Chinese scientist Yao Tandong receives 2017 Vega Medal in Stockholm

NIEER Scientist gives a report on Antarctic Expedition

Recently , China ’ s 33rd Antarctic expedition has come to a successful end .Dr . DU introduced the deep ice core drilling on Dome A , the snow and ice sampling and material balance monitoring in Zhongshan Station and Dome A , three meteorological stations installation and data updating and collecting on Antarctic ...

International Research Center for Asia Cold-regions Environment and Engineering was founded in Lanzhou

International Research Center for Asia Cold-regions Environment and Engineering ( IRC-ACEE ) , which is jointly built by Northwest Institute of Eco-environment and Resources ( NIEER ) and Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences ( SB RAS ) .And he hoped that the Yakutian Scientific Center and NIEER would take ...

Dr. W.R.L. Cairns and Dr. Roberta Zangra visit SKLCS

Dr . W . R . L . Cairns and Dr . Roberta Zangra , come from Venice University , visited State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences ( SKLCS ) at the invitation of Prof . Kang Shichang on Mar .Two scholars gave two academic reports with the title “ Analysis of mercury in Alpine air , and Antarctic air and snow and ...

Melting Arctic Ice Likely Worsens Winter Haze in China: Study

Climate change in the polar regions may have worsened winter haze problems in China , which pledges more efforts to tackle air pollution despite the country ' s decreasing emissions , according to a study published Wednesday ." They did not prove that A ( Artic sea ice ) and B ( severe haze in China ) are even conne...

Cryosphere Sciences Assist the 2022 Olympic Winter Games

2022 Olympic Winter Games will be held in Beijing . As global warming intensifies and extreme weather occurs frequently , sports fields of the Olympic Winter Games will be challenged .CAS Member Qin Dahe leaded and activated an academician advisory program to support and guarantee the snow and ice conditions during ...

Across China: Thirty years of gritty determination - China's desert warriors

Shapotou in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region nestles where the Yellow River meets the Tengger Desert. For more than five decades researchers have been coming here to fight desertification. Li Xinrong is one of them.

Tibetan Headwaters of the Yangtze Under Threat

The glaciers which feed the “ Yangtze River Source Region ” ( YRSR ) are in the “ most sensitive area to global warming ” atop the Tibetan Plateau .According to a study led by the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research . Nearly a quarter of the glacier coverage throughout the headwater region melted from 1970 thr...