China is well known for its medicinal use of wild plants, a tradition that dates back thousands of years. These traditional Chinese medicines include many wild orchids, some quite showy.
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2022
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Authorities often resort to bank loan regulation when the housing market overheats. The emergence of lightly regulated online intermediaries, however, can make it harder to curb speculation.
Economics & Business
Dec 14, 2022
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Many countries have had to navigate the balancing act of keeping the economy alive versus protecting citizens from COVID in recent years. In China, patience with its zero-COVID policy—one of the world's toughest strategies ...
Economics & Business
Dec 7, 2022
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A biodiversity crisis is reducing the variety of life on Earth. Under pressure from land and water pollution, development, overhunting, poaching, climate change and species invasions, approximately 1 million plant and animal ...
Ecology
Dec 5, 2022
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The improvement of human settlements is an important goal of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development, which has also attracted wide attention from the Chinese government and scholars. However, previous studies on ...
Social Sciences
Nov 9, 2022
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In most of its habitats, the heavily trafficked pangolin's biggest threat comes from humans. But in Taiwan, the scaly mammals brave a different danger: a surging feral dog population.
Ecology
Sep 25, 2022
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It's not just rocket fuel propelling America's first moonshot after a half-century lull. Strategic rivalry with China's ambitious space program is helping drive NASA's effort to get back into space in a bigger way, as both ...
Space Exploration
Sep 15, 2022
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There was no reported damage in a western Philippine region where debris from the final stage of a rocket that launched part of China's new space station reportedly fell, a Filipino official said Monday.
Space Exploration
Aug 1, 2022
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When Laura Zhang Choi testified to New Jersey legislators last month, she told them they needed better information about the state's fastest-growing population—Asian Americans.
Social Sciences
Jul 6, 2022
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India's ban on wheat exports has denied the country's farmers and traders an opportunity to earn money from the sale of wheat in the global market that is currently facing shortages of the prime staple as a result of Russia's ...
Economics & Business
May 25, 2022
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