A new high-resolution climate study from China’s Loess Plateau suggests that soil temperature, not just air temperature or ...

Spectacular scenery of terraced fields on the loess plateau in Pengyang, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, May 5, 2024. Photo: China News Service Spectacular scenery of terraced fields ...

NEW YORK, December 2, 2008 – A film documenting an environmental rehabilitation project in Western China illustrates China's ability to restore some of its most devastated landscapes—and serves as a ...

China's Loess Plateau was formed by wind alternately depositing dust or removing dust over the last 2.6 million years, according to a new report from University of Arizona geoscientists. The study is ...

Central China's Loess Plateau was mostly covered by grass for the past 20,000 years - not forest as popularly believed - mainland scientists say, warning that an ambitious government tree-planting ...

XIAN, China, Sept. 1 (UPI) --New research suggests China's Loess Plateau, the largest dust deposit in the world, was formed by the winds blowing across the Mu Us Desert -- like a leaf blower piles ...

This article series explores 12 distinct “regions” within China: six “core” regions long dominated by the majority Han ethnic group and six “periphery” regions home to many of China’s ethnic ...

The ancient highland area in north-central China has been dubbed the “cradle of Chinese civilization”. The moniker owes to it being the source of the Yellow River, the country’s second longest natural ...

China's Loess Plateau was formed by wind alternately depositing dust or removing dust over the last 2.6 million years. The new study is the first to explain how the steep-fronted plateau formed: wind ...