Sanjiangyuan, an area of China's Northwestern Qinghai province, contains the headwaters of three great rivers of Asia: the Yellow, the Yangtze, and the Mekong, Feb 27, 2018. [Photo/VCG] XINING - China has established a research institute for national parks in the city of Xining, the capital of Northwestern Qinghai province. The institute, believed to be the country's first of the kind, will focus its research on issues including biodiversity conservation, bearing capacity of the ecological environment and sustainable use of biological resources, in addition to developing key disciplines such as conservation biology, resource biology and restorable ecology. The institute aims to build a system for monitoring and assessing the ecologic environment and providing early warnings against potential ecological risks. It also plans to build a display platform powered by big data and cloud computing for scientific research and science popularization. The institute, run by a board of directors and led by a director, was co-founded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Qinghai provincial government. The institute will provide scientific guidance and services for Sanjiangyuan national park, in a bid to realize the coordinated development of ecological protection and regional economy, said Zhao Xinquan, the academic director of the institute. The national park in Sanjiangyuan, which literally means the source of three rivers, was established to protect the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang (Mekong) rivers. wristbands canadacustom silicone bracelets canadarubber bracelets canadasilicone bracelets canadasilicone wristbands canadacustom wristbands canadacanadian wristbandswristbands canada
Cracked ground is seen after a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake, in Hela, Papua New Guinea February 26, 2018 in this picture obtained from social media. [Photo/Agencies] SYDNEY - A 6.0-magnitude earthquake has struck 111 km southwest of Porgera in Papua New Guinea on Monday, according to the US Geological Survey. The tremor has followed on from a series of large aftershocks which have ravaged the Southern Highlands region after a powerful 7.5-magnitude quake hit the area on Feb 25. The latest tremor, which occurred at 1956 GMT Sunday, was initially determined to be at 6.307 degrees south latitude and 142.620 degrees east longitude at a depth of 10 km. According to the Red Cross, although the area has no major urban centers, around 670,000 people live within 100 km of the epicenter. We haven't slept. It's been shaking all through the night, said provincial administrator of Hela Province William Bando, who was 40 km away from the epicenter. What we experienced this morning could have caused more damage, but we don't know ... it almost threw me out of bed. Latest reports estimated that at least 31 people have been killed since the in initial tremor and aid agencies said that 150,000 people still remain in urgent need of supplies near the townships of Mendi and Tari. Emergency deliveries have been hampered due to landslides, damaged roads, collapsed buildings and the remote location of the area. Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has declared a state of emergency.
