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Environmental noise affects mate choice in animals: Chinese study

August 16, 2022 CEN_com 0

Chinese researchers have discovered that noise influences mate choice based on visual information in animals via cross-sensory interference, according to the Chengdu Institute of Biology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Animal communication is often hampered by noise interference, while little is known about its cross-modal effect and how animals weigh unimodal and multimodal courtship cues in noisy environments. Using tree frogs as experimental objects, researchers from the institute presented […]

China commissions first phase of 200 MW ‘vanadium flow battery’ – scale dwarfs anything else in the world

August 12, 2022 CEN_com 0

Energy Storage News reports that China has commissioned a 100MW/400MWh vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) energy storage system in Dalian City’s Shahekou District, which is in Liaoning Province in northeastern China. A vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) is a type of rechargeable flow battery is a type of electrochemical cell where chemical energy is provided by two chemical components dissolved in liquids, that are pumped through the system on separate sides of a membrane. Because of their relative bulkiness, […]

BRI projects bring significant benefits Papua New Guinea

August 12, 2022 CEN_com 0

BRI boosts local living standard, creates jobs, and nurtures skills in PNG Papua New Guinea was the first country in the South Pacific to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on the construction of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Projects undertaken by Chinese enterprises under the BRI have led to fruitful benefits for local people – higher living standards, more jobs and skilled training. China and PNG signed the […]

China vows to honor commitments on climate change – says US must stop finding excuses for its own inaction

August 11, 2022 CEN_com 0

China reiterates commitment to international cooperation on climate change and will honor the promises it has made China refutes U.S. claim that the suspension of climate talks “punishing the whole world Washington can’t speak for world US must stop finding excuses for its inaction on climate change China remains committed to international cooperation on climate change and honors the promises it has made, the top Chinese envoy in Washington said […]

Facebook’s Ukraine “fact-checking” directly funded by Washington regime

August 9, 2022 CEN_com 0

Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government, either through the U.S. Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED). In light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an information war as bitter as the ground fighting has erupted, and Meta (Facebook’s official name) announced it had partnered with nine organizations to help it sort fact […]

Nancy Pelosi — Janus of the West

August 9, 2022 CEN_com 0

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus presided over war and peace and was usually depicted as having two faces. The gates of a building in Rome named after him – an open enclosure with gates at each end – were opened in time of war. The following article was first published by Anthony M Leong on Medium, and is republished by China Environment Net with the permission of the author. It is said […]

Latin America welcomes BRI cooperation, not ideological confrontation

August 9, 2022 CEN_com 0

The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has made steady progress in Latin America during the past three years, which has brought concrete benefits to partner economies with its people centered approach. The growing influence of BRI in Latin America, while the US-led counterweight initiative Growth in the Americas achieved little, showed cooperation and inclusiveness have outmatched confrontation and divisiveness in the region. Global Times on June 08, 2022 reported […]

Latin America welcomes BRI cooperation

August 9, 2022 CEN_com 0

Latin America welcomes BRI cooperation, not ideological confrontation 9 AUGUST 2022 The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has made steady progress in Latin America during the past three years, which has brought concrete benefits to partner economies with its people centered approach. The growing influence of BRI in Latin America, while the US-led counterweight initiative Growth in the Americas achieved little, showed cooperation and inclusiveness have outmatched confrontation and divisiveness in […]

Our Editorial Perspective 

August 8, 2022 CEN_com 0

Ecological civilization “Global environmental crisis is the product of centuries of Western exploitation of the land, natural resources and labour of the Global South, including the colonized Indigenous Peoples. Seriously tackling the global ecological crisis must involve a global redistribution of power and wealth from the collective West to the Global South. We make no apologies in unequivocally acknowledging that as China has demonstrated, for each country this will require a nationally appropriate […]

Belt and Road – Going Green

August 8, 2022 CEN_com 0

China has responded to calls for a more sustainable BRI. As the developing world strives to meet the Paris Agreement target to limit global warming to below 2 degrees C, there is growing pressure on China to play its part in curbing greenhouse gas emissions. This pressure will only grow as China emerges more decisively as the defacto leader of the Global South and many European Union countries such as […]