Tokyo’s gamble with its Olympic architecture needs to be appreciated: Part 2

This second of a two-part series examines the environmental benefits of reusing of old buildings as the games venues rather than constructing new

Fight barriers to solutions to clean air

Need solution-driven agenda to build public and political will to overpower resistance from inconvenience of change

Scientists identify genes that can increase drought resistance in plants

African ‘orphan’ crop varieties to help plants battle high temperatures  

COVID-19: Fresh Beijing cluster raises human-to-human transmission concerns

Chief epidemiologist at the Chinese CDC also pointed to influx of meat and seafood from across the country as cause for infection

Over 31,000 evacuated from Beijing as Typhoon Doksuri breaks rainfall records

Doksuri is China’s fifth and most powerful typhoon seen in 2023 

Quarter of a billion likely infected with COVID-19 in China from December 1-20: Government

Nearly 37 million people may have been infected on a single day this week

Fresh China outbreak attributed to multiple known pathogens

Surge could be due to ‘immunity debt’, in turn caused by many pandemic restrictions that prevented exposure to other respiratory viruses

China’s climate pledge and the 2020 irony

Last year China produced a record 3.84 billion tonnes of coal since 2015

Mysterious pneumonia-like illness grips China, sparks fear of a pandemic

Experts speculate mycoplasma bacterium to be behind outbreak; more information needed for confirmation

Chinese private security firms are growing their presence in Africa: Why it matters

Trend has been seen in Mali, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania

China confirms human-to-human transmission for coronavirus

WHO to convene emergency meeting on January 22, 2020