MADRID Jordan 1 Chameleon For Sale , Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Those five wins following the 'Clasico' defeat to FC Barcelona proved to be a false dawn for Real Madrid as Rafael Benitez's side lost to Villarreal on Sunday night.


Shakhtar Donetsk, Eibar (the smallest club in La Liga), Getafe, Cadiz and Malmo, who travelled to Madrid basically to take photographs of the Bernabeu and paid the price for that, had proved to be the perfect rivals to help forget the 4-0 drubbing by Barca, but when Real Madrid were handed a tough test in the El Madrigal Stadium Jordan 1 Rebel Chicago For Sale , they failed it totally.


A goal by former Real Madrid striker, Roberto Soldado in the eighth minute, his first since August, was enough to send Benitez's men crashing to defeat and instead of closing the gap at the top of the table to just two points, they now find themselves five behind Barca and joint leaders Atletico Madrid.


Fit again central defender Sergio Ramos fumed after the game that "you can't speculate with the result... we went out to see what they would do." It is a hint that he is unhappy at the tactics of the much-criticized Benitez, while Benitez himself, struggled to find the reasons for Madrid's poor first half showing.


"It's difficult to explain: Sometimes these things happen in football and today Jordan 1 Rebel Top 3 For Sale , it happened to us. In the first half we didn't play well at all. We didn't do what we have planned," he said.


However, Benitez rejected claims his side had said goodbye to the league title.


"No," he said, adding, "we've lost three points... I am happy with how the team reacted in the second half."


Benitez insists his side is not more defensive than that of his predecessor Carlo Ancelotti, but the numbers speak differently showing they have scored 23 goals less than at the same time last year Jordan 1 Womens For Sale , when the Italian was at the helm.


"We're still the team with most shots on target in the league but we need to be more effective in front of goal. It's about being effective," he explained.


Real Madrid now have a home game against Rayo Vallecano and Real Sociedad to help get their campaign back on track, but the feeling remains that the next time they face a serious test, the same thing will happen.


Overall ecological system improving despite human activity



China on Saturday began its second scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to assess the tremendous changes of the past decades due to climate change and human activities.


Following an expedition in the 1970s, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) launched an expedition that will last five to 10 years. They will make a comprehensive survey of the plateau's glaciers, biodiversity and ecological changes, as well as monitor changes to the region's climate.


Their first stop will be Serling Tso Jordan 1 Mens For Sale , a 2,391-square-kilometer lake that was confirmed to have replaced the Buddhist holy Namtso Lake as Tibet's largest in 2014. CAS will take more than 100 scientists to the lake area and to the source of the Yangtze, China's longest river, the Xinhua News Agency reported.


To provide fundamental data for China's newest national park, the Third Pole National Park, Hou Juzhi, a CAS research fellow Jordan 1 Flyknit For Sale , told the Global Times that his team will conduct research on the lake sediments so that they can learn about the lake's climate, environment and ecological changes during the past 200 years.


As the source of several major rivers, the plateau supplies water to nearly 2 billion people. It is facing serious challenges, including glacier melt and land deterioration due to global warming and human activities. Its ecology is fragile and once damaged, it is difficult to recover, said Li Junsheng, an environmental expert at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences.


"This expedition will play a significant role in discovering new species. They will also seek to explain more natural mysteries and traces of human development [on the plateau] Jordan 1 Velvet For Sale ," Li said.


Retreating glaciers


China's first expedition to the plateau was in the 1970s, covering many fields, including geological structure, prehistoric life, geophysics, climate, zoology and botany. The new round of research will focus on the changes since then.


Zhu Liping Jordan 1 Heiress For Sale , a CAS research fellow leading the lake observation team, told Xinhua that the surface of Serling Tso Lake had expanded 40 percent between 1976 and 2009. Since 1990, water in the plateau's 1,000 lakes has increased by 100 billion cubic meters.


"Glaciers on the Tibetan plateau are in retreat due to rising temperatures. Research shows that glacier ice has decreased by 8,000 square kilometers, or 15 percent, due to climate change. In the long-term Jordan 1 Pinnacle For Sale , it will have a negative impact on the ecology of the downstream region," Li said, adding that permafrost melting would also lead to desertification and geo-engineering problems.


A 2015 CAS report predicted that more than 80 percent of Tibetan Plateau permafrost could be gone by the year 2100, and that almost 40 percent of it would be gone within the "near future."


The report said the plateau has already shown increasing desertification, mainly around the source region of the Yangtze River, where the desert area has reached 33,200 square kilometers Jordan 1 Storm Blue For Sale , or 66 percent of the total desert land around all the headwaters of China.


Li added that human activities, such as overgrazing and illegal mining have also affected the plateau's ecosystem.


Despite that, experts agreed that the overall situation of the ecological system on the Tibetan plateau is improving.


The CAS report said the Tibetan plateau remains one of the world's cleanest regions. Pollutant levels recorded on the plateau are similar to those seen across the Arctic, and remain remarkably lower than densely-populated areas. The report attributed it to the efforts of forestry conservation and rest. Royce Freeman Jersey Roquan Smith Jersey Richard Sherman Jersey Authentic Patrick Mahomes Jersey Authentic Nick Foles Jersey Leonard Fournette Youth Jersey Kirk Cousins Kids Jersey Josh Rosen Cardinals Jersey Josh Allen Bills Jersey J.J. Watt Texans Jersey