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China’s Lenovo offers opportunities for volunteers to work from a remote island while helping environmental projects

December 7, 2021 CEN_com 0

Chinese tech brand Lenovo is launching the “Work for Humankind” project, in partnership with the NGO, Island Conservation, at a large UNESCO ecological reserve which is part of the Juan Fernandez archipelago, 600 km off the coast of Chile. SANTIAGO, Dec 7 — A paradisiacal island located off the coast of Chile is ready to welcome remote workers from all over the world. These individuals will need to be environmentally […]

Fukushima radiation to affect entire Pacific Ocean in 10 years

December 4, 2021 CEN_com 0

Chinese scientists from Tsinghua University have mapped out the potential global effects of Fukushima radioactive discharge, suggesting that if the contaminated water is discharged to the ocean, it is expected to sprawl across the entire Pacific Ocean within 10 years. The Japanese government announced in April that it would start dumping contaminated water from around the spring of 2023. China and other countries have expressed serious concerns about Japan’s decision to discharge […]

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China’s production of ‘green hydrogen’ from offshore wind to help Japan’s net-zero transition

December 3, 2021 CEN_com 0

Japan’s Green Growth Strategy signals a commitment to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 – and hydrogen produced from renewable energy can play an important role in this shift. A team of researchers from Shandong University, China University of Petroleum Beijing and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Harvard University in the US, have explored the possibility of producing hydrogen by electrolysis using power generated from offshore wind in […]

History of mathematics is being revised to be fair to Han contributions

August 30, 2021 CEN_com 0

It’s becoming increasingly clear that many key developments in the history of mathematics were made in China, centuries or millennia before they were found by Europeans. The puzzle over how China suddenly became a global leader in Artificial Intelligence has a simple, widely overlooked answer: mathematics. AI and other Big Data handling techniques are rooted in processes developed thousands of years ago by Chinese scholars. Numeracy has always remained high […]

China now leads the world in natural science papers

June 21, 2021 CEN_com 0

The attached Japanese news report from August 2020 shows that China had surpassed the US as the world’s leading producer of natural science papers. In June 2021 China Environment News reported that over the past 5 years China led the world in the number of research papers published on technologies related to the global decarbonization and away from greenhouse gases. China has overtaken the United States for the first time […]