Between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago, the Earth experienced significant climatic changes, including the rapid retreat of ice ...

Over two decades, Li Wanhui of the Xinjiang local government, has watched as a downstream stretch of the mighty Tarim River turned from a natural local oasis to a dry riverbed and then, ultimately, ...

This article discusses the Loptuq, a group of Turkic-speakers, who until the 1950s lived as fishers-foragers at the Lower Tarim River, Eastern Turkestan (contemporary Xinjiang, China), and their use ...