Chinese lawmakers Saturday voted to adopt a Yangtze River conservation law at a Standing Committee session of the National People’s Congress, the country’s top legislature. The law, China’s first legislation on a specific river basin, will take effect on March 1, 2021.
A new species of Deinostigma (Gesneriaceae) from Yunnan, China, Deinostigma fasciculatum 簇花奇柱苣苔 W.H.Chen & Y.M.Shui, sp. nov., has been discovered and described.
金平分水岭国家级自然保护区发现了野牡丹科异药花属的一个新物种, 科学家们详细描述了该物种的形态、生长环境等，并基于ITS序列对其进行了系统发育分析。该物种具四数花和8个二型雄蕊，药隔基部鼓起但无距。上述形态特征及系统发育分析结果皆显示，这种植物为野牡丹科异药花属的成员。形态观察及比较显示，该种植物的叶片生于植株基部，茎短但具明显的节间，叶柄被长柔毛，无翅，具伞形花序，不同于异药花属所有已知物种的性状组合，因此认为它代表了一个未被描述的物种，遂取名金平异药花。
Nepal and China, the two countries that share a border on Mount Everest, announced a new official measurement of the mountain’s height on Tuesday: 8,848.86 meters, or 29,031.69 feet.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/27/bird-flu-fears-grow-after-spate-of-mysterious-uk-swan-deaths A spate of baffling swan deaths is strongly suspected to be caused by a virulent new strain of avian flu sweeping across Britain.
Dying swans were found spinning in circles and discharging blood from their nostrils on Ulverston canal, Cumbria. Swan rescuers have taken in more than 25 dying birds in Worcestershire and nine swans were found dead in Stanley Park, Blackpool. Postmortem examinations have confirmed that six black swans and cygnets that died in Dawlish, Devon, had contracted the latest strain of bird flu, H5N8.
