Poyang
Americannoun
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In China's Poyang Lake, the country's largest freshwater lake, the researchers calculated that rotifers were creating 13.3 quadrillion particles every single day.
From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023
China’s largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake, entered its dry season on Thursday, the earliest start to the season since record-keeping began in the 1950s, according to the authorities in Jiangxi Province.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2023
Among the many striking images is a pattern left in the mud flats around Poyang Lake, usually the largest freshwater body in the country, which has shrunk by more than two-thirds.
From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2022
The dramatic decline of water coverage in Poyang Lake in the central province of Jiangxi otherwise had cut off irrigation channels to neighboring farmlands in one of China’s key rice-growing regions.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2022
They tell us we can go in this ship to Hankow and the Poyang Lake.
From Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin by James, Eighth Earl of Elgin
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