An aerial drone photo taken on July 7, 2025 shows people exercising at a park in Pingliang City, northwest China's Gansu ...

Background and Aims Climate change may significantly impact crop yields and soil. In this study the DNDC model, together with climatic outputs from Hadley Centre's general circulation model (HadCM3), ...

During a windstorm on China's Loess Plateau, geoscientist Fulong Cai uses a plastic bag as a wind sock to show that the wind blows parallel to the linear ridge he and Wang Zhao are standing on. Roads ...

Kai Schwärzel receives funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). For the first time, China has hosted a major global event on desertification and land degradation, the Cop-13, United Nations ...

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 ...

Enter the Cangjie Temple in Baishui county, Weinan, northwest China's Shaanxi province, and an imposing cypress immediately ...

Just 90 minutes by road from Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu, lies the Liujiaxia Reservoir in Yongjing in Linxia Hui autonomous ...

The East Asian summer monsoon and desertification in Eurasia is driven by fluctuating Northern Hemisphere ice volume and global sea level during the Ice Age, as shown in a study published in Nature ...