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Scientists Analyze the Wind Regime for Long-Ridge Yardangs in the Northwestern Qaidam Basin
Yardangs are typical aeolian erosion landforms, which are attracting more and more attention of geomorphologists and geologists for their various morphology and enigmatic formation mechanisms.
2019-11-11 -
Scientists Reveal Domino Effect of Climate Change Over Two Millennia in Ancient China's Hexi Corridor
Climate change, population growth and extreme events can trigger social crises and instability. The processes that dominate a society’s emergence, resilience and collapse, and the complex interactions among such processes, operating within a small region, at a multicentury or even larger time scale, remain to be id...
2019-10-15 -
Scientists Reveal Relations Between Annual Herb Plant Community Characteristics and Increased Precipitation and Reduced Wind Velocity
Recently, scientists from Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences examined the effects of increased precipitation and reduced wind velocity on annual herb plant community characteristics via a manipulative experiment from the middle of April to middle of August...
2019-10-12 -
Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Assists to Monitor Small-Scale Landslides in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Landslides are one of the major geohazards in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and have recently increased in both frequency and size.
2019-10-08 -
Scientists Investigate the Microbial Mercury Methylation in the Cryosphere
Mercury is a toxic heavy metal and a global pollutant with special physical and chemical properties, and its cycle is mainly controlled by oxidation-reduction reactions carried out by photochemical or microbial process under suitable conditions.
2019-09-24 -
Profile: Glacier guardian preserves ice giants in NW China
Spending almost half of his life studying glaciers in the Qilian Mountains in northwestern China, Qin Xiang has gotten used to countless crevasses, and fierce winds and snow in areas at an altitude of over 4,000 meters above sea level.
2019-09-05 -
Trace Elements in Hair of Cooks Assist to Reveal the Indoor Air Pollution in Lhasa
Considering the effect of environmental exposure and contamination, six trace elements in scalp hair samples of cooks at Lhasa city, southern Tibetan Plateau were analyzed by in ductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry.
2019-09-03 -
Scientists Investigate Carbonaceous Matter in Glaciers at Headwaters of the Yangtze River
Carbonaceous matter has an important impact on glacial retreat in the Tibetan Plateau, further affecting the water resource supply.
2019-08-22
