On November 29, Zhang Qiang’s Research Group and Tong Dan’s Research Group of the Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University jointly published a paper titled “Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation on strategic power plant retirements and pollution controls” online in Nature Climate Change, revealing that the health co-benefits of carbon emission reduction in th...
On the afternoon of November 18, US time, the winning team of the Gordon Bell Prize in 2021 was announced at the International Supercomputing Conference (SC21) in St. Louis, Missouri. The Chinese supercomputing team won this honor for its achievement “Closing the Quantum Supremacy Gap: Achieving Real-Time Simulation of a Random Quantum Circuit Using a New Sunway Supercomputer” (SWQSIM). The m...
On November 8, 2021,the Press Conference on the 2021 Lancet China Countdown Report on Health and Climate Change (hereinafter the Report) was held in Beijing. Zeng Rong, Vice President of Tsinghua University, and Gong Peng, Co-chairman of “The Lancet Countdown” and Vice President of the University of Hong Kong, delivered speeches online, and Helena Wang, Executive Editor-in-Chief of The Lance...
On October 21, 2021, the National “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” Scientific and Technological Innovation Achievement Exhibition was held in the Beijing Exhibition Center, which would last until the 27th of the month. Themed “Innovation-Driven Development Towards a Science and Technology Power”, the Achievement Exhibition highlighted the major scientific and technological achievements made by C...
On the afternoon of September 6, the inaugural ceremony of the Class of 2021 graduate students of the Department of Earth System Science was held in 6A205 of the sixth teaching building. Luo Yong, Dean and Secretary of the Party Branch of the Department, Zhang Qiang, Deputy Dean (in charge of teaching) of the Department, Yang Kun, faculty representative, and Lu Hui, Director of the Graduate Stu...
Nature-based solutions are one of the important measures to achieve carbon neutrality. In order to enhance the interdisciplinary cooperation between Department of Earth System Science and Department of Energy and Power Engineering, on the morning of July 6, the relevant teams of Department of Earth System Science and Department of Energy and Power Engineering of Tsinghua University conducted co...
Tropical forests are an important part of global carbon cycle. In the past few decades, they have suffered severe deforestation and forest degradation, leading to forest fragmentation and the formation of a large number of forest edge areas. Forest edge effect refers to the phenomenon that the biomass of the edge of the forest is significantly lower than that of the internal forest due to high ...
In the afternoon of June 25, the 2021 graduate graduation ceremony of Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University was held in the multifunctional hall of the MENG Minwei Science and Technology Building. Professor LUO Yong, Dean of the Department of Earth Sciences, attended the ceremony and delivered a speech. More than 50 people, including all graduates of Department of Earth System...