Also called "dikengyuan" in Mandarin, which means "pit courtyards," the homes are a type of cave dwelling ("yaodong") commonly found in the Loess Plateau in northern China. "Academic literature ...

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 ...

Huangling County is located on the Loess Plateau of northwest China in Shaanxi Province. It is known for the Yellow Emperor s tomb, hence the name Huangling of the county. Yellow Emperor is the ...

from 1556 CE to 2015 CE in the southwest Chinese Loess Plateau. The study is published in the journal Palaeogeography, ...

A team led by IGGCAS researcher, Tungsheng Liu, a CAS member, has traced the history of aeolian dust sediments in northern China to tens of millions years ago by surveying the Loess Plateau and ...

A grassland agricultural model for the Loess Plateau was designed ... These approaches were widely applied in northern China, providing theoretical and technical support for transforming China ...

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 ...

The team then turned to Chinese history to discover how the records matched with the episodes of unrest that marked today's Shanxi province on the Loess Plateau, a "transition zone" between the ...

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.