The China's Arctic Expedition from June 1999--September 1999 conducted by Chinese scientists covered nearly all relevant scientific fields, including the ocean, biological species, the atmosphere ...

Beijing outlined its plans to play a growing role in the far north in a 2018 white paper which described China as a "near-Arctic state". In April 2023, China and Russia signed a memorandum of ...

Commercial, strategic, and scientific motivations drive China’s growing interests in the Arctic. Russia, an Arctic power, has simultaneously been a reluctant partner and competitor to China in the ...

China’s Coast Guard claimed it entered waters of the Arctic Ocean for the first time as part of a joint patrol with Russia – ...

China's largest desert is now encircled by thousands of trees. The forest currently stretches over about 2,000 miles around the Taklamakan desert in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang.

The desert begins just a few kilometers from the ... On average, there are 280 days of sunshine per year in the region, Wang explains. China wants to move away from fossil fuels The planned ...

Things in the Arctic have never been hotter ... The following month, Russia and China sent patrol boats through icy waters of the high north.

At 13,000 tons, the U.S. Coast Guard’s Polar Star is a mammoth vessel made to crash through Arctic ice more than ... have fallen far behind Russia, and China is rapidly gaining ground with ...