Diverting Chinese river from ecological disaster offers sustainable model
Lanzhou, China (SPX) Nov 28, 2014 - For tens of thousands of years, modern humans have used the waterways to spread out across the surface of the planet. Major civilizations developed along massive rivers like the Nile in Egypt and the Yellow River in China, and massive water channels propelled the expansion of economies around the world. But in recent decades, according to a team of scientists at the Cold and Arid Regions E ... more

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