Researchers taking part in China’s largest scale scientific expedition in over two decades of Lop Nor - located in southeast Xinjiang Urghur Autonomous Region - found much evidence of extensive farming dating back thousands of years, Guangzhou Daily reported on Wednesday.
Global warming has caused the shrinkage of most glaciers and ice caps in the world over the last century. For a number of glaciers, the rate of shrinkage appears to have accelerated in recent decades, and some of the glaciers are physically disappeared because of melting. This creates issues such as sea level rise and changes in water cycle have drawn a wideattention.
Zhou, who works at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, believed that the extraordinary bone beds in Liaoning might fill in some of the many blanks in the fossil record of the earliest birds.
Noodles, cakes, porridge, and meat bones dating to around 2,500 years ago were recently unearthed at a Chinese cemetery. Gong, a researcher at the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his team dug up the foods at the Subeixi Cemeteries in the Turpan District of Xinjiang, China. This important cultural communication center between East and Central China has a desert climate.
The International Programme Office for the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR-IPO) was inaugurated on November 18, in Beijing. IRDR-IPO will be built into a platform for the disaster risk researchers to participate in international programs and function as an impetus for closer integration and communication between research institutions...
Dr Marinoni's suggestions are corroborated by a study led by Xu Baiqing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, in Beijing. His team drilled cores from the ice of five Tibetan glaciers in order to examine the past few decades’ worth of pollution. These cores show that the level of pollution, especially soot, in Himalayan glaciers correlates with emissions in Europe and South Asia.
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