As global temperatures continue to increase and human activities continue to expand, many
countries and regions are witnessing the consequences of global climate change. Mongolia …

As the largest ecosystem of China, the desert ecosystem and the desertification-prone
region (DPR) occupies 44% of China's land area. The past, present, and the future of …

Since the early 2000s, China has carried out extensive “grain-for-green” and grazing
exclusion practices to combat desertification in the desertification-prone region (DPR) …

Asian dust storms have long been a major environmental concern in China, affecting the
lives of about one billion people. However, it is unclear whether the mechanisms …

Instrumental records reveal that intense tropical cyclone (TC) activity varies with tropical sea
surface temperature (SST) on annual-decadal scales. Drivers of intense TC activity at the …

In the last two decades, stalagmite oxygen isotope (δ 18 O) records have been widely used
to study the evolution of the paleomonsoon. Nevertheless, interpreting cave δ 18 O records …

自然地理学是一门以基础研究见长的自然科学, 其研究对象是与人类生存和发展密切相关的自然
环境. 中国的自然环境复杂多样, 自然地理学家根据国家需求和区域发展在应用基础和应用研究 …

In China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing
meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have …

Instrumental data indicate the occurrence of a dipolar pattern of precipitation anomalies
between north China and the Yangtze River Valley (YRV), which was termed “northern …

High-quality paleoclimate reconstructions can provide crucial climate context to test the
hypothesis of climatic impact on historical culture changes. Here we report high-resolution …