As AI models grow bigger and data centers beome more energy-intensive, China faces a critical question: How can this digital boom align with its clean energy goals? In this episode, Fei Fei visits a data center in Guizhou, a pivotal hub in China’s digital network. She also explores how data centers—often seen as energy guzzlers—might evolve into key players in a flexible, renewable-powered grid. From repurposing server heat to shifting computing loads to match solar and wind output, we look at big ideas from Associate Professor Wang Yongzhen of the Beijing Institute of Technology.

What happens after planting millions of trees? In this episode, Fei Fei speaks with Lei Xiangdong from the Chinese Academy of Forestry about what effective forest management really means- and why it's about much more than tree-planting. This episode explores how China's approach has evolved over decades, what the "four treasures" of forests are and how today's focus is shirting toward forest quality, biodiversity and long-term resilience. Tune in to learn how managing forests widely is just as important as planting them.

How China fights desertification: https://radio.cgtn.com/podcast/news/5/How-China-fights-desertification/2714141

AI is working as a catalyst and bringing unprecedented transformation to different industries. In this episode, Fei Fei spoke with Xiao Ma, professor of Entrepreneurship and Management at Nottingham Business School, about how AI technologies are empowering different industries and assisting them in contributing to climate and sustainability goals. We also discuss the potential ways to optimize and maximize the use of AI technologies and how personal data can also contribute to sustainability.

The world produces over 400 million metric tons of plastics each year. Annually, an estimated 11 million tonnes, equivalent to the weight of roughly 2,200 Eiffel Towers, end up polluting lakes, rivers, and oceans. At the same time, plastic pollution is exacerbating the crisis of climate change globally. In this episode, Zhou Fang spoke with Zhang Yimo, a blue-economy project coordinator from WWF, about some of the effective solutions at hand.

Pacific island nations are among the most vulnerable in the world to climate change, facing rising seas, stronger storms, and the real threat of losing their land. In this episode, Fei Fei speaks with Professor Patrick Nunn, a geographer and climate expert with the University of the Sunshine Coast, about what meaningful support looks like for these island communities. From migration plans to resilient infrastructure, and from foreign aid to indigenous knowledge, we explore how Pacific nations are fighting to survive—and thrive—in a warming world. What does good help really mean? And who’s stepping up to provide it?

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's recent visit to China spotlighted climate cooperation and clean technology. As the two countries go ahead with their climate cooperation, along with Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) , they also vowed to uphold multilateralism. In this episode, Fei Fei digs into why multilateralism took center stage this week in China-Brazil partnership and China-CELAC relations. What does this mean for global climate governance? Our guest this week is global governance expert Xu Feibiao. He is the director of the Center for BRICS and G20 Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations.

In a time of global uncertainty, it can feel harder than ever to unite communities around urgent issues like climate change. For scholars Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim of Yale University, the answers may lie in the past. Drawing on spiritual and ethical traditions from across cultures, they believe that humanity's relationship with nature must be guided by values as much as science. From the thoughts of Confucius to Indigenous ecological wisdom, they explore how religious worldviews can inspire more compassionate and sustainable action today. This is the second episode of Climate Watch’s collaboration with Beyond Climate Dialogue at Peking University.

Part 1: https://radio.cgtn.com/podcast/news/5/Looking-back-to-move-forward-what-ancient-wisdom-can-teach-us-about-climate-action-Part-1/2715521

In a time of global uncertainty, it can feel harder than ever to unite communities around urgent issues like climate change. For scholars Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim of Yale University, the answers may lie in the past. Drawing on spiritual and ethical traditions from across cultures, they believe that humanity's relationship with nature must be guided by values as much as science. From the thoughts of Confucius to Indigenous ecological wisdom, they explore how religious worldviews can inspire more compassionate and sustainable action today. This is the second episode of Climate Watch’s collaboration with Beyond Climate Dialogue at Peking University.

More on their project: https://www.journeyoftheuniverse.org/