The researchers found that a combination of natural and human pressures can lead to complex scenarios in some regions. Previously undocumented water declines occurred in northwestern China in Xin Jiang province. This region, about the size of Kansas, is bordered by Kazakhstan to the west and the TakRodell and his colleagues had to piece together multiple factors to explain the disappearance of 5.5 gigatons of terrestrial water storage per year in Xin Jiang Province. Less rainfall was not the culprit. Additions to surface water were also occurring from climate change-induced glacier melt and th
Date: May 17, 2018
Category: Science
Source: Google
Google Blocked as China Beefs Up Security on Tiananmen's 25th Anniversary
Xin Jiang, a Chinese news assistant for Japanese newspaper Nikkei, is believed to have been detained by police and held incommunicado already for several weeks, on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking troubles a catchall charge used with increasing frequency against those who run afoul of t