All Articles Tagged As: china

Coal from mass extinction era linked to lung cancer mystery (1/7/2010)

The volcanic eruptions thought responsible for Earth's largest mass extinction -- which killed more than 70 percent of plants and animals 250 million years ago -- is still taking lives today. That's the conclusion of a new study showing, for the first time, that the high silica content of coal in one region of China may be interacting with volatile substances in the coal to cause unusually high rates of lung cancer. The study appears in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology. ...> Full Article

Satellite data look behind the scenes of deadly earthquake (10/19/2009)

Using satellite radar data and GPS measurements, Chinese researchers have explained the exceptional geological events leading to the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake that killed nearly 90 000 people in China's Sichuan Province. ...> Full Article

Ancient China's sand dunes reveal unexpected dryness during heavy monsoon rains (10/8/2009)

The windswept deserts of northern China might seem an odd destination for studying the heavy monsoon rains that routinely drench the more tropical regions of Southeast Asia. But the sandy dunefields that mark the desert margin between greener pastures to the south and the Gobi Desert to the north are a rich source of information about past climates in Asia, says University of Wisconsin-Madison geographer Joseph Mason. ...> Full Article

Wenchuan earthquake mudslides emit greenhouse gas (3/4/2009)

Mudslides that followed the May 12, 2008, Wenchuan, China earthquake may cause a carbon-dioxide release in upcoming decades equivalent to two percent of current annual global carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion, a new study in Geophysical Research Letters shows. ...> Full Article

May 2008 Earthquake in China Could Be Followed by Another Significant Rupture (9/11/2008)

Scientists Say Nearby Faults Now Twice as Likely to Produce Strong Quakes ...> Full Article

Scientific drilling starts in Qaidam Basin (7/20/2008)

Joint drilling project is planned to reach a 1,200m-deep core in the alkaline region at the local sedimentation center of the west Qaidam sub-basin. Then combining with natural outcrops nearby the deep core, it is expected to reconstruct the high resolution and precision chronologic sequence and to confirm the occurrences of seismostratigraphic boundaries. ...> Full Article

Geologists study China earthquake for glimpse into future (7/7/2008)

The May 12 earthquake that rocked Sichuan Province in China was the first there in recorded history and unexpected in its magnitude. Now a team of geoscientists is looking at the potential for future earthquakes due to earthquake-induced changes in stress. ...> Full Article

Geologists show China quake was rare event (7/2/2008)

Could be a long wait before next big temblor--or maybe not ...> Full Article

Enforcing scientific governance over seismic forecasts (6/4/2008)

Scholars called for the scientific management of seismic hazards at a symposium held recently by the Center for Policy Simulation under the CAS Institute of Policy and Management. ...> Full Article