by admin | Nov 19, 2025
Hong Kong has a long history as a centre of pearl farming, with Tai Po once considered a source of some of the finest pearls in China. But over the past century, pearl farming has fallen by the wayside. The Sino-Japanese war disrupted activity, then post-war Japanese...
by admin | Nov 14, 2024
“Our approach is novel in that we have demonstrated, for the first time, that time-series satellite-based multispectral data is nearly as effective as drone/airborne hyperspectral imaging for high-throughput foliar trait monitoring,” said Professor Wu Jin from the...
by admin | Nov 24, 2023
Carbon-heavy methane ranks high on the climate change blacklist, with a global warming potential that is more than 80 times that of carbon dioxide over a period of 20 years. It is also in abundant supply – the recent global increase in methane (CH4) is primarily...
by admin | May 19, 2023
Jane Zhang Qinya, a fourth-year BA(Linguistics) student, spent much of her first three years at HKU doing online learning due to pandemic restrictions. It could get lonely, so she sought company through online events to connect with others. One of her most fruitful...
by admin | May 18, 2023
The findings have thrown up something of an environmental irony. “Global forests have been gradually shifting to a younger age structure owing to major reasons like deforestation, natural regeneration and human reforestation. As a result, younger trees are playing an...
