HONG KONG: China will soon strengthen rules for greenhouse gas emissions from commercial vehicles that run on diesel fuel as part of its commitment to reducing air pollution, an industry group said on Tuesday. The…
Category: Environment
JIANGXI Province plans to build a 2,800-meter dam to protect Poyang Lake, the country’s largest freshwater lake, from the impact of the Three Gorges Dam, the Oriental Morning Post reported yesterday. The lake has shrunk…
China has abundant reserves of new energy resources and there is great potential for their larger-scale development Due to the continuous advancement of the country’s new energy technologies, the rising costs of fossil fuels and…
Fishing boats are stranded on grassland, which was once the bed of Poyang Lake- China’s largest fresh water lake, in Jiujiang,East China’s Jiangxi province, on Saturday. Because of a severe drought, the area of Poyang…
While Xu Baoguo strenuously paddled towards shore, he had no idea when he could return to his houseboat on the Honghu Lake, which has almost completely dried up due to a persistent drought. Xu was…
BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhua) — China’s State Forestry Administration (SFA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have jointly established a research center that will focus on epidemic diseases that affect China’s wild animal population,…
The Yellow River Basin is the center of a contest over water, energy, and agriculture. YINCHUAN, China—Even along the middle reaches of the Yellow River, which irrigates 402,000 hectares (993,000 acres) of farmland north of…
Extreme Weather Driving up Food Prices It’s not just gas prices that are skyrocketing – it’s also the cost of food. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s World Food Price Index, which tracks 55 food-commodity…
BEIJING – China’s land watchdog has asked local authorities to strengthen efforts in monitoring potential geological disasters in the Three Gorges Dam region. Until June 10, the Three Gorges Dam plans to increase water discharges…
HONG KONG — For bizarre items floating in the ocean, try topping this: The upper half of a set of false teeth, seen bobbing around in the South China Sea. “I remember thinking: ‘How on…