Global Ecology

10/9/07 updated Freshwater Shortage and Desertification (2.0 MB pdf) by adding a page on desertification in Minqin County in north-central China.

10/18/07 updated The Aral Sea (2.0 MB pdf) by adding images of the Aral Sea taken during 2007.

7/9/08 updated Asian Air Pollution (2.6 MB pdf) by adding pages on China's air quality in 2008.

Supplemental Web Papers

10/9/07 updated China's Deserts (2.2 MB pdf) by updating images and references.

10/16/07 updated by adding a web paper on Geomorphology and Dust Storms in China (2.2 MB pdf).

2/1/08 updated A Review of Current Research on Human Evolution (2.5 MB pdf) by adding a page on Homo erectus postcranial fossils from Dmanisi, Georgia.