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China Passes Law Fining Restaurants for Serving Too Much Food ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images 30 Apr 2021 The Communist Party of China implemented a law Thursday extensively regulating how much food each citizen in the country can eat, requiring restaurants to fine individuals if they leave too many leftovers and banning social media videos showing people binge eating. Chinese lawmakers first proposed the law in December, after floods devastated 27 of the nation’s 31 provinces and threat...

Tonnes of toxic waste collected from British municipal dumps is being sent illegally to Africa in flagrant breach of this country’s obligation to ensure its rapidly growing mountain of defunct televisions, computers and gadgets are disposed of safely. Hundreds of thousands of discarded items, which under British law must be dismantled or recycled by specialist contractors, are being packaged into cargo containers and shipped to countries such as Nigeria and Ghana, where they are stripped of t...

EDPR.LS Profile EDP Renovaveis Q1 Clean Energy Production Up 5% YoY EDPR To Sell 55% Stake In 405 MW Wind Portfolio In The U.S. for-phone-onlyfor-tablet-portrait-upfor-tablet-landscape-upfor-desktop-upfor-wide-desktop-up About EDP Renovaveis SA EDP Renovaveis SA, also known as EDPR, is a Spain-based company active in the renewable energy sector. The Company concentrates on the production of energy from renewable resources. The Companys activities comprise the development, operation and maintena...

Melting glaciers threaten China’s plan to build world’s biggest hydroelectric dam in Tibet A landslide in 2018 has created an icy problem in the Yarlung Tsangpo, the proposed site of a hydropower plant Climate change may make the roof of the world more liveable but with the warmth comes the risk of more natural disasters

The Yangtze sturgeon, also known as Dabry’s sturgeon. (CN) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife approved the listing of the Yangtze sturgeon under the Endangered Species Act on Friday in an effort to stave off the accelerated decline of the ancient fish species also known as Dabry’s sturgeon.  “Loss of individuals due to overharvesting on the Yangtze River is the main factor that contributed to the historical decline of the species,” Fish and Wildlife said in a document published to the Fede...

CHINA / SOCIETY By Lin Xiaoyi in Yichang Published: Apr 20, 2021 09:13 PM As the mammoth Three Gorges project contributes hugely to Chinas pursuit of low-carbon development by making great use of renewable hydropower, it is trying all possible means to reduce its impact on the ecological environment - as a result, a situation is forming where most local fish and plant species are recovering and some are having a bigger population than before the project was built. Experts reached by the Glo...

Tibet Post International A Voice For Tibet Where is Tibet located on a map? Latest News His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi, India on Nov 10, 2018. Photo/Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL 04-20-21 00:00:00 04-13-21 00:00:00 12-25-20 00:00:00 06-27-20 11:39:59 Tsetan Norbu, President of National Democratic Party of Tibet (NDPT). Photo: TPI/Aashna Thakur Latest Impact Ian Hickie, a Professor of Psychiatry i...

2021-04-16 07:35:47 GMT2021-04-16 15:35:47(Beijing Time) Xinhua English WUHAN, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinas Three Gorges reservoir has replenished 10 billion cubic meters of water to meet the demand for water use at the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The water was diverted from mid-December 2020, as the rainfall in downstream areas is relatively low, causing a water supply shortage in some places. The average water outflow speed of the reservoir reached 7,710 cubic meters ...

Three Gorges reservoir diverts 10 bln cubic meters of water in dry season 1 2021-04-16 16:47:26Xinhua Editor : Li Yan ECNS App Download Chinas Three Gorges reservoir has replenished 10 billion cubic meters of water to meet the demand for water use at the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The water was diverted from mid-December 2020, as the rainfall in downstream areas is relatively low, causing a water supply shortage in some places. The average wa...

  ISLAMABAD, April 15 (Gwadar Pro) - Chinese firms are ranked first in the hydropower sector in Pakistan due to their global competitiveness in quality and cost, and their valour to work in difficult terrains and tough situations, officials associated with the sector told Gwadar Pro.   Currently, all important hydropower projects in Pakistan are being executed by Chinese firms. Some of these projects are financed by China, but they have also won several big projects in open competition.   Ch...