One-third of the Earth's land surface is already degraded. The UN estimates that more than 2.6 billion people are harmed by land degradation, with countries losing up to US$10.6 trillion (£7.8 ...

Fine silt on the Chinese Loess Plateau may actually have come from due west, not the northwest, which would change conventional thinking about wind patterns over the last 2.6 million years.

China’s ‘Grain for Green’ revegetation programme has potential to help mitigate climate change. However, the increased water demand in the Loess Plateau is approaching a level that will ...

Home to more than 50 million people, the Loess Plateau in China’s Northwest takes its name from the dry powdery wind-blown soil. Centuries of overuse and overgrazing led to one of the highest erosion ...

XIAN, China, Sept. 1 (UPI) --New research suggests China's Loess Plateau, the largest dust deposit in the world, was formed by the winds blowing across the Mu Us Desert -- like a leaf blower piles ...

CHINA'S Loess Plateau had its land "stripped bare" by 8,000 years of human activity, according to a documentary. By Charlie Smith 13:25, Fri, Oct 8, 2021 | UPDATED: 13:27, Fri, Oct 8, 2021 ...

The Loess Plateau, situated in northern China, boasts distinct geographical features delineating its expanse: it abuts the Inner Mongolia Plateau to the north, the eastern boundary is demarcated ...

Also called "dikengyuan" in Mandarin, which means "pit courtyards," the homes are a type of cave dwelling ("yaodong") commonly found in the Loess Plateau in northern China. "Academic literature ...

During these times, the Loess Plateau would have been a temperate grassland crossed by streams and dotted with small lakes, offering rich grazing for horses, rhinos, deer, elephants, and ancient ...

Completed in 2016 in Weinan, China. Images by hyperSity Architects . This house is a renovation project of "wow home" TV series, for the client Ye Liangchen, a Internet star, who lives in the ...