A Human Trigger for the Great Quake of Sichuan?
SEISMOLOGYThe first researchers have gone public with evidence that stresses from water piled behind the new Zipingpu Dam may have triggered last May's devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan…
Have Desert Researchers Discovered a Hidden Loop in the Carbon Cycle?
- R. Stone
- MedicineScience
- 13 June 2008
Findings in two deserts on opposite sides of the world suggest that deserts are a larger sink for carbon dioxide than scientists had assumed.
China Plans $3.5 Billion GM Crops Initiative
- R. Stone
- MedicineScience
- 5 September 2008
Confronted with land degradation, chronic water shortages, and a growing population, the Chinese government later this month is expected to roll out a $3.5 billion R&D initiative on genetically…
Ecologists Report Huge Storm Losses in China's Forests
- R. Stone
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 7 March 2008
NATURAL DISASTERSLast week, China's State Forestry Administration announced that winter storms have damaged 20.86 million hectares--one-tenth of China's forests and plantations--roughly equivalent to…
Chinese Probe Unmasks High-Tech Adulteration With Melamine
A weeks-long investigation into China's tainted milk scandal has left scientists astonished by the technical sophistication of those who used melamine to adulterate food products.
Three Gorges Dam: Into the Unknown
- R. Stone
- Physics, EngineeringScience
- 1 August 2008
A marvel of engineering, the Three Gorges Dam will start operating at full capacity later this year. Already under way is an epic experiment on how a dam impacts the environment.
Dam-building threatens Mekong fisheries.
- R. Stone
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 2 December 2016
Environmentalists and scientists are pressing the hydropower companies to incorporate "fish-friendly" turbines, ladders, and locks for migratory fish into their dam designs, believing that the only way to spare the fisheries is to drop some of the projects.
Landslides, Flooding Pose Threats as Experts Survey Quake's Impact
- R. Stone
- GeologyScience
- 23 May 2008
Landslides unleashed by the rupture on 12 May of a more than 200-kilometer section of the Longmenshan fault in Sichuan, China, followed by powerful aftershocks, dammed parts of nine rivers, creating…
Ecology. China aims to turn tide against toxic lake pollution.
- R. Stone
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 2 September 2011
Four years after an outbreak of a nasty blue-green alga overwhelmed a water works that supplies Wuxi city, efforts to heal Taihu are showing results, but restoring Taihu to a truly healthy state will be a challenge akin to ongoing efforts to bring polluted Lake Erie back from the near-dead.
Last Stand for the Body Snatcher of the Himalayas?
- R. Stone
- GeologyScience
- 21 November 2008
The caterpillar-hijacking fungus
Cordyceps sinensis is touted as a natural Viagra. But overharvesting has put the peculiar parasite9s back against the wall.
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