As part of their survival, wild elephants migrate long distances in search of food and water. However, their travels sometimes encroach on human settlements creating tensions with local residents and farmers. That's why Spanish ecologist Ahimsa and his Chinese colleagues are busy at work in southwestern China mediating between man and elephant, finding solutions for a more harmonious coexistence.

A remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV), carried by the Chinese scientific research vessel Exploration-2, has been tested with a maximum working depth of 4,308 meters in the South China Sea, the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (IDSSE) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences said on Thursday.

Scientists from China and New Zealand have completed a successful dive to the Scholl Deep in the Kermadec Trench during a two-month joint scientific voyage onboard China's research vessel Tansuoyihao.

As China pursues high-quality development, the global manufacturing powerhouse expects to cultivate an upgraded manufacturing sector geared with advanced technologies to boost productivity and drive economic growth. In Shenzhen, a manufacturing hub, the total output value of the robot industry reached 158.2 billion yuan in 2021, with the total number of robotics enterprises reaching 945, according to the White Paper on Robot Industry Development issued by the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shenzhen Robotics Association.

China released a stunning scientific image of the surface of the sun on Monday, the very first image produced by its "Hard X-ray Imager (HXI)" in space and the only of its kind available around the world.

Twenty-five cities from 13 countries, notably seven from China, were accredited by the Ramsar Convention as international wetland cities this November. The seven newly certified Chinese cities are Hefei of Anhui Province, Jining of Shandong Province, Liangping of Chongqing Municipality, Nanchang of Jiangxi Province, Panjin of Liaoning Province, Wuhan of Hubei Province and Yancheng of Jiangsu Province.

In a recent poll, netizens voted to name a rare Yangtze finless porpoise. Efforts to protect this endangered species have shown promising signs in China during the past few years. After the voting concluded, a team of experts selected "Hanbao" from the most popular replies, which has the same pronunciation as "hamburger" in Chinese. The name really suits it since the calf's chubby body is just like a hamburger. Moreover it was born in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province. "Hanbao" means "Wuhan's treasure" in Chinese.

The port city of Dalian in northeast China has switched on a new energy storage system, which starts to operate recently. It's the world's largest of its kind and will help Dalian deal with spikes in energy demand.

The solar radio imaging telescope has completed the hardware integration after four years of construction, and officially entered the phase of concept verification. It is expected to be put into trial operation in June 2023. The telescope is composed of 313 antennas of 6 m diameter. All antennas are uniformly distributed along a circle of 1000 m diameter. A calibration antenna is place on top of a tower at the center of the circle, from where an arbitrary calibration signal is transmitted to all antennas.

CGTN invited Professor Stephen C. Maberly from UK Center for Ecology and Hydrology, who is also honored as Visiting Professor for Senior International Scientists of Wuhan Botanical Garden under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to explain why the wetlands are so important

The Pan-Himalayan region, with its vast climate range, is home to 20,000 higher plant species. They account for one-fifteenth of the world's total. However, in what is one of the most geologically unstable regions on the planet, their habitat is under threat. Since 2011, Prof. Hong Deyuan and his colleague Wang Qian from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have been leading a series of international scientific expeditions to the Pan-Himalayan region.

Foreign Experts in Yunnnan: Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz. An elephant expert working in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden.