I believe it is similar to looking at the Alps, the undulating mountain range with magnificent peaks, from the small town of Davos. My European friends told me that to fully appreciate the majestic beauty of the Alps, one has to zoom out and look from afar. It is the same with the Ch...
Here is a map showing the range of the Rocky Mountains through the United States. The Sierra Nevada The Sierra Nevada mountain range is west of the middle range of the Rockies and runs along the eastern side of the state of California. This mountain range runs for about 250 miles and vari...
Opening of the San Andrés Rift started during the early Eocene and the rift widened during middle Eocene extension. After relative tectonic quiescence throughout the Oligocene, extension accelerated from the middle Miocene to the early Pliocene, and San Andrés Island was uplifted above sea level ...
The majority of the world’s ocean-dependent people live in low to middle-income countries in the tropics (i.e., the ‘tropical majority’). Yet the ocean governance agenda is set largely on the basis of scientific knowledge, funding, and institutions from high-income nations in temperate ...
However, the large-scale migration of the Chinese population from the north to the south after the JK event (AD1127) and the increased human activities, such as massive deforestation and cultivated land reclamation, aggravated the KRD expansion in southwestern China. Therefore, the joint action of...
Mountain building results in high erosion rates and the interaction of rocks with the atmosphere, water and life. Carbon transfers that result from increased erosion could control the evolution of Earth’s long-term climate. For decades, attention has fo
China’s booming development over the past decades, especially its large-scale investment in building and upgrading its infrastructure, has propelled it as a major steel-producing, consuming and trading country. Cartoons Commentary on Xi's Middle East and Africa Tour②: Opening up new realm for ...
Cropwat 8 revealed the irrigation rate of each crop type at the beginning, middle, and end of the growing period. The mean of the three stages of the four crop types was calculated. Grapes consume 642.6 mm/ha at the test location, mangoes require 1304.1 mm/ha, dates use 1218.6 mm/ha,...
European large-scale farmland investments and the land-water-energy-food nexus. Adv. Water Resour. 2017, 110, 579–590. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Van den Heuvel, L.; Blicharska, M.; Masia, S.; Sušnik, J.; Teutschbein, C. Ecosystem services in the Swedish water-energy-food-land...
A large area of CSLs was transformed into SLs area, and the degree of fragmentation was high. (2) Fengdu County was divided into seven types of areas: ecological conservation area; agricultural production area; construction optimization area; construction-ecological area; ecological-agricultural area;...