Coronavirus: How China's using surveillance to tackle outbreak →
The Chinese government has used tools such as phone tracking to control the outbreak. Other countries are starting to look at similar technological solutions. BBC NEWS
Read MoreChina’s revised forest law could boost efforts to fight illegal logging →
In the first revision to the country’s Forest Law in over twenty years, China has banned trade in illegal logs. China is the world’s largest importer of legal and illegal timber, and if the change is enforced it could boost efforts to fight the illegal logging trade. MONGABAY
Read MoreChina’s cases of Covid-19 are finally declining. A WHO expert explains why. →
“It’s all about speed”: the most important lessons from China’s Covid-19 response. It’s now critical that the rest of the world learn as much as it can from China’s efforts to respond to and limit the spread of the virus. VOX
Read MoreApp checks whether you've come in contact with deadly coronavirus →
China released an app over the weekend that lets residents check to see if they’ve come in “close contact” with Covid-19, the coronavirus that’s killed more than a thousand people in the nation. FUTURISM
Read MoreMake trains not war →
A landmark deal to let China build Boston’s new subway cars shows how a little creative collaboration could rescue America’s infrastructure. REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL
Read MoreCoronavirus: Scientists race to develop a vaccine →
At Inovio's lab in San Diego, scientists are using a relatively new type of DNA technology to develop a potential vaccine. "INO-4800" - as it's currently called - with plans for it to enter human trials by the early summer. BBC NEWS
Read MoreIs it okay to copy China? →
A country that opposes human rights and democracy is also coming up with some smart solutions. Can we emulate the good without endorsing the bad? REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL
Read MoreChina has announced a new plan to crack down on most single-use plastics by 2025 →
In a statement on Sunday, China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said both the production and use of a large number of single-use plastics would be slowly phased out across the country by the middle of the decade. CNN
Read MoreChina expects its “artificial sun” to be operational in 2020 →
Chinese scientists believe the nation’s HL-2M tokamak — a device designed to replicate nuclear fusion, the same reaction that powers the Sun — will become operational in 2020. It’s a milestone that experts think could finally make nuclear fusion a viable energy option on Earth. FUTURISM
Read MoreChina to meet ultra-low emissions goals →
Polluting emissions from Chinese thermal power plants declined significantly between 2014 and 2017, according to research involving UCL. The reductions are important in helping to control China’s national emissions which could lead to an improvement in air quality and considerable health benefits. THE ECOLOGIST
Read MoreChina to tackle climate change with 'nature-based solutions' →
China said it will try to persuade other countries to support “nature-based solutions” to tackle the root causes of climate change, the country said in a position paper published ahead of a United Nations summit in New York. REUTERS
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