A research team led by Profs. CHEN Wei and WEI Wei from the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute reported a novel method that enables efficient CO₂ electroreduction to CO by virtue of low-coordination chloride ion adsorption on a silver hollow fiber electrode.

An international research group led by Prof. FU Bojie from the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences has now quantified China's natural climate solutions and their contribution to climate change mitigation.

Prof. WANG Peng and assistant researcher LU Jiayu from the Institute of Applied Ecology have recently quantified the rhizosphere priming effects of four perennial herbs in a non-growing season, that is, after leaf senescence and before shoot regrowth.

Grasslands have the capability to store carbon, functioning as an important tool in a battle against climate change. While scientific interest in grassland soil for carbon sequestration is not new, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Colorado State University have provided a fresh analysis of the existing research on soil carbon sequestration in grasslands.

China has received data from its newly launched terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring satellite, scientists in charge of receiving the satellite data said. The satellite was carried into space on Thursday by a Long March-4B rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province.

A research team led by Profs. WEI Wei and CHEN Wei from the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute have reported a hierarchical micro/nanostructured silver hollow-fiber electrode to boost carbon dioxide electroreduction.

A research team led by Prof. HU Chunxiang from the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences explored the community-based carbon cycle overall patterns and successional variation in biocrusts.

A research group led by Prof. LIU Yi from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics wrote a call to action for humans to focus on quantifying urban CO₂ emissions using top-down methods.

Increased use of trees in agriculture can lead the way towards a transformation of the global food system, according to a new study released in May. Scientists have found that even small incremental increases in global tree cover on agricultural land could provide short-term respite to carbon accumulation in the atmosphere, benefiting the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, biodiversity, ecosystems, and ecosystem services.

Extreme weather events caused by global warming can bring unexpected snow, frost and ice on the surfaces of renewable energy devices, such as photovoltaic (PV) panels and wind turbine blades. To tackle this problem, LI Longnan from Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and his co-workers from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed a multifunctional coating material to remove snow, frost and ice from surfaces by using “Pulsed Joule Heating” method. This method involves pulsed interfacial Joule heating through thin conductive film, integrated with controlled surface wettability to achieve interfacial defrosting without bulk melting.

A research group led by the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,found that the production of feed used to nourish the fish is one of the most significant contributors to the industry's GHG emissions.

IAP researchers and their collaborators developed a solar energy nowcasting system based on Fengyun-4 satellite, which has great potential to promote photovoltaic energy systems development.