Source: China – South China Morning PostBeijing and surrounding areas may have been engulfed in deadly torrential downpours in the past fortnight but a new study reveals a longer-term drying trend for the country’s major rivers.
New research shows that despite many Chinese cities increasingly being hit by extreme rainfall, the volume of water in China’s rivers has fallen over 60 years, particularly in the country’s north.
The researchers found that from 1956 to 2016, some 756 – or 72 per cent – of the 1,046 hydrological stations in…Read More