Plants growing at the bottom of sinkholes in China’s Dashiwei Tiankeng Group have adapted for harsh life underground. They don’t take up as much carbon as surface plants do, but they have much higher levels of nutrients in their tissues. […]
Malaysian media outlet The Star reports that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has confirmed Malaysia submitted an application to Russia to join the BRICS intergovernmental organisation. In a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office, Anwar said Malaysia’s desire to join […]
China has challenged the US Inflation Reduction Act’s EV tax subsidies and four tax credits related to renewable energy – it said the law violates World Trade Organization rules as its regional production requirements artificially sets trade barriers which push […]
What did China’s 3rd Plenum Resolution say about Ecological Civilization? China Ecological Civilization newsletter regularly reports on Chinese government documents with importance to ecological civilization. Its latest report is on the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of […]
” tens of thousands of scientific and engineering journals are omitted by Western university ranking systems, especially those not written in the English language.” The Leiden University Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) has posted new university rankings that […]
The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology’s official news site, Science and Technology Daily, recently published an article “Who was finally trapped by the ‘small yard, high fence’?” The article referred to a strategy adopted by the US to restrict […]
A rooftop solar project in China suggests community emissions-reduction work must benefit everybody to succeed. China’s housing regulations are such that the roof of an apartment block is communally owned by all residents. That means there must be unanimous agreement to install […]
Seven years seems a lifetime in politics. In 2017, President Donald Trump announced the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement. It prompted Canada, China and the European Union to convene an urgent meeting to reaffirm political commitment to global climate action. The successful […]
Xinhua (2024-07-26) reported that five nominated sites of the migratory bird sanctuaries along the coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China successfully passed the review process Friday to be included on the World Heritage List by the United Nations Educational, Scientific […]
China plans to start building the world’s first molten salt reactor power station next year in the Gobi Desert. Currently, China operates the only thorium reactor on Earth, located in the Gobi Desert around 120km northwest of the city of Wuwei, Gansu […]
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