Exceptionally high temperatures from New York to Paris, Berlin, and Moscow to Beijing and Shanghai is making climate change a hot topic these days at forums, workshops and conferences.
A media report earlier this week said China had overtaken the US as the world's biggest energy consumer. Although a day later Chinese officials refuted the claim, the Western media were quick to shed crocodile tears over an "energy-hungry dragon".
The greenery and exotic plants featured in the New Zealand Pavilion offer a scenic alternative to the glass and steel structures and countless video productions found in most pavilions in the Expo Garden.
Visitors to an international automobile fair in Northeast China this year noticed a change taking place at the event: a greater number of hybrid and all-electric vehicles on display.
A World Bank working paper published online today pointed out that urban transportation public policy could affect a city's CO2 emissions in more ways than one.
An oil tanker berthed at northeast China's Dalian Xingang Harbor Thursday for the first time since an oil pipe explosion at the harbor six days ago.
China National Petroleum Corp said Thursday a vital pipeline has resumed operations after an explosion caused the country's largest reported oil spill.
China's endeavor to increase the use of clean energy got a big boost on Wednesday after an experimental fast reactor using the mostly homegrown fourth-generation nuclear technology reached the critical state.
China is set to begin domestic carbon trading programs during its 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015) to help it meet its 2020 carbon intensity target.
Domestic system for carbon trading
Residents in pilot communities have been making slow progress sorting household garbage, despite Beijing municipal government's efforts in equipping hundreds of residential communities with categorized garbage bins.
PetroChina Co's Dalian oil refinery, the company's biggest, is operating at a normal rate even as an oil spill closed nearby berths, because the plant relies on its own docks to ensure steady crude supplies and fuel shipments.
China may spend about 5 trillion yuan ($738 billion) in the next decade developing cleaner sources of energy to reduce emissions from burning oil and coal, a government official said.
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