LANZHOU, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese archaeologists have discovered ... a large settlement from 5,000 years ago in the western Loess Plateau, highlighting the early social development and ...

The area characterized by Pisha sandstone is often termed "the most extreme case of water loss and soil erosion globally", earning the ominous moniker of "earth cancer" from local residents and ...

Editor's note: China Daily is publishing a series illustrating ... the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River and the Loess Plateau, undergoes significant erosion from wind and rainfall.

Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring ... nestled among the mountains and scattered across the valleys of the Loess Plateau. As Xi walked with the villagers from the entrance into the heart ...

The average ΣREE, LREE, and HREE values were close to those of the Chinese Loess Plateau loess and Tengger Desert, higher than those of UCC, and lower than those of other loess and deserts in this ...

1 College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, ...

It provides a clearer picture of how ancient communities adapted to the western Loess Plateau and contributed to the early development of civilization in northwestern China. The Majiayao culture, ...

Chinese hydroelectric power plans in Tibet threaten to destabilize the Himalayan region’s ecology and politics.

A slowdown in the growth of China’s fuel use is without precedent for a country at its stage of economic development, the ...

A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

While the proposed hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River has sparked concerns in India, from China’s perspective it ...