" A national-scale model of China is developed to assess the groundwater depletion. = Total depletion averages around 16.7 km3/yr, equivalent to 30% of Yellow River's annual flow. = Model confirms the dichotomy between northern and southern China groundwater resources. = Depletion traces the Chinese economic development with implications for global sustainability. " = Groundwater, farming, and oasis's. With a promise from their elite, that China will gain our Western 'living standards'
Did you know, that China has the world fastest growing oasis?
" The researchers found that global oasis area increased by 220,800 square kilometers (85,251 square miles) over the 25-year timeframe. Most of that increase was from humans intentionally converting desert land into oases using runoff water and groundwater pumping, creating grasslands and croplands. The increase was concentrated in China, where management efforts have contributed more than 60% of the growth, Gui said. For example, more than 95% of the population in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region lives within an oasis, motivating conservation and a 16,700 square kilometer (6,448 square mile) expansion of the oasis, Gui said. "
Whatever USA do now will just be about saving face, but they have no face left, to save, in the Middle East. So it has to be about you, and me, in the West.
" Multiple officials with knowledge of the discussions have expressed worry about the possibility of a high death toll among Palestinian civilians as Israel targets areas with suspected tunnels. The U.S. has pressed Israel to pursue "alternate ways" of addressing a Hamas military presence in Rafah, said Ambassador David Satterfield, the U.S. special envoy for Middle East humanitarian issues.
"We think there are other ways to deal with this. And if there is not a credible, executable humanitarian plan, then we cannot support a ground operation," Satterfield told reporters Tuesday." "
Too much of a concentration camp? Or should that be about a reelection?
" When the team collected data on self-reported yearly plastic packaging production for each of these multinational companies and compared it with the data from their 1,500-plus litter surveys, their statistical analysis showed that every 1% increase in plastic production was directly correlated with approximately a 1% increase in plastic pollution. "