In a new study, researchers from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted a global-scale assessment of methane emissions from mangrove tree stems. They also developed a comprehensive database of these emissions to date. 

A research team led by Prof. LIU Juxiu at the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has conducted a decade-long study that uncovered a previously unrecognized buffering mechanism in subtropical forest soils mitigating the effects of climate warming.

Grassland degradation fundamentally reshapes how biodiversity supports ecosystem multifunctionality, shifting it from being plant-dominated to being mediated by soil microbes, according to a new study led by Prof. YANG Yuanhe from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS).

A research team from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) has found that lunar soil samples brought back by China's Chang'e-6 mission (collected from the lunar farside) contain high concentrations of OH/H₂O and low deuterium-to-hydrogen (D/H) ratios. These characteristics align with lunar water originating from the solar wind, the team noted.

The High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) of  the Institute of Modern Physics, one of China's major scientific and technological infrastructure projects, successfully completed commissioning with beam on October 28, marking a crucial milestone in its construction.

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made progress in studying the Shibantan Biota in Yichang, Hubei Province, uncovering the oldest known complex three-dimensional burrow systems to date. Preserved in approximately 550-million-year-old strata, these trace fossils show that complex animal behaviors were modifying the seafloor environment nearly 10 million years earlier than previously thought.

A team of Chinese scientists has uncovered a hidden 3D structure in rice DNA that allows the crop to grow more grain while using less nitrogen fertilizer. The finding, published in Nature Genetics by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Oct. 29, could guide the next "green revolution" toward higher yields and more sustainable farming.