Many regions across the globe located along the Tropic of Cancer are arid deserts, yet Dinghu Mountain National Nature Reserve in Zhaoqing, Guangdong province, stands as an ecological outlier with a 98 percent forest coverage rate. As China's first national nature reserve, this primeval forest — referred to as the "Green Pearl on the Tropic of Cancer Desert Belt" — harbors 2,291 species of higher plants and 277 species of birds, and the groundbreaking scientific achievements made in the reserve have revolutionized global understanding of forest carbon sequestration.
Chinese scientists, in collaboration with international researchers, have successfully achieved high-resolution imaging of millimeter-scale targets at a distance of 1.36 kilometers, a breakthrough that opens up new possibilities for applications such as long-range, high-precision remote sensing applications, as well as space debris detection.
The 5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves, initiated by UNESCO, will convene this September in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province. The event will discuss the global strategy and action plan for the next decade under the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, and release a global declaration named after the host city.
A team of Chinese and Australian researchers has for the first time discovered fossils of Palaeospondylus in an area located outside Scotland, according to the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
A group of Chinese scientists have jointly developed a global ocean circulation model with a horizontal resolution of one kilometer, the Science and Technology Daily reported on Thursday. The global ocean circulation model LICOMK++, developed by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Laoshan Laboratory, enables the direct simulation of sub-mesoscale processes in the ocean.
A new study has revealed that changes in plant life had played a crucial role in speeding up major climate shifts during the late Miocene, a period that lasted from 11.6 to 5.3 million years ago. The study, recently published in the journal Science Advances, was led by researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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