WASHINGTON — Scientists have come up with a possible explanation for why the rise in Earth’s temperature paused for a bit during the 2000s, one of the hottest decades on record. The answer seems counterintuitive….
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FUZHOU – The country’s top work safety watchdog and China’s health and labor ministries have jointly called for efforts to be stepped up to protect laborers on excessively hot days and ensure they are not…
The scientific research ship Dayang Yihao (Ocean One) began looking for black chimneys in the basin of the East Pacific Ocean on Friday, domestic media reported. After a break in Balboa, Panama last week, Dayang…
SHENZHEN, CHINA — A pioneering electric-taxi project in this city, China’s southern economic powerhouse, seems to be a success by most accounts. Riders are enthusiastic, there have been no accidents and drivers are termed “gracious”…
China has 7.34 million hectares of “reserve land” that can be developed into arable land, the Ministry of Land and Resources said in a research report published Monday. The reserve land mainly lies in dry…
The country’s largest offshore oil and gas producer has strongly denied charges that it attempted to cover up oil spills off the coast of Shandong Province, insisting that the incident is now “under control.” “The…
ConocoPhillips (COP) said an oil leak at the Penglai 19-3 oilfield in China’s Bohai Bay has been contained and clean-up work is close to completion. No injuries nor impact to wildlife, fishing or shipping were reported,…
After giving several false alarms for rainstorms on July 1, the Beijing Meteorological Bureau explained on Sunday that forecasting precipitation comes down to a lot of guesswork. The bureau issued a thunderstorm and lightning warning…
FUZHOU – China’s meteorological authorities issued a warning on Sunday about excessively high temperatures that are expected to hit southern China for the next few days. The mercury is set to hover between 35 and…
BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) — China’s National Meteorological Center (NMC) issued a high temperature alert on Sunday, saying high temps are expected to hit several of the country’s southern regions over the next three days….