The world's oceans are warming, and the marginal seas exhibit more notable warming than the open ocean due to their proximity to land and other unique regional factors. The Yellow Sea and East China Sea (YECS, Fig. 1) are ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 25, 2017
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Dust, one of the major aerosol constituents of the global aerosol burden, is an active component in Earth's physical, chemical and biogeochemical cycles. In addition, dust aerosols induce adverse effects on social and economic ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 11, 2017
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Two sub-parallel belts of Cenozoic aged Himalayan leucogranite on the Tibetan Plateau extend east to west over more than 1000 km, and are regarded as the largest granitic belts in the world. Rare-metal mineralization was ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 30, 2017
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Surface water contamination due to nonpoint source (NPS) pollutants has severely degraded water quality and threatened ecosystems. However, previous research has primarily examined the NPS pollutants in watershed and coastal ...
Environment
Aug 30, 2017
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The Nanling Range of South China is world famous for its widely developed, multiple-aged granitic magmatism and related polymetallic mineralization. Various kinds of granites have distinct diversities in terms of metallogenic ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 27, 2017
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Chinese urbanization has profoundly contributed to the whole country's economic growth, social advancement and life improvement. Parallel to this process, however, China has confronted a series of problems, such as loss of ...
Environment
Jun 19, 2017
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The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration will be constructed as one of the largest urban agglomerations in the period of the 13th national five-year plan, and it is also the strategic core region for implementing the ...
Environment
Jun 16, 2017
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Urban land-use/cover changes and their effects on the eco-environment have long been an active research topic in the urbanization field. Prof. KUANG Wenhui's group at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed the EcoCity ...
Environment
Jun 7, 2017
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The Kuroshio ocean current, originating in the Philippine Sea east of the Luzon Strait, enters the East China Sea (ECS) northeast of Taiwan Island, flowing along the outer edge of the ECS shelf, and turns eastward to the ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 6, 2017
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North China is one of the areas of strong earthquake activity on the Chinese mainland. Between the 1960s and 1970s, North China experienced the 1966 Xingtai Ms7.2, 1969 Bohai Ms7.4, 1975 Haicheng Ms7.3 and 1976 Tangshan Ms7.8 ...
Earth Sciences
May 5, 2017
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