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China’s Worst Soil Loss Follows a Famous 1935 Line Across the Map

A study in Communications Earth & Environment has found that China’s most severe water erosion clusters along the Hu Line, a famous 1935 boundary that still captures one of the country’s deepest geographic divides. The study used national soil-loss modeling from 2000 to 2020 to show where land is washing away fastest and why the…