China’s Yunnan sees progress in protecting plant species with extremely small populations Does a plant still have value for conservation if there are only a few found surviving in the wild? For botanists, the answer is definitely yes. In southwest China’s Yunnan province, they seek and protect rare plant species in the wild, introduce and breed the species and then return them to nature. Thanks to more than 10 years […]
China Biodiversity: Over 460 newborn Milu Deer born in Hubei Milu deer (Elaphurus davidianus) is listed as Class I National Key Protected Species of China. The species is Classified as Extinct in the Wild by the IUCN’s Red List. It is said to have became extinct a long time ago, perhaps 1800 years ago, and was for a long time preserved by the Chinese Emperor in his Imperial Hunting Park […]
Massive ocean currents, such as the gulf stream, move heat from one part of the planet to the other. This process, in part, helps to give Western Europe its mild winter climate. Cimate change is already having a visible effect on the world’s temperatures and scientists are starting to build a clearer picture of what happens when certain climate components near their tipping point. Explaining the situation for the science […]
Understanding the difference between the two What is the difference between ecosystem functions and ecosystem services? This brief article describes the difference between these two often confused terms in environmental science and management. It aims to integrate and clarify the many definitions and viewpoints of ecosystem functions and ecosystem services currently available online. Ecosystem Definition “An ecosystem is defined as a community of lifeforms in concurrence with non-living components, interacting with […]
BEIJING — A Chinese research team has developed a new method of recycling polyethylene plastic waste that could cut costs while producing a range of useful petroleum-based materials, according to a paper published recently in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. Polyethylene plastic, which is one of the five main types of plastic, is highly stable and does not biodegrade easily. However, the research team from the University of Science and Technology […]
Climate change is bringing heatwaves and drought, glaciers are melting faster, lakes are expanding and desertification is worsening. July 4, 2023 Editor’s Note: The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, in south-western China, is known as the “roof of the world”. It is home to more mountain glaciers than anywhere else on the planet and is the source of some of Asia’s most important rivers. It also plays an important role in, and is […]
BRICS Health and Pharmaceutical Association of Africa has been launched in South Africa to help the African continent improve its health systems and be prepared for future pandemics. The initiative seeks to tap into research and development and advanced technology from BRICS countries and use it in Africa to address the burden of diseases, according to Hilton Klein, chairperson and CEO of the Numolux Group, which launched the association last […]
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 […]
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 […]
Copyright © 2024 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes