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Air Pollution in China

July 1, 2016 By Carol Harper

air pollution Chinese woman

Air pollution is said to cut 25 months in the Chinese people life expectancy.

A new report coming from the International Energy Agency shows that the Chinese air pollution can cost its inhabitants more than two years of their lives.

Air Pollution Levels in China

The energy sector is the main responsible for the health threat. The heavy air pollution is said to cut 25 months in a person’s life. Scientists predict that the air pollution in the area is linked to one million deaths each year.

An astonishing 97% of the Chinese population is exposed to toxic concentrations of particulate matter, including ammonia, mineral dust, black carbon, sulfates, nitrates, or sodium chloride. The most dangerous particles are the ones that have a diameter of less than 10 microns.

The organization points out that air pollution can also be found at home. The sources are the use of substandard fossil fuels and burning organic matter during cooking. In China, household pollution kills 1.2 million each year.

The report says that if air pollution is limited, by 2040, the Chinese life expectancy could increase by at least 15 months.

The Chinese officials that implement the climate change strategy say that the policymakers should make sure that the money from the government is correctly used to clean up the air.

A Worldwide Death Threat

All around the world, 6.5 million deaths are associated with air pollution. The quality of air is on the fourth place on the top of health hazards, just after smoking, high blood pressure and dietary practices.

Smoking is by itself a contributor to air pollution. Statistics say that in the last 50 years, more than 2,5 million non-smokers died because of complications resulted from secondhand smoke exposure.

Poor air quality can cause severe asthma attacks and respiratory infections in children. Adults are more vulnerable to heart disease, lung cancer, and stroke.

The report shows that clean air should be considered a fundamental human right. However, most of the population around the world does not benefit from breathing a pure air.

There is no country in the world that can claim that air pollution is over. However, governments are urged to take measures to protect the air quality and to ensure their citizens are less exposed to health issues induced by the lack of clean air.

China has already started to address the problem, ever since Beijing announced red alert in 2015. In February this year, the capital city selected new standards for red alert threshold and decided to implement a pollution control system.

Image Source: Flickr

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: air pollution, Air Pollution in China, Asthma, Beijing, China, life expectancy, lung cancer, red alert, smoking

iPhone No Longer Belongs to just Apple in China

May 4, 2016 By Denise Ehrlich

chine"iphone leather"

First off, I have to start by admitting that I am somewhat biased against Apple. It has nothing to do with their products per se, nor does it have to do with the price range of most of their devices. My problem is with the way the company treats its customers and with the way they always act like they’re entitled to everything.

That, plus the recent scandals during which the company made any mobile device older than iPhone 6 unable to connect to the internet and bricked the phones of anyone who didn’t want to pay upwards of $ 150 to change a button on their phones made me lose even more of my positive views of the company. Still, my bias has nothing to do with the following story.

iPhone vs. IPHONE

The indisputable tech titan just lost one of the most embarrassing lawsuits they could have lost. According to reports and news sites all over the world, iPhone no longer belongs to just Apple in China. Instead, a Chinese company now has the right to make passport holders, handbags, and other leather products and to brand them IPHONE.

The lawsuit started in 2012, as the international tech company filed a lawsuit to order the Chinese company Xintong Tiandi to stop making IPHONE products. It turns out that even though the Chinese company filed the patent in 2007, five years after Apple filed their own, Apple could not prove that the iPhone was a renowned trademark in the country before then.

So, starting with the conclusion of the lawsuit, the Chinese company Xintong Tiandi can make as many leather products as they want, and all of them will be labeled IPHONE. Yeah, the court didn’t really care about the distinction in capitalization, so the company can stylize it however they want.

Chinese Apple

This isn’t the first time Apple has lost a lawsuit in China. In fact, back in 2012, Apple was ordered to pay a Shenzhen tech company $60 million in order to settle a dispute over the iPad name. Take that and combine it with the recent iPhone lawsuit, and we’ve got ourselves some troubled times for the company.

Apple stockholders have been selling their stocks because they are afraid of the Chinese dictatorship, and the company has been bleeding profits and shares for about a year and a half now. Things aren’t looking very good for the company, especially if they keep punishing their user base, and many already believe the company’s future in China at least to be somewhat shaky.

In the meanwhile, you can get all the IPHONE leather products you want by just following the link in the image source description.

Image source: IPHONE Luxury Leather

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Apple, Apple Inc., China, Chinese firm, iPhone, leather, United States

Mice Embryos Develop in Space for the First Time

April 20, 2016 By Waleed Javed

"space mice"

Humanity has dreamt about colonizing space for a very long time. And even though we’re on the right path, it will still take at least a couple of decades until we can realistically achieve something like that. Still, those in charge of preparing us for that momentous event are already setting things up for when we’re ready.

Of course, everything has to go just right, so we need a lot of time preparing for the unexpected and even for the expected. Even the simplest of actions can go wrong in space if not everything is perfectly accounted for. So, performing an experiment to see how it would go, Chinese scientists had mice embryos develop in space for the first time.

China’s SJ-10 satellite

Launched into space of the 6th of April, the SJ-100 Chinese satellite was packed full with a series of experiments. Except for the embryos about which we’re going to talk in a bit, the small bullet-shaped satellite also contained experiments related to microgravity combustion, microgravity fluid physics, space material, space biotechnology, and space radiation effects.

Aside from looking at how space radiation affects the genetic stability of rat cells and fruit flies, the Chinese team will also test how materials generally used in spacecrafts burn in space so that they can come up with better protection. Of course, the most important experiment was the one involving the mouse embryos.

The satellite will attempt landing sometime next week in a designated spot in Siziwang Banner in Inner Mongolia, somewhat late considering its reported 15-day life span. In case of the landing going wrong, a team will lead four helicopters to help ground vehicles search for the spacecraft after it lands.

Mammal embryos in space

Now that we have the technical specs out of the way, let’s talk about mouse embryos. About 6,000 were sent up in the satellite inside an enclosed, self-sufficient chamber the size of a microwave oven, and about 600 of them had a high-resolution camera aimed directly at them.

Of course, support systems inside were installed in order to provide the embryos with the necessary nutrients for proper development, and the cameras took footage of them every four hours. The team was impressed to see the experiment succeed, with the initial two-cell embryos developing into fully grown blastocysts over the course of eighty hours in space.

This is the first time that a mammal embryo was shown to be able to develop normally in space, making this a very significant breakthrough in the field. Of course, the embryos will be further analyzed upon their return to Earth, and if the scientists manage to get their way and the blastocysts survive the landing, they will even implant some into female rats, having them give birth to the first animals basically conceived in space.

Image source: Wikimedia

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: China, chinese, experiment, International Space Station, Journal Science, Milky Way Galaxy, space, study

Strange 50 feet long Neck “Dragon” Dinosaur Discovered in China

January 31, 2015 By Marlene R. Litten

long neck dinosaur

Canadian Paleontologists of the University of Alberta discovered a new long neck dinosaur from Central China.

Phillip Currie, head of the research team informs that the specie has a 25 feet long neck which is half of its entire body length. It belongs to the late Jurassic era, that indicates it is approximately 160 million years old.

In 2006, Local Farmers of Qinjijan uncovered the skeleton of the huge dinosaur. They were digging for a fish pond when they came across the enormous dinosaur.

Lida Xing, member of the research group sheds light on the latest findings. She reveals that Qijianlong is the name given to the new specie. It was selected because farmers believed that the skeleton is quite similar to one of the Chinese mythical dragons.

Additionally, scientists accepted the fact that there are numerous other long necked dinosaurs. They usually have a neck which is 30 percent equal to its body. However, recently uncovered dinosaur contains a neck of almost 50 percent of its body.

Surprisingly, the head of the dinosaur is still attached to its body. Tesuto Miyashita, doctoral student at University of Alberta states that it is unusual to discover a head and neck connected to its body.  Generally, the head of dinosaur is can be effortlessly separated.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: China, Dinosaur, Dragon, long neck dinosaur, University of Alberta

50 feet Long Neck dinosaur Uncovered From China

January 30, 2015 By Carol Harper

long neck dinosaur

Recently, a group of paleontologists uncovered a strange kind of dinosaur with long neck.  Researchers observed that the newly discovered dinosaur is nearly 50 feet long. The distance between its neck and shoulder is approximately 6 to 9 feet.

Scientists believe that the newly discovered dinosaur belongs to the Jurassic era of dinosaurs. Hence, it is expected to be nearly 160 million years old

Local farmers of Qijiang were the first one to unearth the skeleton of long dinosaur.  They came across the fossilized bones of the dinosaur during a construction. Therefore, scientists named it as Qijianglong guokr which means “dragon of Quijiang”.

Tstsuto Muyashita, a doctoral member of the University of Alberta talked about the discovery. He states that this kind of long neck is extremely useful for feeding purposes. It allows dinosaurs to get their food without any additional movement. However, the only major issue for them is balancing. The Qijianglang effortlessly dealt with this problem with the help of its light weight neck.  There is a special kind of air-filled space inside the neck which prevents the thickness of bones.

Additionally, Miyashita informs that this form of air- filled space is also found in birds. It keeps control on the weight of the neck skeleton.

The discovery is printed in detail in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: China, Dragon, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Jurassic, long neck dinosaur, Qijianglang

China looking to mine the moon for the rare helium isotope

January 13, 2015 By Denise Ehrlich

china-mine-to-moon

China’s unmanned test lunar orbit successfully entered lunar orbit, state media reported.

The craft named Chang’e 5 is designed for a soft landing on the moon and collect at least 2kg (4 lbs) of soil and rock sample before returning home.

Completing such a task would include china in the streak after US and Russia that have accomplished such a feat.

China is looking for a rare helium isotope that researchers believe would mitigate the World’s demand for energy in the future, as per Times report.

The chief scientist of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, Professor Ouyang Ziyuan said that the moon is “highly rich” in helium 3, that could “solve humanity’s energy demand for around 10,000 years at least.”

Due to the light and non-radioactive nature of the isotope, Helium 3 can be used in power fusion plants, scientists claimed. Using Helium 3 in nuclear fusion reactor plants would provide highly efficient form of nuclear power with apparently negligible radiations and no waste.

According to a lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering at the Imperial College in London, Matthew Genge :”Nuclear fusion using helium-3 would be cleaner, as it does not produce any spare neutrons. It should produce vastly more energy than fission reactions without the problem of excessive amounts of radioactive waste.”

Keeping the current rate of energy consumption of US, just 40 tons of Helium-3 would be enough to empower US for a year.

The specific atmosphere and magnetic environment of Earth it makes Helium-3 very rare and prevents any of the solar helium 3 from arriving on the surface.

The orbiter, which flew back to Earth in November, was loaded with support systems for operating a spaceship. It will collect further data to aid planning of the 2017 Chang’e 5 mission, state broadcaster China Central Television said.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Chang'e 5, China, energy crisis, Helium-3, lunar craft, moon, power generation, test, unmanned

Activision Rolled out a New Title “Call of Duty” Especially For China

January 13, 2015 By Andreas Petersen

Call of Duty in China

Call of Duty, first person and third person shooter game of Activision has officially launched in China.  The well known video game publisher gives an opportunity to Chinese gamers to join their counterparts all around the globe.

The Activision informed that first to play free person game has already passed private beta testing phase.  The game has now entered into public testing stage. The game publisher rolled out the game in the PC platform for Chinese gamers.

A few critics are extremely amazed with this step of Activision. However, they are not aware of the fact that China is considered as the largest video game market of the world. The number of Chinese video game players is more than the entire population of the United States. Currently, there are around 368 million active video gamers in China. Hence, it is extremely beneficial for all the video game publishers to make a remarkable place in Chinese market.

Therefore, Activision rolled out an exclusive title in China. The game publisher collaborated with Tencent in order to develop a new title for video game players of China. The new title will definitely generate billion dollars for the company.

Moreover, Activision and Tencent released a special kind of short action sequence for the Chinese market.  The sequence shows Chris Evans is controlling a group of local gamer for a mission of Call of Duty.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Activision, Call of Duty, China, new title, Tencent

Gmail Access Partly Restored In China

December 30, 2014 By June Harris

gmail-access-restored-in-China

Gmail access is partly restored in China, as per a few reports and also Google’s own concurrent traffic graphs. The knock in traffic follows a multi-day collapse that started just after Christmas, which saw Gmail clients obstructed from utilizing a workaround that permitted them to download their messages through third-party applications like Apple Mail and Microsoft Outlook which utilize POP, SMAP and IMAP. The most recent outage seemed to have shut that last loophole, blocking Gmail completely in the state.

The only way for organizations and individuals to get around China’s web restriction is to utilize a Virtual Private Network (VPN) that permits unhindered access to blocked websites and services.

Today, though, a few clients on Twitter are saying access has been restored. In the meantime, Chinese state-run media is blaming Google, saying it could have been the cause behind the transitory blockage. The English edition of China’s Global Times said the anomaly fueled “superfluous rumor,” noting that “we have to have confidence that China has its own particular rationale regarding Internet approach and it is made and runs as per the nation’s principal interests.”

The paper proceeded, “if the China side certainly blocked Gmail, the verdict must have been provoked by recently risen security reasons. If that is the situation, Gmail clients need to acknowledge the truth of Gmail being suspended in China. However, we anticipate it is not the situation.”

At the time of our report on the blockage recently, a Google representative for Asia said “we’ve checked and there’s nothing wrong on our end.”

We approached Google for an overhaul on the blockage and affirmation of the restored access early today, and the organization said, again, that there was never anything officially wrong on its side.

The recovery of service doesn’t have all the earmarks of being finished as of the time of writing. The traffic is mountaineering once more, yet is not close to the prior levels seen before the Christmas blockage. A few clients are reporting having access again, while others say they don’t. One client on Twitter noted they had access for a couple of hours last night however now have none.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Access partly restored, Apple Mail, China, Gmail, Imap, Microsoft Outlook, POP, SMAP, Virtual Private Network, VPN

Google’s Gmail Service Blocked In China

December 29, 2014 By Cliff Jenkins Scott

A woman looks at her smartphone in Shanghai

Google’s Gmail was blocked in China after months of interruptions to the world’s greatest email service, with an anti-censorship advocate proposing the nation’s “great firewall” was at fault.

A lot of Gmail web addresses were cut off in China on Friday, as per Greatfire.org, a China-based freedom of speech advocacy group. Clients said the service was still down on Monday.

“I think the legislature is simply attempting to further purge with Google’s presence in China and even debilitate its market abroad,” said a member of the group who utilizes an alias. “Envision if Gmail clients may not devour to Chinese customers. Numerous individuals outside China may be compelled to switch away from Gmail.”

Google’s Transparency Report, which demonstrates real-time traffic to Google services, showed a sharp dropoff in traffic to Gmail from China on Friday.

“We’ve checked and there’s nothing wrong on our end,” a Singapore-based representative for Google said in an email.

Just about the majority of Google’s services have been intensely upset in China since June, however until last week Gmail clients could still access emails downloaded using techniques like Imap, SMTP and Pop3 that let people talk utilizing Gmail on applications like the Apple iPhone’s Mail and Microsoft Outlook.

China keeps up tight control over the web, nippy to act against any indications of rebel or difficulties to the ruling Communist party’s headship.

The nation has the world’s most complex internet censorship apparatus, known as the “great firewall of China”. Commentators say China has intensified its interference of foreign online services like Google over the previous year to make an internet cut off from the rest of the world.

The disruption of Google started in the runup to the 25th commemoration of the legislature’s ridiculous crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in June 1989.

Gmail’s blockage could make email correspondence troublesome for organizations working in China that utilize Google’s Gmail for their corporate email framework, said Greatfire.

Hua Chunying, Chinese foreign ministry representative said she didn’t know anything about Gmail being blocked, including that the governement was dedicated on giving a decent business environment to foreign investors.

“China has always had a friendly and encouraging stance towards foreign investors doing lawful business here,” she said. “We will give an open, translucent and great environment for foreign organizations in China.”

One famous mode for organizations and individuals to get around China’s web restriction is to utilize a Virtual Private Network (VPN) that permits unhindered access to blocked websites and services.

“It’s getting hard to connect and do work in China when services like Gmail are generally blocked,” said Zach Smith, a Beijing-based computerized items administrator at City Weekend magazine. “Utilizing a VPN appears to be the only solution to do anything online in China.”

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: China, Gmail, great firewall, Greatfire.org, Imap, Microsoft Outlook, Pop3, SMTP, Virtual Private Network, VPN, Zach Smith

2014 was another fruitless year in the fight against Global Climate Change

December 29, 2014 By Denise Ehrlich

2014-fruitless-year-global-climate-change

2014 was another disappointing year in terms of major changes needed to avert Global Climate Change. Even though Climatists had redoubled their efforts in order to convince the general public that immediate measures are required to stop the dangers of global warming. But the gap between the general public warnings and actual events lead mostly to climate mockery.

Much of January and December experienced severe cold and record low daily temperatures were recorded in many cities, coupled with all-time seasonal snowfalls as well. Once called a cold snap was now termed as polar vortex.
John Holdren, chief advisor to the President, said in a White House video release:” But a growing body of evidence suggests that the kind of extreme cold being experienced by much of the United States as we speak is a pattern that we can expect to see with increasing frequency as global warming continues.”

Research ship passengers were also rescued in January. The ship had been locked in ice for 10 days near the arctic coast. It was carrying out research to study how the Antarctica weather was changing due to the effects of global warming.

United Nations released a report on Climate Change in March. Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability was part of the Fifth Assessment Report. The report claimed that the man-made climatic change was going to severely the reduce world agricultural output. One of the authors Dr. Mark Howden said in the report, “There’s an increasing set of evidence that climatic change is also having a severe adverse effect on agriculture, especially on some of the cereal crops such as wheat and maize. The negative impacts are far graver and quicker than we previously thought.”

While farmers still ignored warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, and according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, farmers worldwide have made record yields in 2014 especially for all three major cereal crops. Rice rose to 1.1 % from last year while wheat generated 11.2 % but corn was at the top settling at 14 % more since last year.

The Obama administration continued to put an end to coal based power plants which almost cater to 40 % of the United States electricity needs. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had proposed new restrictions on carbon emissions in June that would almost certainly make it impossible to install new coal based power plants in the U.S. While, 1,200 of these plants were planned to be constructed around the world during the same time and almost two-third of them being in India and China alone.

We all remember the Nobel Prize acceptance speech made by former Vice President Al Gore in 2007, in which he warned that the arctic ice would be gone in as less than 7 years. But actually the arctic ice has rebounded in 2014 and Antarctic ice has been increasing for decades, and according to University of Illinois, global sea ice are above the 30 year average at the end of 2014.

United Nations held a climate summit in New York in September in order to convince the world to conserve energy and reduce their emissions. The much celebrated actor, Leonardo DiCaprio was the spokesperson and he said:, ”This disaster has grown so much in recent years that it’s going beyond the choices that we as individuals make, so we need to act fast in order to curtail it.”

Those who are against the notion of Global Warming and Climate change, said in October that it’s the eighteenth straight year of flat global temperatures and satellite data has shown that no temperature increase has occurred since 1997. This pause in Global Warming is now old enough to vote or serve in the military.
While many climate change advocates state that much of the recent increase in Hurricanes and Tornadoes are signs of changing climatic conditions, but skeptics overruled that the U.S. tornadic activity was less in 2014 and lack of strong hurricanes still continues. It’s been eight years since the last category 3 or stronger hurricane has made it to the U.S., that’s the longest period ever since records began way back in 1900.

Filed Under: Science, United States Tagged With: adaptation, and Vulnerability, Antarctic Ice, Antarctica, Arctic Ice, China, Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Coal Based Power Plants, Fifth Assessment Report, Global Climate Change, Global warming, India, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, John Holdren chief advisor to President Obama, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA, United Nations, Vice President Al Gore

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