BEIJING / JINAN – East China’s Shandong province is about to launch a licensing system in an attempt to limit the availability of pesticides, because misuse of the agricultural chemicals is a major cause of…
Category: Environment
BEIJING – The country’s environment watchdog has ordered the operation of one high-speed railway to stop and halted construction on a second over violations of environmental laws. The Ministry of Environmental Protection posted a notice…
The remains of a turtle lie on the dried riverbed of the Wuhan section of the Han River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, in Hubei Province. Photo: CFP The central government has for the…
In this photo taken on Thursday, June 23, 2005, Guhonda, a male adult mountain gorilla, in the Volcanos National Park in Rwanda.Gorillas in central Africa are in danger from illegal logging, mining and from hunters…
BEIJING – China said on Wednesday that the Three Gorges Project, the world’s biggest hydropower complex, had affected shipping, irrigation and water supply downstream on the Yangtze River. The disclosure came after the State Council…
A farmer on his dried field last week in Wuhan, China. Crops and drinking water have been threatened by a long drought. BEIJING — A severe drought along the Yangtze River region in central China…
In this April 29, 2011 photo, part of the Yangtze River’s river bed is exposed as water level lowered by drought, in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality. Much of central China is enduring its worst energy…
Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region is poised to become the country’s leading solar power generation base with 10 more photovoltaic power plants to be completed within this year. The new plants, with a total investment…
The Chinese government has announced to implement a subsidy and reward program for the country’s herdsmen over the coming years in order to reverse and prevent damage that has been done to China’s grasslands because…
Just like the weather, everyone talks about earthquakes, but Yang Zhimin wants to do something about these powerful natural killers. The retiree knows it’s not possible to stop them, but he is eager for decision-makers…
