Brown carbon aerosols and their radiative forcing have been the focus of climate change research in recent years, and biomass combustion is an important source of brown carbon aerosols. During the dry season in Chiang Mai, Thailand (usually from February to April), there are frequent mountain fires, intensive agricultural burning activities, vigorous biomass burning, and a large amount of brown...
Terraced fields are widely distributed in our country and have been an important carrier of agricultural production for thousands of years. In recent years, in order to more effectively prevent and control soil erosion, promote the restoration of national soil ecology and comprehensive land consolidation, the project of changing slopes into terraces has been developed, constructed and applied o...
They are committed to the study of mangroves.They have been out in the wild for a long time, facing unexpected dangers frequently.Although they did not work on the first-team of mangrove restoration work, they provided data support for scientifically and rationally promoting the restoration of mangrove wetland ecosystems.They are students in the research group of Professor LIN Guanghui, Departm...
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...