A Fragile Balance -- Workers pick cotton on the edge of the desert that threatens to engulf the ancient Chinese city of Dunhuang in China's northwest Gansu province. Dunhuang is in danger of being swallowed by the sands of the adjacent Kumtag desert, which are creeping closer at a rate of up to 13 feet a year. Kevin Raskoff/Census of Marine Life
Bricks With Molded Designs Unearthed In Chongqing
(Caucasians in Ancient China)
Xinhuanet.com/China View | 1-12-2004
Posted on 01/12/2004 12:28:45 PM EST by blam
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Multiplication Table From 1,800 Years Ago Discovered In Hunan
Peoples Daily | 3-9-2004
Posted on 03/09/2004 7:04:42 PM EST by blam
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Discoveries Reveal A Flourishing Dunhuang 1,000 Years Ago
Xinhuanet | 3-21-2004 | China View
Posted on 03/21/2004 5:37:15 PM EST by blam
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Heavenly Wonder Of Ancient China Goes On Show
(1,300 Year-Old Star-Chart)
Ananova | 5-3-2004
Posted on 05/03/2004 7:02:04 PM EDT by blam
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Caves Hold Clue To The Riddle Of The Three Hares
The Telegraph (UK) | 7-3-2004
Posted on 07/03/2004 5:43:19 PM EDT by blam
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China’s miracle in the desert is drying up
NYT | 05/27/05 | Jim Yardley
Posted on 05/28/2005 8:56:03 AM EDT by TigerLikesRooster
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New Evidence Suggests Longer Paper Making History In China
China.org - Xinhua News Agency | 8-13-2006
Posted on 08/13/2006 6:58:00 PM EDT by blam
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Chinese Archaeologists Discover 2,000-Year-Old Leather Shoes
The Hindu | 9-9-2006
Posted on 09/09/2006 2:19:11 PM EDT by blam
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China: Mysterious building discovered in emperor’s tomb
(a buried step-pyramid?)
China Economic Net | 07/01/07
Posted on 07/01/2007 3:31:24 AM EDT by TigerLikesRooster
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In a place that doesn't have much water, they're planting trees? This is the stupidest thing imaginable. Deserts don't become forests via tree planting - even in Israel, river water is diverted to water its farms. Aquifers are a finite resource - it's truly nutty to think desertification could be slowed down via tree-planting when in fact, this speeds up desertification. This is exactly why human settlements have vanished in the past - they used up their water supply and had to leave.
A related article is here:
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/194083.php/Chinas-equivalent-of-Sistine-Chapel-in-peril
The cure for desertification is even more gov’t planning.
