Beijing is studying the feasibility of seawater desalination to meet its voracious demand for water. At 9 yuan ($1.39) per cubic meter, the cost of desalinated water is more than twice the price of regular…
Category: Environment
Developed countries should take a lead in adopting verifiable goals to greatly reduce per capita carbon emissions, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hong Lei said Tuesday. Hong said at a regular press conference that according to statistics…
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…
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”…