Although for humid regions a general increase in annual rainfall is likely, the team found, heavier extreme precipitation events in arid regions do not necessarily imply more rain overall. If arid and ...

The Loess Plateau is in the sub-humid to arid transition region. Under the action of the driving factors, each factor in the ecosystem will have a reaction, and the comprehensive response results of ...

The Loess Plateau region, surrounded by the Taihang Mountains to the east, the Qilian Mountains to the west, the Ordos Plateau to the north and the Qinling Mountains to the south, is dispersed over ...

The analysis revealed that, compared to the 1961–1990 period, the average annual air temperature and precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau between 1991 and 2010 increased by 0.72C and 75.64 mm, ...

New research published in the journal Science predicts the future of Mongolia’s semi-arid plateau, saying that if the last two decades show any clue, the region is in for extreme heatwaves and ...

In northern China, wheat is the primary staple crop, cultivated extensively in arid and semiarid regions where drought poses a significant challenge to production. Understanding wheat’s response to ...

The Asian inland plateau (AIP) is located in the East Asian monsoon marginal areas and mainly includes Mongolia and part of northern China. Covering arid and semi-arid regions, the climate ...

The anatomy of fossil plants growing in the Andean Altiplano region 10 million years ago calls current paleoclimate models into question, suggesting that the area was more humid than models predict.