southern china

What Happened to the Giant ‘Kings of Apes’ That Once Roamed Southern China?

Giant creatures are usually associated with dinosaurs, woolly mammoths, or mystical beasts. But if you go back though the human lineage, you’ll find a very distant relative that stood three meters tall and weighed around 250 kilograms. This was Gigantopithecus blacki, the mightiest of all the apes and one of the biggest unresolved mysteries in ...

January 17, 2024

Troy Oakes

Artist’s impression of a group of G. blacki.

Working Toward Better Forecasting of Freezing Rain in Southern China

Under particular conditions, extreme low-temperature, precipitation, and freezing-weather events can occur over an extensive area to form a combined meteorological disaster. For example, in January 2008, southern China experienced record-breaking long-lasting severe low temperatures, precipitation, and freezing weather with freezing rain. Since the beginning of the current century, this type of disaster, referred to as ...

January 11, 2021

Troy Oakes