The typhoon has brought heavy rainfall across most of the island, with severe rainstorms in certain townships and villages. The northern part of Hainan has experienced strong winds ranging from level 13 to 16, while some cities and counties have faced power outages. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu) Huge ...
Sept. 19, 2024. Authorities in east China's Zhejiang Province have taken precautions against Typhoon Pulasan, the 14th typhoon of the year, which is expected to bring gales and rainstorms to the region.At 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Zhejiang raised its emergency ...
It will not be easy for China to achieve its new NDC targets; it will take approximately 30 years of painstaking effort to transit from peak carbon emissions to achieving carbon neutrality and the largest reduction in ca...
Extreme climate events constitute a major risk to global food production. Among these, extreme rainfall is often dismissed from historical analyses and future projections, the impacts and mechanisms of which remain poorly understood. Here we used long-te
In just the past month China has suffered through the drought in the north and flooding in the south which killed dozens of people. Attributing either of these events to climate change is complicated. But scientists expect that China will increasingly experience periods of heavier rainfall, as wel...
The movement of the two air masses is of immense significance to the climate of central and North China. In summer, when the tropical air mass predominates, thefrontal zonebetween the two shifts northward; as a result, North China receives heavier rainfall. When the southeastern monsoon slackens...
Some farmers in Heilongjiang told the Global Times that although the rainfall may cause some short-term reductions in rice crops, foreign media hype about potential widespread crop failures led by the flood and the "severe impact" on China's agricultural production are overly exaggerated. ...
The results show that with the increase in rainfall intensity, the probability of landslide increases, and its risk value increases as well. The risk under extremely heavy rain is the highest, with 94 people per year, and the economic risk is 141 million yuan per year. The research results ...
"These measures proved effective in preventing flood damage last year. In case of heavy rainfall forecasts, we timeously drained water from fields," said Huang. As the country's major grain-producing province, Heilongjiang pays very close attention to farming production, taking all steps of the ...
BEIJING, April 20 (Xinhua) -- South China's Beijiang River in the Pearl River basin experienced its second flood of the year on Saturday evening due to heavy rainfall in recent days, according to the Ministry of Water Resources. At 8:45 p.m., the water flow at Shijiao hydrological sta...