Tag: China
China could face deadly heat waves due to climate change
A region that holds one of the biggest concentrations of people on Earth could be pushing against the boundaries of habitability by the latter...
Solar thermal energy will help China cut costs of climate action
China's power systems operators must invest in renewable energy to meet climate commitments. Wind power and PV are the lowest cost renewables, but they...
China looks to science and technology to fuel its economy
Maintaining stability in the face of rapid change and growth, and proactively partaking in cooperative global ties in science and technology fields will be...
Ancient shrimp-like animals had ‘modern’ hearts and blood vessels
An international team of researchers from the University of Arizona, China and the United Kingdom has discovered the earliest known cardiovascular system, and the...
Hybrid Vehicles More Fuel Efficient In India, China Than in U.S.
What makes cities in India and China so frustrating to drive in—heavy traffic, aggressive driving style, few freeways—makes them ideal for saving fuel with...
Warming Climate May Spread Drying to a Third of Earth
Increasing heat is expected to extend dry conditions to far more farmland and cities by the end of the century than changes in rainfall...
The Frozen Truth about Glaciers, Climate Change and Our Future
Lewis Owen has been scraping out icy fragments of history's truth from one of the most glaciated regions on Earth for the past 25...
Lurking in the darkness of Chinese caves 5 new species of...
Armored spiders are medium to small species that derive their name from the complex pattern of the plates covering their abdomen strongly resembling body...
China still feeling internal brain drain, other migration settling down
The brain drain of educated workers is still felt most severely in China’s central and western provinces, since most knowledge-based industries are generally concentrated...
How Twitter shapes public opinion
Dominant, majority viewpoints emerge quickly on Twitter and, once stabilized, become difficult to change
How exactly does Twitter, with its 241 million users tweeting out...
