SciShorts: China Tasks 60,000 Soldiers with Planting Trees

China is suffering severely from air pollution. To battle the ever-growing production of smog, the country has redirected 60,000 soldiers to plant 84,000 square kilometers of trees. Most of the troops will be sent to the most polluted province in China – Hebei – where the forest coverage is expected to grow to 35 percent […]

SciShorts: China Has Built a Huge Floating Solar Farm

The world’s largest solar farm has just come up in China – with 166,000 panels which will power about 15,000 homes. This solar farm is far from conventional, and is built over a lake that was once a coal mine. This idea of placing solar panels over water allow the solar panels to stay cool. […]

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