With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, mankind has stepped into an era featured by heavy reliance on fossil fuels, concomitant with which has been the emission of massive exhaust gas. Carbonyl sulfide (COS), a key intermediate of the atmospheric sulfur cycle and the most abundant sulfur-containing gas in the troposphere, causes haze, acid rain, and ozonosphere damage, and is also a one-carbon (C1) heterocumulene and structural analog of carbon dioxide (CO2).The research team led by ZHANG ...

Credit: Asian Development BankSince the advent of the Industrial Revolution, human activities have accelerated the consumption of fossil fuels and deforestation, thereby contributing to a significant atmospheric change.Intimately related to that are global warming, rising sea levels, reduction in biodiversity and frequent occurrences of extreme climates. At present, scientists are more fully aware that climate change may well exert a potential and unpredictable impact on the ecological system th...

With the rapid development of modern intensive agriculture and its reliance on high-yielding and genetically uniform varieties, many traditional agricultural systems have been progressively abandoned, resulting in the loss of local genetic resources and indigenous technical knowledge. How to preserve heritage resources in the agricultural system has captured immense attention globally.A research team led by Professor CHEN Xin and Dr. TANG Jianjun at ZJU’s College of Life Sciences have foun...