […]

Protecting grasslands – China leads world

06/07/2023 CEN_net 0

China’s grassland ecological compensation policy improves grassland quality and increases herders’ income The grasslands of China are a vital ecological and social-economic resource, covering 40% of the national area and serving as an ecological barrier in the north and northwest […]

Ancient China green seaweed micro-fossils

05/07/2023 CEN_net 0

Paleontologists have made a remarkable discovery in China -one billion-year-old micro-fossils of green seaweeds that could be related to the ancestor of the earliest land plants and trees that first developed 450 million years ago. A team of scientists from […]

China: Protecting grassland biodiversity

04/07/2023 CEN_net 0

Pastures green China boasts some 400 million hectares of grassland, accounting for 42% of China’s total land area, making it the second-largest terrestrial carbon sink after forests in the country.Grasslands are distributed mainly in the temperate regions and the Qinghai-Tibetan […]

BRICS Summit 2023: Key Goals

02/07/2023 CEN_net 0

AFRICAN LEADERS CALL FOR NEW GLOBAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE On 22-23 June 2023 the UN Summit for a New Global Financial Pact was hosted by the French Government in Paris. The summit was attended by over 100 world leaders, including African leaders, China’s […]