Tag: china

The pace and scale of China's economic transformation have no historical precedent. In 1979, China initiated a series of reforms ...

When she was pregnant, former Chinese news anchor Chai Jing got some tragic news - her unborn daughter was diagnosed ...

China's has reached a new milestone in its space program - its latest spacecraft service module has entered orbit around the ...

President Obama and Chinese leader  Xi Jinping agreed to sign a deal that will see the US nearly double its ...

Early developmental stages of Megasphaera. Xiao et al. Some bizarre spherical fossils found in China may be remnants of some of ...

Factories in China. Image via Wiki Commons. Despite significant steps towards a more sustainable future, China is still the world's ...

This year has been full of encouraging news from China - apparently, they're committed to their war on pollution, and ...

People from Beijing can now use one of the city's 34 newly installed facilities which allows them to pay for ...

A baby pangolin, a target for many poachers. China has finally clarified the legislation regarding the consumption of endangered species. ...

The Chinese government sort of took everyone by surprise after it made a most unaccustomed  statement; it admitted the country ...

While pollution is most felt locally, where its produced, some of it eventually winds up in remote locations proving to ...

While some governments may be more environmentally conscious and apply strict environmental policies, others are not. It's important, however, that ...

The low quality of the Chinese air is more than simply a nuisance - China has by far the worst ...

In the early hours of December 2nd, China deployed its Chang’e-3 spacecraft on route for the moon after launching it via ...

(c) Wiki Commons This "How to" may not be that relevant in modern times, but in the XIV and XV ...

Residents in China’s northeast region of Harbin are experiencing severe levels of smog pollution, which reduced the visibility to just ...

Disguised as employess of a gas company, Beijing policemen burst into an otherwise ordinary looking apartment; the two suspects inside ...

The Chinese government is well on track in its plans of implement a modern and more secure internet infrastructure. The ...

In case you didn't know, China has a massive problem with smog; the dark shroud has covered a large part ...

Remember how a few days ago, the entire media and popullation of China was outraged by the smog covering a ...

Paleontologists have come across the oldest fossils identified as a relative of the giant panda in Spain, dated from 12 ...

China is set on covering a lot of lost ground in its race of becoming a full fledged space super ...

One of the pottery fragments recovered from a layer dating approximately 20,000 years old in the Xianrendong cave in south ...

This Monday, China took a historic step forward after the nation's manned spacecraft Shenzhou-9 successfully docked the Tiangong 1 space station test ...

The Amur leopard is a beautiful leopard subspecies native to the region of the Russian far east, which since 1996 ...

China is the most pollutant country in the world, and as it continues to develop industrially, one can only expect ...

In what's arguable the most important physics discovery ever to come out of China, and a perfect example of "by ...

There's some good coming off China's extensive coal exploitation (the nation holds the top place for most pollutant emissions resulting ...

According to a new report released by the Chinese authorities, global warming "threatens China's march to prosperity by cutting crops, ...

Currently, China is the world's largest carbon emissions contributor. Despite their efforts to make energy consumption more efficient, China's linear ...

On November 1st, only a few weeks ago, China opened a new chapter in its space program after successfully docking ...

In the darkest caves of  southwest China, one can experience fragments of the long set Ice Age and travel back ...

Recently, China's Yellow Sea has been clogged for a surface of nearly 7,700 square miles (20,000 square kilometers) by a ...

Last year, in October, China launched its second moon orbiter, as part of the country's rapidly growing reformed space program ...

Reminiscent of the infamous one-child policy introduced in China in 1978, which limited urban Chinese families togiving birth to a ...

How's your Mandarin? If it's as rusty as mine, we'd do best and brush up on it since it seems ...

Well the teahouse itself isn't dangerous at all, but as in life, it's about the journey, and not about the ...

Only a decade since China launched its first human being into orbit, and three years since the first space walk ...

When we think about money today, bills or coins pop up in an average mind, maybe even credit cards; even ...

Five years ago, an outbreak of a mysterious and deadly disease in central China first started alarming local authorities when ...

Censorship and filtering has been a long time practice used by Chinese authorities, and it's a known fact that you ...

We now know that pre-modern human tool use dates back far beyond we previously might have thought, each discovery proving ...

What's maybe China's most prominent symbol, the Giant Panda has been for decades now on the endangered species list, with ...

Just a short while ago, I was telling you about the extremely worrying decline of the Siberian tigers (and not ...

Well despite what many people might think, Hollywood isn't and never was the center of the world (hopefully, it won't ...

First of all, it has to be said that this once common burial practice in Tibet is pretty hard to ...

  Think about China today; the country with the most people in the world, who's surface is in the top ...

Photo by Stefan Everybody (or almost everybody) believes that no matter what, USA remains "polluter no. 1". Don't take my ...