NEW YORK Nike Air VaporMax CS Womens , Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Sea ice in the Antarctic has shrunk to its lowest level since records began nearly four decades ago, preliminary U.S. satellite data has shown.
Figures from the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) on Wednesday show that sea ice in the frozen continent covered just 2.26 million square km on Tuesday, lower than the lowest level seen around this time in 1997.
Mark Serreze, director of the NSIDC Nike Air VaporMax Off White Womens , told reporters that the new data still need to be confirmed with a few days of measurements.
The sea ice is likely to decrease further as it usually melts to its smallest for the year at the end of February in the summer of southern hemisphere.
Sea ice at both poles has been expected to decline as the Earth heats up due to man-made global warming. However, the conditions in the Antarctic are much more variable.
The average extent of sea ice around the South Pole has tended to expand in many recent years and hit a record high of around 20.16 million square km in September 2014.
Photo taken on Feb. 28, 2017 shows people ski in Damingshan Ski Resort which is located in the Damingshan Mountain at an elevation of 1200m, in Lin'an, east China's Zhejiang Province. Damingshan Ski Resort, as the biggest ski resort in East China, has 5,000 square meters of play area and 50,000 square meters of professional ski zone, which received 140,000 tourists from Dec. 12, 2016 to March 3, 2017. In an echo of China's overarching ambition to encourage 300 million people in the country to participate in winter sports ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, skiing and skating are witnessing a boom in east China's Zhejiang Province. There are 10 ski resorts and 4 ice skating courts in Zhejiang. These ski resorts in Zhejiang accommodated 840,100 tourists and earned more than 1 million RMB in last year. As 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics coming, more winter sports venues will be building up here. The government of Zhejiang will announce policies and plans on winter sports development. One expert from Sports Economy department of Zhejiang Sports Bureau believed more and more people of China's middle class would participate into winter sports. (XinhuaHuang Zongzhi)
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China's megabucks teams will set their sights on continental glory when defending champions Guangzhou Evergrande and big-spending Jiangsu -Suning embark on their Asian Champions League campaigns this week.
After a spending spree which has made the soccer world sit up and take notice, Chinese teams will want to make good on their investment with an immediate impact in the Asian competition.
Chinese clubs have smashed the national transfer record four times in recent weeks and outstripped spending in the English Premier League, highlighted by Alex Teixeira's 50 million euro ($55 million) move to Jiangsu.
The club formerly known as Jiangsu Sainty also splashed out 28 million euros on another Brazilian midfielder Nike Air VaporMax Womens , Ramires from Chelsea, as they bid to challenge Luiz Felipe Scolari's Evergrande.
Evergrande have brandished the check book too with a 42 million euro swoop for Atletico Madrid's Colombian striker Jackson Martinez.
But they also offloaded Brazilian marksman Elkeson, who scored a brilliant winner in last year's final against Al Ahli, meaning it will be a new-look attack in Wednesday's opener against Pohang Steelers.
Evergrande will also be without their usual hordes of red-shirted fans after the champions were ordered to play their first game behind closed doors for filming a closed Al Ahli training session Nike Air VaporMax Flyknit Womens , holding an unauthorized post-final ceremony and infringing on the commercial rights of Asian Football Confederation sponsors.
The Chinese team was hit by legal action from shirt sponsors Dongfeng Nissan when they played the second leg of the final with jerseys emblazoned with the Chinese name of -Evergrande Life, an insurance subsidiary of one of the club's co-owners.
Sven-Goran Eriksson's Shanghai SIPG, who snapped up Elkeson from Evergrande, also represent China in this year's competition along with Shandong Luneng Nike Air VaporMax Flyknit Moc Womens , led by ex-Brazil boss Mano Menezes.
Sydney FC and Japan's Urawa Reds, as well as the Steelers, are Evergrande's obstacles in Group H, while Jiangsu's main Group E rivals shape up as 2006 winners Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and FC Tokyo.
Teams from West and East Asia will be kept apart until the final Nike Air VaporMax Flyknit 2 Womens , in a measure designed to boost clubs from the Middle East who have only won one of the last 10 editions.
Saudi Arabia's Al Ittihad, who lifted the title in 2004 and 2005, travel to Uzbekistan's -Lokomotiv on Tuesday after earning their spot in Group A via the playoffs.
Saudi side Al Ahli, who lost acrimoniously to Western Sydney Wanderers in the 2014 -final Nike Air VaporMax Moc 2 Womens , also begin their campaign against Uzbek competition in the form of Nasaf.
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GUANGZHOU, China, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Coaching legend Marcello Lippi departed but left great legacy to the Chinese soccer.
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Zheng Zhi has ever said that it is Lippi who boosts their teamwork, spirit, and the ability of reading matches in a short period of time.