The appearance of the Himalayas during the late Tertiary Period and the accompanying further raising of the previously established rages had a marked effect on the climate of the region. Primarily, of course, it blocked the Indian monsoon from reaching Central Asia at all. Secondly, air and mois...
Theymovedinwithalocalfamily,theHarrisons,and,likethem,hadlittleprivacy,rare baths,andablanketofsnowontheirquiltwhen theywokeupinthe morning.Some mornings, Rosamond and Dorothy would arrive at the schoolhousetofindthechildrenweepingfromthe cold.Inspring,thesnow wasreplacedby mud overice. In Wickenden?s...
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Big cats are at the top of the food chain and have few predators of their own. Big cats include snow leopards, clouded leopards, tigers and lions. Based on genetic judgements, most scientists believe they first existed in Central Asia. But previously, the oldest known ...
in Asia. I lived for one year in China (Shanghai) and was able to travel around visiting countries like India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Singapore and Cambodia. And I mustn’t forget Brazil. I’ve traveled there many times with a quick jaunt to Argentina once—the only two countries I’ve...
Field surveys and empirical integrated methods are commonly used in the ecological research to understand the altitudinal pattern of plant diversity of mountains. However, few studies have compared the differences between the two methods on the same scale. Here, we addressed and compared the altitudina...
An example is the Himalayas, formed by the collision of the Indian and Asian plates. Translational plate boundaries, which are locations where plates slide parallel to each other, may develop extensional troughs known as pull-apart basins, e.g., the Salton Trough of Southern California [7, p...
Because we have dug many "wells" at the foot of the Himalayas, and used the water from the "wells" to irrigate our crops, we believe that we can survive. However, "digging wells" is not our ultimate purpose. We still hope there will be snow water coming down from the ...
In this study, we selected two proglacial lakes in the southern TP [the Qiangyong (QY) Lake and the Pumoyong (PM) Lake] (Fig. 1). These two lakes are both influenced by pollution from southern Asia, and exhibit an increasingly warm climate30. However, there are notable differences betw...
in which cool waters dominate the central and eastern tropical Pacific. The pattern affects atmospheric circulation, keeping the main rains over southern Asia and the Indonesian region, and with associated record-breaking marine heat waves in the North and South Pacific. In North America, it...