BEIJING – Huang Xiaoshan, an environmental activist, has decided to invest in and open a garbage sorting station that he will call “the green house”. And helping him in that endeavor will be the local…
Category: Environment
BEIJING – Oil from a huge spill off China’s coast has been found ashore in two separate areas, authorities said on Wednesday, sparking calls for greater transparency about the disaster. Environmental protection organizations have warned…
Nowadays, we have satellites, radars and other unmanned devices across the country collecting data for weather prediction. But you’d be wrong if you thought the job of a weather forecaster is just pointing at a…
The United Nations and China have opened a third sustainable tourism observatory in the world’s most populous country to monitor the environmental and socio-economic impacts of tourism. The Zhangjiajie Observatory, located in Hunan province, will…
A rainstorm caused chaos in Beijing on June 23 paralyzing the city’s traffic and turning the city’s underpasses into treacherous hazards for drivers. In the wake of the torrential rains that have hit the city…
China will introduce a pilot scheme for carbon emissions trading and gradually develop a national market as the world’s largest polluter seeks to reduce emissions and save energy, state media said. China will promote the…
Ecotourism has been part of household vocabularies in China for years. However, one expert believes that the concept still has a long way to go in China, as most domestic tourists are more interested in…
BEIJING – China should provide more policy support for the construction of a “green” economy, a Chinese expert said at a UN press conference held in Beijing on Friday afternoon. Experts and scholars were invited…
For centuries, when boys turned 17 in Nyingchi prefecture, the Tibet autonomous region, they were asked to cut down a giant spruce tree to prove their manhood. Dawa, a 40-year-old Nyingchi resident, said the murky…
China, the world’s second largest economy, is stepping up its efforts to achieve “ecological civilization,” officials and experts said at a world eco-forum that ended Sunday. Altogether 14 Chinese provinces are striving to build themselves…