Bacteria Could Help Reclaim China’s Desert
New Scientist’s Hal Hodson describes research into the use of bacteria to combat...
deserts
700 Mountains Flattened for New Desert City
Late last month, premier-in-waiting Li Keqiang declared that boosting the country’s urban population, which passed 50% of the total a year ago, was China’s most promising avenue for further development. From Caijing:...
Harnessing the Ulan Buh Desert
While a recent Los Angeles Times article emphasized the use of water diversion to supply China’s cities, Beijing Review describes ongoing efforts to reclaim Inner Mongolian desert with laborious planting fed by redirection...
Deserts Swallowing Up China’s Grasslands and Cities – Zijun Li
From China Watch (link): In recognition of the grave perils of increasing desertification, the United Nations has declared 2006 the International Year of Deserts and Desertification and the theme of World Environment Day on June 5, 2006 is, “Don’t Desert Drylands!”. Deserts and other dryland ecosystems now cover a third of the Earth’s land surface, […]
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