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After a week of far-reaching climate promises measured over decades, four of the world’s six largest economies have now proposed ending dates for their carbon emissions.President Xi Jinping’s surprise announcement at the annual United Nations climate meeting this week committed China to reaching carbon neutrality by 2060. That brings the third-biggest economy by nominal GDP…

Environment 21 September 2020 By Donna Lu Shenyang, Liaoning province, in 2014JACKY CHEN/REUTERS Air pollution in China and Taiwan is estimated to have resulted in the premature deaths of 30.8 million adults since 2000. Yang Liu at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and his colleagues used satellite imagery to quantify the amount of air pollution…

A Chinese pharmaceutical company has injected hundreds of thousands of people with experimental Covid-19 vaccines, as its Western counterparts warn against administering mass vaccinations before rigorous scientific studies are complete. China National Biotec Group Co., a subsidiary of state-owned Sinopharm, has given two experimental vaccine candidates to hundreds of thousands of people under an emergency-use…

By Jonathan O’Callaghan China’s Long March 2F rocket on a launchpad at Jiuquan Satellite Launch CenterImaginechina Limited / Alamy China appears to have launched an experimental space plane earlier this morning, which may be the precursor to a vehicle that can carry humans to and from space. Early on 4 September, China is thought to…

BEIJING (AP) — The head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention says he has been injected with an experimental coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to persuade the public to follow suit when one is approved.“I’m going to reveal something undercover: I am injected with one of the vaccines,” Gao Fu said in…