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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

The results showed that the CUEe in EVAs in China ranged from -0.39 to 0.67 with a mean ... among the different EVAs (agro-pastoral ecotones < Tibetan Plateau < arid and semiarid areas < Loess Plateau ...

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 ...

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

BEIJING — China’s vice president held meetings with the U.S. vice president-elect and U.S. business leaders, including Elon Musk, in Washington on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration ...