Land Area Located in the east on the Asian continent on the western shore of the Pacific Ocean, the People's Republic of China has a land area of about 9.6 million sq km, and is the third-largest ...

Xinjiang has long stood at the forefront of China's fight against desertification. Home to the Taklimakan Desert — China's ...

Land subsidence isn’t just a problem in China. In the US, dozens of coastal cities, including New York City, are sinking.In the Netherlands, 25% of its lands have sunk lower than sea levels. And ...

China's desertification has been "primarily caused by human activities, such as overgrazing, excessive logging and excavation, overexploitation, excessive land reclamation, and the misuse of water ...

This photo taken from Jingshan Hill on Aug. 12, 2024 shows the skyscrapers of the central business district on a sunny day in Beijing, capital of China. (Xinhua/Li Xin) BEIJING | Xinhua |  Beijing’s ...

CHINA'S fundamental problem is the intractable one of pressure of population upon resources, and, as usual, there is a great temptation to look for panaceas. For some people, collective farming is the ...

Researchers from Beijing Normal University have analyzed how China's land system may change in 2100 under a 1.5°C global warming scenario and a reference scenario without updated emission ...