2021a, 2021b) showed that vegetation greening caused more water consumption (i.e., increased ET and decreased water yield) and might increase the risk of water scarcity in most of northern China. Nevertheless, different regions showed different water yield responses to vegetation changes. Such ...
HEV leads to approximately 3.3 million symptomatic cases of acute hepatitis globally. The distribution of HEVs by genotype and geographic location is uneven and particularly prevalent in developing regions like South Asia, Africa, rural China, and Latin America. Here, genotypes 1 and 2 of HEV, wh...
Deems H (2010) Vulnerability of rural communities in the Mediterranean region to climate change and water scarcity: the case of Cyprus”. Master Dissertation, Universidad de Barcelona Engle N, Bredmond A, Malone E, Moss R (2014) Towards a resilience indicator framework for making climate-change...
Cholera is spread when people eat food or drink water that has been contaminated with feces (excreted waste) containing Vibrio cholerae. Risk factors for epidemics of cholera include unsanitary and crowded living conditions, war, famine (scarcity of food), and natural disaster. For example, ...
Woody vegetation in grasslands and savannas has increased worldwide over the past 100–200 years. This phenomenon of “woody plant encroachment” (WPE) has been documented to occur at different times but at comparable rates in rangelands of the Americas, Australia, and southern Africa. The objecti...
In Tamarix the stamens are separate; in Myricaria they are united. The fruit is a capsule with numerous seeds; each seed has a long tuft of hairs at one end. Tamarisks are valued for their ability to withstand drought, soil salinity, and salt-water spray. The salt cedar, or French ...
waterpressureprovided by theaquifer’sfresh water declines and salt water is able to push into and contaminate the aquifer, rendering the wells above useless. For example, onHilton Head Island, inSouth Carolina, only two of a dozen original underground wells used to supply drinking water remained...
The production of SDSs worldwide is influenced by the SDNA, South Africa, Arabia, Central Asia, West and East China, North and South America, and Australia. Massive regional dust plumes originate from the SDNA, which is the dustiest region in the world, east of the Syrian Desert, ...
water Article An In-Depth Analysis of Physical Blue and Green Water Scarcity in Agriculture in Terms of Causes and Events and Perceived Amenability to Economic Interpretation Kalomoira Zisopoulou 1 and Dionysia Panagoulia 2,* 1 Travaux Publics, Becket House, London SE1 7EU, UK; kal.evg.ziso...