We are in the storm before the calm, and it’s as intense as storms can be. During the Cold War, the geopolitical system had an anchor: the confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union. All other nations had three options. They could align with the US, align with the ...
7). Controlling forest age structure (Zhu et al., 2019) through a combination of harvesting when NPP slows and afforestation, the declining trend in forest NPP can be mitigated, although we should note that at most only about 54% of plantation forests in Hunan Province are allowed to be ...
Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency and intensity of heat waves, hurricanes and tropical storms, floods, droughts, wildfires, and other weather events [230]. These events can directly harm human health, and can also disrupt public health and health care systems. In 2022, the ...
When a hurricane or tropical storm strikes, people usually focus upon the winds and rain of a hurricane, but storm surges are often the most deadly part of a storm and can be a life-threatening occurrence. National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters warned of dangerous storm surges from the ...
We are in the storm before the calm, and it’s as intense as storms can be. During the Cold War, the geopolitical system had an anchor: the confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union. All other nations had three options. They could align with the US, align with the ...
In fact, known risks that are deemed to be of negligible probability – and thus outside the current risk assessment practices in both planning and engineering – could potentially be mitigated through better disaster risk reduction and response efforts. How, then, do we account for a hazard ...