China is now the world leader in renewable energy investment, as developing countries overtook developed ones for the first time in the value of major “green” projects in 2010, according to a report released Tuesday…
Category: Environment
About 840 square kilometers of sea off the coast of Shandong Province is polluted by oil as a result of two spills at a Sino-US co-developed offshore oilfield, the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said on…
An oil leak last month from China’s largest offshore oilfield was the fault of the field’s operator ConocoPhillips and the U.S. firm will take the blame for the accident, the China State Oceanic Administration said on Tuesday….
BEIJING – A leak from the Penglai 19-3 oilfield in Bohai Bay, operated by ConocoPhillips China (COPC), will have a “long-term impact” on the marine environment, China’s top ocean watchdog warned on Tuesday. The oil…
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….
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…