Energy & Climate Change~

China will moderately reduce the proportion of artificial forests and enhance the conservation and restoration of its degraded forests China’s efforts to implement afforestation and environmental schemes in recent years have met with considerable success, a fact reflected in the large increase in forest coverage nationwide.  However, the country is now switching from the emphasis on quantity-based greening to a more balanced approach, giving greater weight to the factor of […]

In 2018, Shi Danyang, a student at Duke Kunshan University in east China’s Jiangsu Province, saw a tiny warbler with greenish feather majestically flying toward the glass window of her three-storied school building.  But instead of maneuvering, the bird hit the glass, making a gentle thumping sound and leaving behind a tiny mark on the window. Shocked by the bird’s poor navigation capabilities, she later learned that the warbler’s dead […]

SICHUAN, Southwest China April 19th to May 27th 2021 101 bears were relocated from a former bile farm in Nanning, Guangxi province, to the Chengdu Bear Rescue Center in Sichuan province. China lists the Asian black bear as a Class II protected species, meaning it’s illegal to hunt, kill, or sell them. However, the population of wild Asian black bears, which are native to forests across southern and eastern China, has fallen due to illegal hunting and habitat loss, according […]

China is turning barren lands and mountains into productive lands or green forest. This is the result of the country’s intensified efforts of green development in which they turn deserts or unproductive lands into something very productive in the long run. Watch the video.

Baihetan Hydropower Station, the world’s second largest after the Three Gorges Dam, is expected to have its last reservoir completed on Monday in Southwest China.  The station, with a total installed capacity of 16 million kilowatts, is expected to generate more than 62 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, which would reduce carbon dioxide emission by about 51.6 million tons, according to experts.  The Baihetan station is located downstream of […]