Firefighters extinguished a blaze that engulfed part of an oil refinery complex in Guangdong Province but caused no explosions at the site, local officials said Monday. No casualties were reported, and an investigation was launched…
Category: Environment
Work to clean up the oil spill at the Penglai oilfield in Bohai Gulf is continuing despite China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and its partner ConocoPhillips China (COPC) claiming Wednesday that the clean-up was…
The Chinese government will speed up the development of clean energy and eco-tourism in its spacious desert areas as part of its battle to find innovative and sustainable ways to fight desertification, a senior official…
Yang Guoding stood motionlessly by his farm, staring at the water running onto his fields from a nearby reservoir. To the 66-year-old farmer and many others living in his village, irrigation water became rare once…
Beachgoers to Qingdao expecting clear blue water will likely be disappointed in two days, as an expanse of green algae is sweeping ashore on the beaches of the coastal tourist destination in east China’s Shandong…
More heavy downpours in Sichuan Province since Monday evening has left two dead and six missing, bringing the rain-caused death toll to eight since June 30, the provincial flood control office said Thursday. Continuous downpours…
The Ministry of Land and Resources said Thursday that it found 23,000 cases of land misuse in the first half of this year. The cases involved 136,000 mu (9,066.7 hectares) of land, including 51,000 mu…
China’s National Meteorological Center (NMC) said on Wednesday that high temperatures will continue to plague the country’s southern regions over the next few days, while rainstorms are expected to sweep southwest China. The center continued…
China’s Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development selected 40 key cities for the public building energy-saving reconstruction project during the 12th Five-Year period, China Securities Journal reported Wednesday. These cities are required to reconstruct no…
The State Oceanic Administration has revealed the results of its initial investigation of the recent oil spill in the Bohai Sea. It says ConocoPhillips China, a subsidiary of the U.S. energy giant ConocoPhillips, “should take…