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Three missions to Mars: How are they different?

July is the month of Mars. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and China have successfully launched their Mars probes on July 20 and July 23. The U.S.’s most advanced Mars rover Perseverance is set to

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China to boost local-government special bond issuance

VCG China will accelerate the issuance of local-government special bonds, the Ministry of Finance announced in a circular on Wednesday.The issuance of new special bonds should be coordinated w

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Over 54.8 mln people affected by floods in China

The rain-triggered floods in China have affected some 54.8 million people in 27 provincial-level regions as of Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Emergency Manageme

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New NASA research projects probe COVID-19 impacts

NASA has initiated new research projects focused on how the human response to COVID-19 has affected the environment, like how air quality has improved in the wake of r

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Heavy rainfall leaves four dead, affects 140,000 in China's Chongqing

Armed police clean the mud on the street in flood-hit Wuqiao subdistrict in Wanzhou District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, July 18, 2020. (Xinhua/Huang Wei

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China's top legislator stresses implementation of soil pollution prevention law

China's top legislator, Li Zhanshu, has stressed efforts to promote the effective implementation of the law on soil pollution prevention and control in all areas. Li,

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Fresh floods hit China's Chongqing

Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, which is located along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, was on Monday hit by the most severe flooding since the flood

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Homesick camel walks for days in deserts: What an emotional creature!

01:10 A camel walked for seven days across vast mountains and deserts to reach its old home in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The story has touched man

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5 dead, 1 missing as rainstorm batters China's Hubei

Downpour lashed central China's Hubei Province during the weekend, leaving five dead and one missing, local authorities said Monday. Heavy rain hit Jianshi County of E

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Sudan hopes to see "decisive" round of Nile dam talks: ministry

Sudan on Saturday said it hopes that the upcoming round of talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will be "decisive" and "with specific timetable" to address important issues. "Sudan is

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China launches new high-resolution mapping satellite

00:53 China sent a new high-resolution mapping satellite into space on Saturday from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi.The Ziyuan III 0

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How floodgate controls water level in China's Chaohu Lake

Continuous rainfalls have lifted the water level in Chaohu Lake, one of China's five largest fresh water lakes. Find out how the Chaohu floodgate works to prevent floo

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Beijing to restore ecological environment of Yongding River

Beijing gave the green light to an ecological restoration project of the Yongding River, Beijing Evening News reported on Friday. A total of 91 km of the river and are

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Mars 101 with Beijing Planetarium director

03:14 If you are interested in space exploration, you must have heard of the three recent missions to Mars: UAE's Hope, NASA's Perseverance, and China's first-ever Mars

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China allocates $119 mln for disaster relief in flood-hit areas

China channeled 830 million yuan (119.05 million U.S. dollars) from its central budget to restore water conservancy and agricultural production facilities in flood-hit areas, the Ministry of Finan

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21 dead, 16 injured after bus plunges into lake in southwest China

Twenty-one people were killed and 16 others injured after a bus fell into a lake in the city of Anshun in southwest China's Guizhou Province Tuesday, local authorities said. At around noontime

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Roundup: Millions of Bangladeshis among nearly 10 mln South Asians swamped as flood crisis deepens

A natural disaster has been deepening in South Asia as new figures reveal that nearly 10 million people have been affected by monsoon floods, devastating large areas of India, Bangladesh and Nepal, s