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, to start the country’s controversial plan to dump a million tons of nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean. On the same day, China, which has expressed its firm opposition to the […]
“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, such as Ruthenium 106, Cobolt 60 and Strontium 90. Although the concentration of these isotopes is lower than that of tritium, they are more easily incorporated into marine life and […]
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 border of China. The grasslands have multiple functions, including adjusting climate, preserving water resources, fixing carbon and releasing oxygen, and mitigating wind and sand dusts – for the big northern […]
Chinese BRI investments in Russian Far East reached US$1.6 billion in 2022, China trade up 31% Western analysts often state that China’s Belt and Road investments into Russia have effectively stalled following the Ukraine conflict, however they miss the bilateral subtleties. In fact, Chinese investment into Khabarovsk Krai (Province) in Russia’s Far east reached US$1.6 billion in 2022, according to the regional Governor, Mikhail Degtyarev. According to Degtyarev, 26 new […]
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 the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology in China and the Department of Geosciences and Global Change, Virginia Tech College of Science in the USA carried out the research, which […]
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 Plateau. Human activities and climate change have adversely impacted 90% of the country’s grassland areas, which support a range of ecological services. the livelihoods of millions of people and are […]
China’s first photovoltaic green hydrogen plant with an annual capacity of over 10,000 tonnes started production in Kuqa, signaling a major technical breakthrough in green transition in the country’s energy sector. Hydrogen can be produced from various sources of energy such as coal, natural gas and renewable energy through power generation. Green hydrogen is called “green” thanks to its origin of renewable energy such as wind and photovoltaic power. Green […]
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 prime minister and Brazil’s president, with the goal of boosting crisis financing for low-income countries, reform of post-war financial systems and freeing up funds to tackle climate change. Kenya’s President […]
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