This winter, Nicolas de Fermor, a passionate French skier, traded the familiar for the unexpected. He set off on an inaugural journey to northwest China's Xinjiang, where a booming ice-and-snow tourism season is drawing an increasing number of international tourists.
China's man-made carbon emissions rose 0.6 percent in 2024, a significantly slower pace than the previous year and below the global average growth rate, the country's meteorological authority said on Wednesday, indicating that efforts to meet the country's climate commitments are gaining momentum.
For the past 54 years, Wang Cheng has shared his life with some noisy neighbors. Every morning from 5 to 7 and every evening from 5 until sunset, his neighbors fill the air with their chatter, chirps, squawks and trills, seemingly oblivious to the presence of human residents nearby.
Multi-types of transport helicopters attached to an aviation brigade under the Chinese PLA Xizang Military Command lift off successively from the parking apron during a flight training exercise on November 23, 2025.
As evening descended, People's Daily reporters followed staff members from Shaanxi Hanzhong Crested Ibis National Nature Reserve to a natural roosting site to observe the return of the birds.
The harsh winter winds of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau used to worry herder Sonam Tsering in a very specific way. They would blow plastic bags away from the nearby rubbish dumps, sending them swirling through the air before settling across pastures.
As winter blankets Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, the vibrant landscape belies the scientific milestone it houses: a 30-square-meter "vault of life" -- the seed bank of the National Wild Plant Germplasm Resource Center for Chenshan Botanical Garden
The Taklimakan Desert sand-blocking green belt project in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which celebrated its first anniversary on Friday, has effectively protected surrounding oases, farmland and grasslands by curbing desert expansion, with sand sources now under control.
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as Asia's "water tower", holds an estimated 10 trillion cubic meters of surface water storage, a resource scientists say is increasingly vital to water security for more than two billion people across the continent.
In the heart of the Kubuqi Desert in Dalad banner, Ordos, north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, more than 3,000 workers are building one of China's most ambitious energy storage projects: the 3GW/12.8GWh Gushanliang energy storage power station.
his aerial drone photo taken on Nov. 6, 2025 shows the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge and the nearby Yundu service area in southwest China's Guizhou Province.
A rare holoparasitic flowering plant that had not been observed in the wild for about 30 years recently began blooming in the Mengla Nature Reserve Rainforest in Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture, Yunnan province, according to Xishuangbanna News.
A team of international scientists from China, Germany and the United States has identified an important assemblage of dinosaur footprints in Wucha Village, Renhuai City, southwest China's Guizhou Province.
On Haizi Mountain in Daocheng in southwest China's Sichuan Province, with an average altitude over 4,400 meters, a silent sentinel keeps watch over the universe.
Experts, officials and representatives from over 30 countries and regions gathered Friday in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, for the opening of the Global Panda Partners Conference 2025.
In Sunjia Village of Yantai, in east China's Shandong Province, communal life after sunset is now powered by every passing breeze and ray of sunshine.
China's second Qinghai-Tibet Plateau scientific expedition has yielded significant practical outcomes, with its top 10 application achievements officially released on Wednesday in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.
Pingliang in Gansu Province is a key node in the "Loess Plateau-Sichuan-Yunnan Ecological barrier" and a major ecological zone for soil and water conservation in the hilly areas.
As dusk falls, villager Xiao Yang follows his usual routine of gathering his friends for card games beneath streetlamps fitted with small wind turbines and photovoltaic panels. While they play, they charge their phones on the solar-powered bench they're seated on, the gentle hum of clean energy quietly powering their evening
In the early morning, as mist lingers over the northern foothills of Bashan Mountain, the old street of Zhongjiagou village in Xixiang county, Hanzhong city, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, comes alive with the mingled aromas of dried tofu and tea
China's concentrated solar power (CSP) sector is accelerating its pace of industrialization and scale-up, with its growth rate far surpassing the global average and domestic technology localization almost reaching self-sufficiency.
Staff members sell navel oranges via live-streaming at a planting base in Quxian County of Dazhou, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Nov. 18, 2025.
Five years ago, Meishu Village, tucked deep in the mountains of central China, joined thousands of villages across the country in shedding the official label of poverty.
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as "the roof of the world," has entered its third environmental transformation in geological history - a groundbreaking concept first proposed by Chinese scientists on Wednesday.
