China has made significant progress in forest fire prevention. Forest fires have decreased significantly since 2000. "Considering China's vast forested area of 220 million hectares, these achievements make significant contributions to global CO2 reduction," said a Chinese expert. (Xinhua)
Changes in climate, especially a rising temperature and reduced precipitation, will influence the ecological stability in desert regions, according to the latest research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
To understand and predict regional scale or even local scale climate extremes is a great challenge not only because they are rare but also because they are sometime, if not often, non-Gaussian distribution. Two approaches for statistical prediction/downscaling of non-Gaussian climate extremes were proposed
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