COVID-19 is one of countless emerging infectious diseases that are zoonotic, meaning they originate in animals. About 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, accounting for billions of illnesses and millions of ...
Ecology
Apr 1, 2020
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The novel coronavirus outbreak in China may end up saving one of the world's most trafficked animals after Beijing announced a total ban on the sale and consumption of the pangolin.
Ecology
Feb 26, 2020
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The spread of the coronavirus disease known as COVID-19 is a public health emergency with economic and social ramifications in China and across the world. While the impacts on business are well documented, education is also ...
Education
Feb 24, 2020
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The rapid development of China's coronavirus crisis coincided with the annual idling of much of the country's economic activity due to the Lunar New Year break, which typically runs for a week or two. Global economists have ...
Economics & Business
Feb 14, 2020
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A new study uses China's one-child policy to show that having fewer children leads women to achieve higher levels of education.
Economics & Business
Feb 12, 2020
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The deadly coronavirus outbreak, which has killed over 600 people and infected thousands more, may have been transmitted from bats to humans via pangolins, according to new research.
Plants & Animals
Feb 10, 2020
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After an intercontinental flight on the "Panda Express," a furry American darling arrived early Thursday in his new Chinese home.
Plants & Animals
Nov 21, 2019
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There's a building boom on the Tibetan plateau, one of the world's last remote places. Mountains long crowned by garlands of fluttering prayer flags—a traditional landscape blessing—are newly topped with sprawling steel ...
Environment
Nov 12, 2019
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Writing in Nature Sustainability, an international group of agriculture and environmental scientists warn that the Chinese Government's desire to relocate its pig industry from the South, in order to protect water quality ...
Environment
Oct 8, 2019
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An international team of researchers studying data from China's Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has measured cosmic ray protons up to the energy of 100 TeV with high precision for the first time. In their paper published ...
