XINING, June 30 (Xinhua) — The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world’s highest plateau railway, has stood safety and environmental tests while boosting regional economic growth over the past five years. Friday marks five years since the…
Category: Environment
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A project director for the San Francisco-based ClimateWorks Foundation, Charles R. McElwee II works to promote public policies to prevent dangerous climate change and enhance global prosperity. McElwee, who grew up in…
China has seen another round of heavy rainfalls over the past three days. In Southwest China rain-triggered mudslides have cut off access to a pivotal highway in Sichuan Province, although no casualties have been reported,…
Jiangxi Province’s proposed plan to build a dam at Poyang Lake to “offset the negative impact of the Three Gorges Dam” sounds like a great idea to save the lake, but it may end up…
A bridge that cost 3 million yuan to build is torn down just as it nears completion in Chizhou, Anhui Province. Photo :CFP A costly bridge that was recently torn down in East China’s Anhui…
More than 16,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes Wednesday as torrential rains pelted parts of south Guangdong Province, local flood control authorities said. Heavy rains unleashed by summer monsoons started to pound the…
A company exhibits biodiesel fuel at an expo held in Beijing. From 2011 to 2015, the biotechnology industry is expected to generate 1 million jobs and reduce emissions of the most common pollutants by…
China’s economic planner is mulling policies that would boost the development of seawater desalination facilities in order to supplement the country’s supply of freshwater. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), together with 11 other…
BAODING, China — Solar panels jut out of streetlights in China’s self-proclaimed Clean Energy City. Tiny wind turbines twirl atop public buildings. Schools are due to teach students about “green living.” In the scramble to…
BEIJING – China, the nation worst hit by geological disasters such as earthquakes and landslides, is bracing for even more in the future, the Ministry of Land and Resources warned on Tuesday. “China is facing…