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...
2021 Tsinghua University faculty basketball game kicked off in midsummer June. The basketball team composed of 14 teachers and employees from Department of Earth System Science participated for the competition for the first time. The basketball team of Department of Earth System Science was distributed to Group C of the first group, and played against the School of Aerospace Engineering, School...
Dear graduates, mentors, friends and relatives: good afternoon, everyone! First of all, on behalf of Department of Earth System Science, I would like to extend my warm congratulations to the doctoral and master students who graduated from 2020 to June 2021! You are the protagonist and star today! I would also like to extend my heartfelt thanks to the faculty and staff of Department of Earth Sy...