This summer has been hot, but so far we have been spared mostly from the usual smokey season allowing most people to enjoy the outdoors. The people of Washington State enjoyed long camping trips on their favorite lake, day-long wakeboarding trips, weekend hikes in the mountains, or campfires...
This summer has been hot, but so far we have been spared mostly from the usual smokey season allowing most people to enjoy the outdoors. The people of Washington State enjoyed long camping trips on their favorite lake, day-long wakeboarding trips, weekend hikes in the mountains, or campfires...
According to numbers reported by theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention,mosquitos have proven to be the deadliest among all animals in the world. Much of that is due to mosquito-borne illnesses. The CDC says an average of 2,400 people die every year in the U.S. just from the West...
Cataclysm: The World’s Deadliest Single-Day Natural Disasters January 23, 1556 – Jiajing Great Earthquake – 830,000 dead “The Great Dying” “In the winter of 1556, an earthquake catastrophe occurred in the Shaanxi and Shanxi Provinces. …Various misfortunes took place. Mountains and rivers ...
Tibetan antelope survive in the Tibetan Plateau, a harsh ecosystem of semi-desert land and mountains, but their numbers have been slashed. by demand for their highly prized wool, calledshahtoosh. Here,Tibetan antelopegraze near Rongmar Township of Nyima County at the Chang Tang National Nature Re...
The majority of Helene’s victims were far from the coast, caught off guard as the storm unleashed more than 20 inches of rain in the mountains that quickly turned streams and rivers into raging torrents. I study hurricane history as a geographer a...
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Mountains of corpses: the deadliest attack of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in the city of Calcutta The 100th anniversary of the 1918鈥 19 influenza pandemic provides us an opportunity to study the properties, spread and impact of pandemics and devise new ... S Basu - 《Indian Journal of...
Thistick-borne bacterial diseaseis not limited to the Rocky Mountains; it occurs in many states and most commonlyreportedin North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Symptoms include fever, body aches and a spotted rash.
Mount Huashan – the world’s most dangerous hike challenges even the most daring thrill-seekers to take on a death-defying and exhilarating adventure. It consists patches of treacherous stairs, steep mountains, rickety planks, and clumsy iron stairs that do their best to dampen the spirit. No...