China has the largest programme in the world for cloud seeding. Hubei province in central China will use silver iodide rods to seed clouds and induce rainfall. China’s largest hydropower project, will raise water discharges by 500 million cubic meters. As large portions of the country experience the greatest heat wave on record and the … Read more
The 300-kilogram (661-pound) Cambodian beam caught in the Mekong is the largest freshwater fish ever recorded, scientists say. In 2005, it broke the previous record of 293 kg of Mekong fish caught in Thailand. There are no official records or databases of the largest freshwater fish in the world. The 300-kilogram (661-pound) Cambodian beam caught in the Mekong is the largest freshwater fish ever recorded, scientists say. In 2005, it broke the previous record of 293 kg of Mekong fish caught in Thailand. There are no official records or databases of the largest freshwater fish … Read more
Flooding in the Chinese province of Hunan has killed at least 10 people and left three missing. 286,000 people have been evacuated to safety and more than 2,700 homes damaged or completely destroyed. Climate change is causing more violent tropical storms, resulting in greater flooding. Flooding in the central China province of Hunan has killed … Read more
CHANGSHA – Every winter, Cao Jianjun waits for his “friends” at a national wetland park in central China’s Hunan Province. In 2013, Cao caught the Chinese merganser, an endangered bird species under class-one state protection for the first time in the province’s Shuangpai County. Since then, his camera lens has captured more and more of … Read more
