On May 20, Professor YANG Jun from the Department of Earth System Science of Tsinghua University accepted an interview from Beijing TV Station and expressed his opinions on the changes in Beijing's biodiversity over the years. He talked about investigating the urban area of Beijing while working on his doctoral dissertation in 2002. A total of 78 tree species were found in more than 200 plots w...
“In the aspect of managing air pollution, research group of Tsinghua University have never been absent from any important national event.” On May 7, HE Kebin, the academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and professor of School of Environment, Tsinghua University, said while exclusively interviewed by media including Science Daily, in key battles including air quality assurance for Beij...
Recently, the research group of Professor Qiang Zhang from the Department of Earth System Science (DESS) of Tsinghua University and the research group of Academician Kebin He of the School of Environment jointly published an online publication titled “Pathways of China's PM2.5 air quality 2015-2060 in the context of carbon neutrality” in the “National Science Review”, for the first time qua...
April 22 is the 52ndWorld Earth Day. Department of Earth System Science (DESS) of Tsinghua University held a special lecture on the cloud, inviting Professor GUAN Dabo to make a report on"New Opportunities and Challenges for Global Climate Change Emissions Reduction in the Post-Epidemic Era"to help promote the concept of "cherish the earth, harmonious coexistence between man and nature", and en...
In September 2020, President XI Jinping proposed at the general debate of the 75th United Nations General Assembly that China will increase its national intensity of autonomous contributions, adopt more powerful policies and measures, strive to reach peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Countries should establish new development concept of innovation, coo...
On March 11, 2021, Professor Peng Gong’s group published a new research paper titled " Production of global daily seamless data cubes and quantification of global land cover change from 1985 to 2020 - iMap World 1.0” in Remote Sensing of Environment (Impact Factor: 9.085).
In recent years, the frequency and scale of forest fires worldwide have been increasing and expanding.
On December 2, Professor Zhang Qiang's research group from the Department of Earth System Science (DESS) of Tsinghua University published a paper. This thesis constructed a high-temporal-resolution dynamic inversion technology for carbon emissions that combines satellite remote sensing observations and bottom-up emission source information, and based on this, quantified China’s CO₂ emissions ...