Sentences with phrase «southwestern china»

Citizens in southwestern China who were out and about on Wednesday evening were treated to a spectacular celestial light show thanks to a massive meteor that lit up the sky.

Due to the perfect storm that Popper described, these remote parts of southwestern China are seeing a huge explosion in new mine launches.

Last week, Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina agreed to jointly develop shale gas resources in southwestern China's Sichuan province.

Citrus nobilis, the tangerine, mandarin or mandarin orange (including the «Clementine» or clementine mandarin), or satsuma, is a cold - intolerant small fruit tree in the Rutaceae (citrus family) that originated in southwestern China or northeastern India.

Having just come from southwestern China, the scenery in Vang Vieng didn't seem spectacular either.

The plant is native to the Guangxi province in southwestern China.

The local in the Guangxi province in southwestern China attribute their longevity to the consumption and medicinal use of Luo Han Guo.

Regardless of different host bat species, SARS - CoV and SARSr - CoVs detected in bats from southwestern China (Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi province) formed one clade, in which SARSr - CoV strains showing closer relationship to SARS - CoV were all from Yunnan.

One of the new studies looks at bones found in caves in southwestern China.

According to the Land & Ocean Temperature Percentiles map above, monthly record warmth was observed over much of northern Canada, far northwestern Russia, southern Japan, the Philippines, part of southwestern China, and central southern Africa.

The source of that rain, say the researchers, was coal combustion — the main source of power in southwestern China.

Summer in southwestern China is the monsoon season, with heavy rain at unpredictable times throughout the day.

The maps showed that most of these native species were concentrated in the mountains of southwestern China, especially in the province of Sichuan — exactly the places where the panda now survives, and where many nature preserves have been established to protect them.

(Dam building and the reservoir that formed behind the structure displaced 1.3 million people in southwestern China.)

So Liu, the director of MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, and his colleagues across the United States and China, hunkered into the task of showing how pandas in the mountains of southwestern China affect the globe, and vice versa.

Plant scientist Selena Ahmed has spent nearly a decade studying tea production in southwestern China.

They were found in 220 - million - year - old rocks near Guanling, in southwestern China.

That's one possible conclusion from 50 well - preserved fossils excavated from 520 - million - year - old rocks in southwestern China.

Codename: Skywalker hoolock gibbon Name: Hoolock tianxing Compromised: January Known territory: Myanmar and southwestern China Physical characteristics: Downturned white eyebrows Notable skills / traits: ELITE STATUS: Tucked away in isolated mountains known as sky islands, these rare gibbons have taken careful tracking to find and identify.

In this reserve in the Qinling Mountains of southwestern China, I was starting what was to become my life's work: the study of pandas in the wild.

A male panda almost disappears from sight against the winter landscape of the Qinling Mountains in southwestern China.

Yang grew up in Sichuan province in southwestern China, at the base of a mountain that inspired a fascination with nature.

Three years ago, this research group discovered that the horses that farmers introduced to the forest for extra income in effect shoved pandas away from the bamboo buffet in the Wolong Nature Reserve in southwestern China, the famed home of the vulnerable giant pandas, as well as other threatened wildlife.

(CNN)- A court in southwestern China has given heavy sentences to two ethnic Tibetans convicted of murder for «inciting» people to set themselves of fire, state media reported Thursday.

China Eastern announced last week that it plans to form a joint - venture airline with the government of southwestern China's Yunnan province, a prime tourism destination.

«Actually Marx already predicted that there could be a kind of socialism which combined socialist principles with the achievements of Western capitalist civilizations but he didn't say how this kind of socialism would work since there was no evidence available during his lifetime,» Su Wei, a professor at a party school for ideological training in Chongqing, in southwestern China, told the Global Times.

While enjoying a better environment in southwestern China, entrepreneurs should also visit tech hubs like Beijing more frequently to hear more and meet media and investors», said Lee.

Although Chengdu's tech scene is still not comparable to Beijing's, it is drawing more startups and talents as the tech hub of southwestern China.

The flight was supposed to fly from Anqing to Kunming in southwestern China on October 19, 2017, but when passengers noticed the woman tossing coins into the plane's engine, they alerted crew members onboard.

Not exact matches

Held in the capital city of China's southwestern Sichuan province, the fair is actually split into two parts: taking place between 19 - 22 March and 23 - 25 March.

The Sichuan province in the southwestern corner of China is known for its fiery dishes.

The only way to avert that crisis, says a growing chorus of malaria researchers, international agencies, and donors, is to wipe out all malaria from the entire Greater Mekong subregion — five countries and a southwestern spit of China bound together by the world's 12th longest river.

To pin down the gene's origins, the researchers sequenced some 250 individuals, half from Africa, the rest from China, Central Asia, the Basque Country of southwestern Europe, and the Pacific Islands.

Since the late 1970s, more than 400 people of all ages in remote areas of China's southwestern Yunnan province have dropped dead — sometimes in midsentence — from a mysterious cause, mostly during the summer.

The Sichuan province in the southwestern corner of China is known for its fiery dishes.

A new public toilet at a park in China's southwestern Guizhou province.

It was to have begun in the southwestern corner of China, in Yunnan Province, with vistas of the Himalayas and perpetual spring flowers, and then to have continued south on the famed Burma Road.

Another 22 unauthorized Apple retailers have been uncovered in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming in China.

The Leizhou Peninsula is the third largest peninsula in China with an area of c. 8,500 square kilometers (3,300 sq mi) located on the southwestern end of Guangdong, with the Gulf of Tonkin to the west and the 30 km wide Qiongzhou Strait to the south, separating the peninsula from Hainan Island.

Known as the Land of Eternal Spring for its exceptionally mild climate, China's southwestern Yunnan province is bordered by Tibet, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam and is famed for limestone plateaus, snow - capped peaks and rushing rivers

Simulations agree on large regional increases across much of the boreal forest, western Amazonia, central Africa, western China, and southeast Asia, with reductions across southwestern North America, central South America, southern Mediterranean areas, southwestern Africa, and southwestern Australia.

Among this group that has limited outflow during at least part of the year are the Colorado, the major river in the southwestern United States; the Yellow, the largest river in northern China; the Nile, the lifeline of Egypt; the Indus, which supplies most of Pakistan's irrigation water; and the Ganges in India's densely populated Gangetic basin.

April 2018 saw very dry conditions, indicated by much below average relative humidity and soil moisture, and below average precipitation in south and central Argentina, in Australia, in Mexico and southwestern USA, and in eastern China.