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China vowed on Monday to strengthen research and development into cutting-edge and disruptive technologies in the transport sector, and carry out studies of new types of vehicles such as ultra-high-speed trains and commercial airplanes. The plan was put forward in a guideline issued jointly by the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Science and Technology, in a bid to accelerate the construction of transport systems using scientific and technological […]

Shared by The Red Enviromentalist to China Environment on FB from Nature, 10 Sept 2021. Original Nature article shared here. If China’s experimental reactor is a success it could lead to commercialization and help the nation (and the world) meet its climate goals. Scientists are excited about an experimental nuclear reactor using thorium as fuel, which is about to begin tests in China. Although this radioactive element has been trialled […]

Chinese researchers say they have made “breakthrough” findings of the behavior of rare snow leopards after months of tracking them in northwest China using satellite technology. After gaining prior approval from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, the Qilian Mountain National Nature Reserve together with the Wildlife Research Institute of Beijing Forestry University launched satellite tracking of snow leopards for the first time, starting from early this year. The researchers […]

Pioneering Discoveries for a Cleaner Planet – Professor Akira Fujishima Japanese mainstream media “Mainichi Shimbun” on September 2 reported that a leading figure in the field of “photocatalysis”, Japanese scientist Professor Akira Fujishima, had led his research team to join full-time the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. Professor Fujishima has been nominated for several Nobel Prizes, and is a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Fujishima […]

The Hainan gibbon is the most endangered of all gibbons and the world’s rarest primate. It is endemic to the southern Chinese island of Hainan. Its population has increased from as few as 7 to 9 in the 1980s to 35 today, according to a report released at the WCC held both online and in-person in Marseille, France. The conservation of Hainan gibbons in China is a success for biodiversity […]

Up to 95 percent of Earth’s ocean surface will have changed by the end of the century – oceans will be hotter, more acidic and less hospitable to life unless humanity reins in its carbon emissions, according to research published Thursday.  Ocean surface climates, defined by surface water temperature, acidity and the concentration of the mineral aragonite, which many marine animals use to form bones and shell, support the vast […]

“China 65,000 electric vehicle charging stations, 644 power swap stations, and 1.87 million charging piles had been built nationwide, covering 176 cities and more than 50,000 km of highways.” “Not only has China’s interim goal of 5 million EVs been met, but the country has cultivated the world’s largest plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market. In 2020, nearly half of the world’s plug-in electric car production and 90% of heavy-duty electric […]

Chinese scientists recently created the country’s first global carbon flux dataset based on data collected by the country’s first carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring satellite TanSat. The achievement means that China is capable of conducting the quantitative spatial monitoring of the global carbon budget and helping take an inventory of the carbon budgets around the world. More importantly, the capability bears great significance for the country’s goal to peak carbon dioxide […]