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COVID lab-leak theory: ‘Rare’ genetic sequence doesn’t mean the virus was engineered

June 27, 2021 CEN_com 0

” … there is no evidence presented in the WSJ piece that scientifically supports the concept of a lab leak of a genetically engineered virus.” Two scientific experts from the University of Leeds, Dr Keith Grehan (postdoctoral researcher on molecular biology) and Dr Natalie Kingston (research fellow on virology) argue that the article written for the US Wall Street Journal is scientifically dubious, and based on speculation unsubstantiated by evidence. […]

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China’s water quality improves in first five months of 2021

June 27, 2021 CEN_com 0

Xinhua27 Jun 2021 China’s water quality improved in the first five months of the year, according to data released by China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment. The data shows that 81.8 percent of surface water was graded Class I to III (good quality) in the January-May period, up 1 percentage point from the same period last year, while the figure for Class V water fell 0.7 percentage points year on […]

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New generation of intelligent high-speed trains put into operation

June 27, 2021 CEN_com 0

Source: Xinhua| 2021-06-26 BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) — China’s new generation of “Fuxing” high-speed trains was put into operation on Friday, offering intelligent operating systems and facilities. The high-speed Electric Multiple Unit (EMU), based on the Fuxing CR400BF EMU, is equipped with technologies and services including intelligent data analysis, a wireless network based on 5G technology, and energy-efficient air conditioning units. With a 12.5-meter locomotive, the new intelligent bullet train has […]

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The Sands of Time: How China tamed a 1,000-plus-year-old sand land in seven decades

June 27, 2021 CEN_com 0

VIDEO link: http://mp42.china.com.cn/video_tide/video/2021/6/18/20216181624005599095_376.mp4 Deadly sands  Shi Guangyin was born into a farmer’s family in Dingbian County, Yulin, Shaanxi Province. The county sits at the conjunction of four provincial-level areas and the southern edge of Maowusu. In the 1950s, 39 percent of the county’s land area was covered by sand, and the overall greenness was only 0.5 percent. Sandstorms hit the area frequently. “We moved nine times in my father’s lifetime […]

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Global vegetation stores a decade of human carbon emissions underground

June 26, 2021 CEN_com 0

The amount of carbon stored below ground by plants is significant from a global perspective. Recent research shows that cold and dry areas, such as the Mongolian plateau, have the highest fractions of plant carbon stored underground. The Mongolian Plateau, comprises the nation of Mongolia and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China, which has been influenced by significant climatic changes and intensive human activities.  Warmer and wetter areas had […]

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Cumulative covid-19 death toll lowest in China, Denmark, Australia, Russia and Norway

June 26, 2021 CEN_com 0

News update Latest data published by New Scientist shows the total deaths from covid-19 – the US death toll continues to be highest in the world, followed in descending order by Brazil, India, Mexico, South Korea, UK, and major EU states. The countries with the lowest death count in descending order were recorded in China, Denmark, Australia, Russia and Norway. This is not cumulative death “rate”, this is cumulative death […]

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Hydro-power station navigation project in Guizhou opens to trial traffic

June 26, 2021 CEN_com 0

The Goupitan Hydropower Station navigation project in Yuqing County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province was opened to trial traffic on Tuesday as a 500-ton ship passed the three-stage ship lift. With a total length of 2,306 meters, it allows 500-ton ships to enter the Yangtze River in Fuling, Chongqing along the route of Guiyang’s Kaiyang Wharf-Goupitan hydropower station. Play video: Click link > http://www.ecns.cn/video/2021-06-25/detail-ihansikz8717111.shtml Source: ECNS, 2021-06-25 

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As China pursues a green future, Bitcoin miners feel the squeeze

June 25, 2021 CEN_com 0

Is Bitcoin an example of the worst excesses of rampant neo-liberalism? Patrick Li’s Bitcoin mine used to be filled with the persistent hum of rows and rows of computers, all busy around the clock solving the complicated mathematical puzzles needed to keep the world’s most popular cryptocurrency operational. Li, 39, had set up shop in the northern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which once welcomed businesses like his to use the […]

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Chinese scientists ‘reinvent’ potatoes to help solve global food crisis

June 25, 2021 CEN_com 0

Chinese scientists have developed a generation of “pure and fertile potato lines” with genome editing technologies in a groundbreaking achievement. The experiment, led by Huang Sanwen, a researcher with the Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen (AGIS) under the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), used genome design to transform potato breeding from a slow, non-accumulative mode into a fast-iterative one. Their study, titled “Genome design of hybrid potato,” was published […]

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China launches EarthLab: first facility exploring Earth system interactions

June 24, 2021 CEN_com 0

Laboratory for the simulation of climate, environmental, ecological, Earth and space weather systems, to predict climate and environment variability, prevent and mitigate natural disasters more effectively. The virtual EarthLab was officially launched on 23 June 2021 in Beijing’s Huairou Science City on Wednesday. In partnership with Tsinghua University, the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) began developing EarthLab in 2018. After trial operations, inspections and […]