The study of the orogenic effects of the Tibetan Plateau uplift on global climate during the Cenozoic has focused almost exclusively on the India-Asia collision zone, the Himalayas. The strong erosion in the Himalayas was ...
Environment
Aug 3, 2021
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Wetland, forest, and ocean are the three largest ecosystems in the world. Although the area of wetland ecosystem accounts for only 4-6% of the total land area, the carbon reserves of wetland ecosystem accounts for 12-24% ...
Environment
Jul 6, 2021
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The most significant feature of global land surface wind speed (SWS) recently has been the long-term weakening trend since the 1960s, that is, the phenomenon known as global terrestrial stilling. Many studies have found that ...
Environment
Jun 28, 2021
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Coral bleaching and the ecological degradation of coral reefs have become increasingly severe due to the global warming and human activities. As mixotrophic organisms, scleractinian coral can not only obtain energy through ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 28, 2021
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Coastal bays are momentous transition zones connecting terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Xiangshan Bay is a typically eutrophic and semi-enclosed bay in the East China Sea. A recent study took Xiangshan Bay as an example, ...
Environment
Jun 24, 2021
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The Late Triassic Tianqiaoling flora is well-known in China, and its discovery has changed our understanding of Chinese Late Triassic phytogeographical divisions. More broadly, this flora has great significance for the study ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 8, 2021
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Globally, the Earth system has thousands of terragrams (Tg) (1 Tg = 1012g) of mineral nanoparticles moving around the planet each year. These mineral nanoparticles are ubiquitously distributed throughout the atmosphere, oceans, ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 8, 2021
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The collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates resulted in the formation of the Tianshan Tectonic Belt; however, the formation mechanism of Tianshan and the construction of a dynamic model explaining it remain to be ...
Earth Sciences
May 17, 2021
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A new study led by Dr. Wei and Dr. Qiao from the First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources provides an evaluation of the performance of the newly released CMIP6 models in simulating the global warming ...
Earth Sciences
May 17, 2021
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Against the background of global warming, the energy budget of the earth is out of balance with more than 90% of additional heat entering the ocean.
Earth Sciences
Apr 28, 2021
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