The unusually long and intense heatwave is the nation's strongest since record-keeping began in 1961, meteorologists say, as it stretches into its third month. Some farmers estimate crops will have less than a third of their usual yield.
abc.net.au/news/drought-changes-landscape-in-southwest-china-record-heatwave-/101368824The landscape around Chongqing, one of China's megacities that also takes in surrounding farmland and steep and picturesque mountains, has been transformed by an unusually long and intense heatwave and an accompanying drought.
To the north, Li Siming walks through his fields of yellowing rice plants in Mu'er town, as the sound of jets landing at a nearby airport echoed off the hillsides. Farmers have moved forward the harvest by half a month so the crops won't dry up, but before the grains are fully developed.Bridge support columns show previous water levels in the Yangtze River.Europe this summerThe Jialing River, a tributary of the Yangtze, has shrunk in places to less than half the width of its channel through the heart of Chongqing.
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