NEW YORK, December 2, 2008 – A film documenting an environmental rehabilitation project in Western China illustrates China's ability to restore some of its most devastated landscapes—and serves as a ...

Spectacular scenery of terraced fields on the loess plateau in Pengyang, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, May 5, 2024. Photo: China News Service Spectacular scenery of terraced fields ...

The ancient highland area in north-central China has been dubbed the “cradle of Chinese civilization”. The moniker owes to it being the source of the Yellow River, the country’s second longest natural ...

This article series explores 12 distinct “regions” within China: six “core” regions long dominated by the majority Han ethnic group and six “periphery” regions home to many of China’s ethnic ...

XIAN, China, Sept. 1 (UPI) --New research suggests China's Loess Plateau, the largest dust deposit in the world, was formed by the winds blowing across the Mu Us Desert -- like a leaf blower piles ...

The Loess Plateau in China’s Northwest is home to more than 50 million people. Centuries of overuse led to one of the highest erosion rates in the world and widespread poverty. Two projects set out to ...

Central China's Loess Plateau was mostly covered by grass for the past 20,000 years - not forest as popularly believed - mainland scientists say, warning that an ambitious government tree-planting ...

Located in the central region of the Loess Plateau and west bank of the Yellow River, an ancient stone city in Wubao county of Yulin city, Shaanxi province, was called "Fortress Wubao" for its steep ...

A bullet train departed Yan’an on Friday, linking the sacred revolutionary heartland to the country’s high-speed rail network ...