Posts Tagged ‘desertification’

Chinese Trees Get an IV Drip

Monday, April 27, 2009 22:27 No Comments

In what is either a groundbreaking form of drip irrigation, or a practice that needs to be nipped in the bud, the article Transplanted trees receive ‘intravenous drip’ in NW China highlights a practice that local official are using to help ensure trees survival:

Workers with the municipal bureau of parks and woods of Xi’an have [...]

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China Finds Massive Underground Water Reserves and Should Leave Them There

Monday, October 13, 2008 2:57 No Comments

While China is going to have the most difficulty with going forward, the recent report China finds 14,000-km underground rivers in rock desert areas , gave me pause.
With large areas of desertification occurring in the north, ocean desterifications occurring along the coast, and mismanagement of its major rivers: the Yangtze and Yellow river, tapping into [...]

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Wake Up, Freak Out – Then Get a Grip

Saturday, October 11, 2008 8:48 No Comments

To be honest, the more time I spend learning about, discussing, and seeing the issues of “Global Warming”, the less inclined I am to use the term Global Warming.  It is in fact, in my opinion, a topic that is too big… too intangible.. at times, and while I want to save the drowning polar [...]

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