The city is calling on 1,000 Chinese people and foreigners to volunteer to help plant trees on March 12, when the country marks its 30th Tree Planting Day anniversary at Fengxian Bay National Forest Park. Xiao Qianghua, director of the greenery office of Shanghai Landscaping Administration Bureau, said that the activity is ...

China faces acute environmental and resource strains that threaten to choke growth unless the world's second-biggest economy cleans up, the nation's environment minister said in an unusually blunt warning. In an essay published on Monday, Zhou Shengxian also said his agency wants to make assessing projected greenhouse gas emissions a part ...

Speedy tree planting may be the answer to the world's dwindling forest problem. This past Thursday, over 64,000 trees were planted in 15 minutes, breaking the world record for the most trees planted simultaneously. The Independent reports that almost 7,000 people helped to plant saplings in the Philippines province of Camrines ...

BMW claims its Vision EfficientDynamics car accelerates from 0-100km/h in less than five seconds. The group also states that the new plug-in diesel hybrid drive train uses only 3.8 litres of fuel and keeps CO2emissions to 99g/km. “The Vision EfficientDynamics Concept embodies everything that BMW EfficientDynamics stands for, it is the ...

"We will show the documentary Jane's Journey, which is about Jane Goodalls life's work and her private life. More than 20 years ago, Dr. Jane Goodall, now 76, decided to give up her career as a primatologist, as well as her private life, in order to devote her entire energy ...

Asia's biggest greenhouse with an exhibition of spectacular plants has opened at the Chenshan Botanical Garden in Shanghai's suburban Songjiang District. The 12,000-square-meter greenhouse contains more than 3,000 species from around the world, including rare and protected plants. The greenhouse contains three areas: one for rare plants, one for desert plants and ...

Local authorities will take measures to control dust pollution and straw burning this year in order to return to the clean air conditions Shanghai residents enjoyed during last year's World Expo, said the Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau. The city's air quality has been widely described as getting worse by locals since ...

A report titled 'Asia's green cities', published by a Singaporean think tank in association with Siemens, placed 5 Chinese cities in medium place for their environmental friendliness, but showed that energy consumption relative to GDP in the 5 Chinese cities surveyed was the highest in Asia. The cities were compared on ...

Last year the number of wind turbine had risen by 20%, 50% of them were installed in china last year 2010, which make china the first country in the world when it comes to wind energy, china needs urgently such renewable and green energy to feed its fast growing economy, ...

The Pearl River Tower building in Guangzhou, China is set to become the world’s most energy efficient facility, by incorporating wind and solar technologies into its systems. Jaime Velez of the project’s planner Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, says that since they started the design of the building, production of electricity from ...