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Significant increases in annual temperatures are having a devastating effect on glaciers in the mountainous regions of southwestern China, potentially affecting natural habitats, tourism and wider economic development.
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 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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.
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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.
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 | Scientists Say Nearby Faults Now Twice as Likely to Produce Strong Quakes ...> Full Article |
 | 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 |
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.
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 | Could be a long wait before next big temblor--or maybe not ...> Full Article |
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.
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