The shortage of electricity in China at present is mainly caused by three factors. The industrial demand for electricity is increasing fast. The price of coal has soared. And local governments are trying to fulfill their emissions cut quotas. By the end of September, the price of thermal coal had increased about twofold compared with the same period last year, exhausting the interest margin of the power plant operators as […]
American failure to address previous nuclear contamination from its military activity does not lend credibility to Biden’s or Morrison’s rhetoric. Addressing the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly of the UN, Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, said as his country is a party to the 1985 the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty he would like to keep the region nuclear free and put the region’s nuclear legacy […]
80-100 gigawatts of wind, solar power to be installed annually in China Photo taken on Oct. 23, 2019 shows the Nanfeng wind power field in Hami, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge) Amid public concerns over the current electricity rationing and power shortages in some provinces in China, the National Energy Administration (NEA) has issued management guidance for the new energy industry. Analysts said the guidance will boost […]
This October, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) will celebrate its 72nd founding anniversary. From 1949 to 2021, China has seen rapid development not only in economy and technology but also in ecological restoration. Many rare species were successfully saved from the threat of extinction. Dubbed “China’s National Treasure,” the giant panda is one of the most famous species that has been saved from the edge of extinction. The population […]
An extract from an article published in the Monthly Review Today the moment of truth looms large. We currently reside within a “Great Climacteric”—first identified in the 1980s by geographers Ian Burton and Robert Kates—a long period of crisis and transition in which human society will either generate a stable relation to the Earth System or will experience a civilizational collapse, as part of a great die-down of life on […]
The Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, in June 1972, was the first major United Nations event featuring the People’s Republic of China. It helped shape the country’s understanding of environmental issues ever since. In 2022, China was set to host a major UN environmental conference, after a delay of more than a year due to Covid-19. The 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD […]
Editor’s note: During the 2021 Zhongguancun Forum, which is held in Beijing from September 24 to 28, 2021, CGTN spoke to China President of Springer Nature Niels Peter Thomas to discuss how Chinese scientific research has become more pronounced on the world stage over the past two decades. Springer Nature is a leading research, educational and professional publisher, which owns high-profile scientific journal Nature. Beijing tops the Nature Index 2021 Science […]
Daishan No.4 Wind Farm in in Zhoushan City, east China’s Zhejiang Province. /China General Nuclear Power Corporation Among China’s arduous efforts to honor its commitment to peaking carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, developing offshore wind power, one of the key technologies to meet the goals, is of great significance. According to a report released by the Global Wind Energy Council on Thursday, China […]
Chinese researchers have found that microbial diversity is crucial for ecological balance and stability in arid and extreme arid regions, according to a recent research article published in the journal Nature Communications. The relative importance of plant and soil microbial diversity for ecosystem multifunctionality varies along environmental gradients. The researchers from the School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University in northwest China’s Gansu Province, have studied multiple soil function traits across […]
Beijing demands the overseas companies obey the local government, after protests outside a Chinese mine that had ignored local orders – after Congolese authorities suspended six small Chinese firms’ operations over illegal mining and destruction of the environment. The Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC) has more than half of the world’s known reserves of cobalt ore, and with the Zambian copper belts, the second largest global reserve of copper, […]
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