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China’s green mining praised by Congo local community

July 24, 2021 CEN_com 0

KINSHASA, July 18 (Xinhua) — In Kolwezi, in southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), beyond counting are drilling rigs and dump trucks coming back and forth on mine after mine. But on the outskirt of this world-class mining hub, one particular mine stands out from the others, with greenery sprawling its mining dumps where a lot of dust are always supposed to be in the air. After years of […]

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Inner Mongolia’s Hohhot China’s most ecologically competitive city

July 24, 2021 CEN_com 0

See special of Hohhot’s ecological progress: http://en.hhhtnews.com/Hohhotgreendevelopment.html Hohhot in Inner Mongolia [Photo/Hohhot news network] Hohhot, capital city of North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, is one of the most ecologically competitive cities in the country, it was announced at the 2021 China Forum on International Ecological Competitiveness held on June 25. Six cities and districts were included on the list: Hohhot, Fengxian district in Shanghai, Huangshan in Anhui province, Tongren […]

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Re-tested blood samples still point to COVID-19 in Italy 2 months before China

July 24, 2021 CEN_com 0

On 4 June 2021, China Environment News (CEN) carried a post on Facebook reporting that the World Health Organization (WHO) had requested re-testing of results where antibodies to COVID-19 were found in blood collected in Italy, October 2019, during a lung-cancer screening trial (see links at end of this article). Those blood samples have now been re-tested by a WHO approved virology laboratory at Erasmus University in the Netherlands – […]

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Program seeks to popularize science among Chinese girls

July 24, 2021 CEN_com 0

China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, All-China Women’s Federation and 11 other governmental departments recently launched a series of measures to encourage women to play a greater role in science and technology innovation. “I’m thrilled to take the opportunity because it’s been my biggest wish to popularize science among students. They can broaden their horizons and hopefully some of them will devote themselves to the field of neuroscience,” Yang says. […]

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China makes headway in rejuvenating population of Chinese alligators

July 21, 2021 CEN_com 0

The National Forestry and Grassland Administration of China announced Friday that the population of the Chinese alligator has effectively increased after years of protection boosted by artificial breeding. The Chinese alligator, also known as the Yangtze Alligator, is classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Chinese alligators were once widely distributed in the Yangtze and Yellow River basins, but have been […]

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Three questions for the U.S. to address regarding furtive Fort Detrick

July 21, 2021 CEN_com 0

By John Lee (ECNS) — More than four million Chinese netizens have signed a joint letter as of 3 p.m. Wednesday, demanding the World Health Organization (WHO) to send virologists, laboratory safety experts and biochemical specialists independent of geopolitics influence of the U.S. to investigate the Fort Detrick biowarfare laboratory. The joint signing points to unanswered questions of wide concern. In July 2019, an unexplained respiratory disease appeared in northern […]

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Fossil fuel electricity peaks as emerging markets leapfrog to renewable energy: report

July 21, 2021 CEN_com 0

Emerging economies are increasingly investing in clean power grids over polluting power plants but many are still reluctant to quit coal. Vietnam is experiencing a solar energy boom Researchers say the amount of electricity generated from burning fossil fuels has likely peaked worldwide as emerging markets invest in clean and cheap renewables over coal, oil and gas. That is the finding of a report published Wednesday by environmental think tanks […]

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China invests in renewable energy in Cuba

July 21, 2021 CEN_com 0

On April 1, 2021, the Cuban News Agency (ACN) reported that the use of renewable energy sources in Cuba during 2020 reached and installed power potential of 297,4 Megawatts, which is expected to increase in tune with a national energy strategy aimed at diversifying energy sources. Cuba began investing in renewable energy in 2014 and is ramping up its efforts in a push to make renewables its principal source of […]

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China builds world’s largest floating solar farm

July 16, 2021 CEN_com 0

A massive civil engineering experiment is underway 150 km south of Shanghai and is causing an international wave in more ways than one. Floating technology could potentially be capable of providing 50% of the world’s ongoing energy needs** the clean and green technology being tested at China’s Hangzhou Fengling Electricity Science Technology Solar Park will also provide jobs and nutritious food from aquaculture for local people. So what are the […]

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The Lancet: Sinovac vaccine 83.5% effective against symptomatic COVID-19

July 15, 2021 CEN_com 0

Two doses of the CoronaVac vaccine developed by Chinese drug maker Sinovac offer 83.5 percent protection against symptomatic COVID-19, according to a new study published in the top medical journal The Lancet on Thursday. A large-scale randomized controlled phase-3 trial of the inactivated vaccine, involving more than 10,000 participants aged 18-59, was conducted in Turkey between September 2020 and January 2021. The participants were given two doses of CoronaVac 14 days apart. […]