By Tim Radford China’s cities now have a better idea of what global warming is going to cost. New research warns that for every rise of one degree Celsius in global average temperatures, average electricity demand will rise by 9 percent. And that’s the average demand. For the same shift in the thermometer reading, peak […]
By Sarah Brewin On Oct. 3, the U.S. Senate passed a law to create an agency called the International Development Finance Corporation (IDFC), to replace the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) set up in 1969. The IDFC will invest up to $60 billion in developing countries and, unlike OPIC, is empowered to make equity investments. […]
By Jason Bittel More than 16 feet long and weighing up to 1,100 pounds, Chinese sturgeons are among the world’s largest freshwater fish. They’re big and they’re ancient. According to fossil records, they’ve been swimming China’s Yangtze, Qiantang, Minjiang and Pearl Rivers since the time of the dinosaurs. And now they’re on the brink of […]
Great news from China! Following intense international backlash, the Chinese government said Monday that it has postponed a regulation that would have allowed the use of tiger bone and rhino horn for medicine, research and other purposes. In October, China alarmed animal rights activists around the world when it weakened a 25-year-old ban on the […]
China alarmed animal rights activists around the world Monday when it weakened a 25-year-old ban on the trading of tiger bone and rhinoceros horn, the Huffington Post reported. China said the controversial parts would now be allowed to be used for medicine and research at certified hospitals. The government further said the parts would only […]
More than one million people die each year in China from particulate matter air pollution, but despite 15 years and billions of dollars of efforts to clean up the country’s air, dangerous winter smog persists. Now, an international team of scientists think they have discovered the reason why: The instruments used to measure Beijing’s particulate […]
Six thousand people have been evacuated after a landslide in Tibet Wednesday blocked a river that flows downstream into India, creating a lake that could cause major flooding in the subcontinent once the debris is cleared, The Associated Press reported. Chinese emergency officials announced the evacuations Thursday. The landslide impacted a village in Menling County, […]
After China’s crackdown on foreign waste earlier this year, the United States has turned to poorer countries mostly in Southeast Asia to send its used plastics, according to a new report. This research, authored by Greenpeace‘s investigative team Unearthed, is the first comprehensive analysis of where U.S. recyclers are sending its trash since China introduced […]
While Hurricane Florence inundated the Carolinas this weekend, Typhoon Mangkhut, the most powerful storm so far this year, battered the Philippines and Hong Kong before moving on to China’s Guangdong Province Sunday, The Huffington Post reported. “Typhoon Mangkhut is a huge monster with very similar strengths as Hurricane Florence,” Chinese University of Hong Kong associate […]
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