The ongoing UN 2023 Water Conference in New York, the first UN conference on water of its kind since 1977, is highlighting the global water crisis where billions are affected. The crisis has been exacerbated by climate change, as disrupted water cycles cause irregular droughts and floods. Chinese scientists at the conference say their latest findings show weak points in the global water system but also offer some remedies.

BEIJING, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have discovered that biomass-burning emissions are one of the key factors causing the increase of global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations and significantly impact global climate change.

China is intensifying its efforts nationwide to make the country greener with a variety of afforestation activities involving both public and private sectors. The country's forest coverage rate rose to 24.02 percent in 2022, according to a report from the National Greening Commission on Feb. 12, 2023.

BEIJING, March 2 (Xinhua) -- In the office of remote sensing scientist Liu Shaochuang, there is a huge photograph of a camel he snapped a decade ago in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Wearing camouflage clothing, he crouched for hours by a pool of water in the Gobi Desert to capture an image of the wild animal. This is the subject of his research.

Following two magnitude 7.8 earthquakes that struck southern Turkey and western Syria on Feb. 6, China GEO Secretariat activated its Collaborated network on Disaster Data Response (CDDR) mechanism to provide high-resolution satellite imagery in support of the disaster response.

Mr. Csaba Korosi, president of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly made the remarks when visiting the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals in Beijing on 2 February 2023 during his four-day tour to China. The Center was founded in 2021 and hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to monitor scientific indicators for sustainable development goals (SDGs).