By: Jonathan O’Callaghan/IFL Science China may have the world’s largest radio telescope in the world, but they’re apparently running into a few problems. Namely, they can’t find someone to run it. Known as the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), China opened this huge dish in September 2016 to study the cosmos. Among its numerous goals, it will be…
Officials Find Traffickers Selling Bags And Bags Of The Saddest Thing
By: Sarah V Schweig/The Dodo What Ivory Coast officials found in bags last week is being called the largest bust of its kind in West Africa. It’s also being called a massacre. An estimated 4,000 pangolins were killed for the scales that traffickers were trying to sell and ship to China, where the scales. There, the scales — which are…
Undercover Investigation Reveals How A Single Chinese Town Is The World’s Largest Hub For Illegal Ivory
By: Josh Davis/IFL Science An undercover investigation has revealed how a single small Chinese town has become the world’s largest hub for illegal ivory trafficking. The anonymous settlement in the backwaters of southern China has silently developed into a major center for smuggling ivory from Africa, with up to 20 criminal gangs now operating in the…
It’s Official. China Is Launching A “War on Pollution”
By: Karla Lant/Futurism China has just launched five “green finance” pilot zones to fund the country’s war on pollution. Each individual zone will focus on a different green financing subtopic based on the strengths and weaknesses of its economy. FINANCING WAR ON POLLUTION China has just launched five “green finance” pilot zones, according to the central bank….
The World’s Largest Floating Solar Plant Is Finally Online
By: Karla Lant/Futurism The world’s largest floating solar power plant is now online in China. Built by Sungrow, a supplier of PV inverter systems, the 40MW plant is now afloat in water 4 to 10 meters deep, and successfully linked to Huainan, China’s grid. The placement was chosen in large part because the area was…
Cruel Man Chains Dog To A Car And Drags Him By The Neck
By: Sylvia Tan/Relay Hero Animal cruelty is sadly especially prominent within modern society – both dog and cat owners alike abuse their own pets, can you imagine? One example is a dog owner in China, who drags his own dog via a long metal chain tied to his truck! Mind you – the truck was DRIVEN by…
Millions Of Seahorses Are Losing Their Mates — Because People Are Killing Them For ‘Medicine’
By: Elizabeth Claire Alberts/The Dodo Gary Stokes is used to seeing animals in dried seafood shops in Hong Kong – fins from dead sharks, dead sea cucumbers, dead starfish. As a conservationist, it all upsets him, but he feels particularly distressed when he sees sacks of dried seahorses. “The traditional Chinese medicine shops are full…