​The Fourth International Forum on Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals in Beijing concluded in Beijing on Sunday as the Beijing Declaration on Partnership for Accelerating Sustainable Development through Digital Technologies was released.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have discovered a new firmoss species in southwest China, an extract of which has been proved to be effective in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

Jiang Lili, an associate researcher of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has been leading a team, in collaboration with the CAS Kunming Institute of Botany, to cultivate high-quality and high-yield plant varieties in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, with the aim of addressing forage shortages in the region.

A recent study by the Institute of Geology and Geophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has upended previous understandings of lunar volcanic activity, providing new evidence indicating that volcanoes on the moon continued erupting until about 120 million years ago.

China's ambitious initiative to construct an international lunar research station (ILRS) is paving the way for a new era of global space collaboration, drawing in developing countries without their own space missions and igniting widespread enthusiasm for participation.

For over two decades, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment have been collecting and analyzing ecological data. Together with other institutes at the CAS they have set up more than 30 monitoring sites, scattered across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

On early Thursday, a small asteroid approximately 1.2 meters in diameter entered the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of approximately 20 kilometers per second and exploded at an altitude of about 25 kilometers northeast of the Philippines.

​The International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), which is based in Beijing, on Friday released the world's first atlas of remote-sensing thermal infrared images, providing valuable data support for sustainable development research.

Though it has been only over 3 years since the fishing moratorium was imposed, there have been positive signs that show the recovery of some fish species in the Yangtze.

​China has launched a key open lab that will provide high-quality services for the energy industry and facilitate the application of meteorological research in energy exploration and exploitation. The lab was jointly established by the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) Public Meteorological Service Center, China Huaneng Group Co., Ltd., and the Institute of Atmospheric Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Three geological sites in China, including the Permian vegetation of the Wuda Fossil Site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the Dashanpu Middle Jurassic Dinosaur Fossils Site in southwest China's Sichuan Province and the Guilin Karst in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, have recently been listed as Geological Heritage Sites by the International Union of Geological Sciences.

A research team from the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with various institutions including the CAS Institute of Geochemistry and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, successfully simulated Martian soil using Earth-based basalt and produced continuous Martian soil fibers through melt-drawing experiments.