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More than half of Chinese rivers have disappeared since 1990s

2013-03-29 17:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Times: About 28,000 rivers have disappeared from Chinas state maps, an absence seized upon by environmentalists as evidence of the irreversible natural cost of developmental excesses. More than half of the rivers previously thought to exist in China now appear to be missing, according to the 800,000 surveyors who compiled the first national water census, leaving Beijing fumbling to explain the cause. Only 22,909 rivers, covering an area of 100 square kilometres were located by surveyors, compared with...

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