Jinxiu Creek, located in the southwest of Wuwei County, Anhui Province, covers an area of 4.55 hectares with a water surface of 30 acres. It is a quiet and tranquil environment, and it is the main place for local people to relax and have fun. Historically, Jinxiu Creek was quite large, and it was given ...
The summer of 2022 has seen record-breaking high temperatures across China. As a result, receding Yangtze River waters have revealed three Buddhist statues. As water levels of rivers and reservoirs go down, historical treasures and archaeological relics emerge. Amid this drought, the water levels of the Yangtze River have immensely dropped, and in the process, ...
There is no denying the ancient Indian civilizations achieved stupendous success in the realms of architecture and sculpture, and the ruins of such civilizations leave the viewers amazed. Some of these old-era innovations and mechanisms can be utilized even now to benefit the human race. While stepwells used in ancient Indian civilizations are mostly found ...
Australia is the world’s driest inhabited continent. Almost 70 percent of the mainland is arid or semi-arid, receiving less than 19.7 inches (500 millimeters) of rainfall annually. Drought is often endemic, but the current condition is one of the most severe in modern history. Drought has devastated cattle ranches, sheep farms, and swaths of arable ...
As the Earth moves through its phases, land masses keep rising to the ocean’s surface and falling back into the deep once again as water levels drop. This may happen for entire continents as well as for smaller regions. It may happen over millions of years, or, like in the manmade cases we’re about to ...
With Australia experiencing a severe drought in several regions, an orchard owner decided to help out. The owner, Brian Burton from Queensland, Australia, is donating almost 200,000 mangoes to drought-affected communities and other local charities. Help in times of drought When Burton bought his property a while back, it came with 2,300 Kensington mango trees. ...
Flash drought across China is a rapidly intensifying the water deficit process accompanied by high temperatures over a short period of time. Recently, heat extremes have become more frequent in a warming climate, and have substantially increased the occurrence of two types of flash drought, which threatens crop yields and water supply. Dr. Linying Wang ...
Economic losses caused by drought losses in China may double if the global temperature rises by 1.5°C to 2.0°C above pre-industrial levels, with increasing drought intensity and areal coverage across China, a new economic assessment study by Chinese scientists found. The study, which was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences based on 30 ...
Throughout history, mankind has turned to prayer when the land was ravaged by floods and droughts. Whatever the circumstances, changing the will of Heaven was never easy. Emperor Xuanzong, ruler of the Tang Dynasty from 712-756, once made a personal appeal to Heaven for fair weather for the sake of his people, and this benevolent ...
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