China can make staple crops carbon-negative by adding biochar to soil
14 February 2023
Researchers calculate that alternative farming practices could turn staple crop production into a carbon sink and boost crop yields in China if adopted en masse
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China is putting nature at risk with its biodiversity summit delays
10 June 2022
It's time for China to put national pride aside and let another country host the UN COP15 biodiversity conference, for the sake of wildlife, plants and habitats worldwide, says Adam Vaughan
China's new climate plan promises to peak CO2 emissions before 2030
28 October 2021
China is responsible for 27 per cent of global emissions, making its newly announced climate plan an important move ahead of the COP26 climate summit
China's covid-19 lockdowns brought forward spring bloom by eight days
25 August 2021
Clearer skies from restrictions on traffic during the covid-19 pandemic seem to have brought forward China’s spring by around eight days, resulting in so much vegetation growth that the country was almost a fifth "greener"
China must act fast to avoid breaching the world's 1.5°C climate goal
22 April 2021
China will have to clean up its entire power sector by 2050 if the world is to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of holding global warming to 1.5°C – meaning its carbon emissions must peak much earlier than currently planned
Chinese air pollution data was altered, statistical analysis suggests
21 April 2021
A statistical analysis of air pollution data gathered in Chinese cities between 2015 and 2017 has shown that discrepancies between official data and readings taken at US embassies are probably due to data being altered
Recent drop in emissions from China may speed up ozone layer recovery
10 February 2021
The ozone layer may recover more quickly than first thought thanks mostly to reduced emissions from China of a banned ozone-depleting gas
China's cuts to air pollution may have saved 150,000 lives each year
22 October 2020
Levels of harmful particulate matter in China’s air have been falling since 2015, and this may have prevented 150,000 premature deaths per year
China's 2060 carbon neutral pledge is a big deal but is it big enough?
23 September 2020
China surprised the world yesterday when president Xi Jinping told the United Nations general assembly that the country would achieve carbon neutrality before 2060
Chinese nature reserves focus so much on pandas that leopards suffer
3 August 2020
China’s conservation efforts to save giant pandas have paid off for the bears, but miserably failed leopards and other carnivores that share their home
