Abstract: Understanding climate change in the Middle East (ME) is crucial because people’s living environment depends on rain-fed crop systems. It remains unclear if the ME climate would be affected by the Saharan vegetation collapse ...

Abstract: Many slow-moving landslides with pre-existing shear zones exist in the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) region. In response to dynamics such as water-level fluctuations, shear-zone soil undergoes repeated small deformations, ...