Urbanization and climate change are contributing to severe flooding globally, damaging infrastructure, disrupting economies, and undermining human well-being. Approaches to make cities more resilient to floods are emerging, notably with the design of flood-resilient structures, but relatively little is kno...
How do volcanoes go extinct? How do tectonic plates interact with each other? How do volcanoes change their local landscape? Why are volcanoes not found at transform boundaries? How are geologic structures related to plate tectonics? How does composite volcano erupt?
When Dutch settlers arrived around 1700, they found a barren landscape. How to Protect Forests The good news is that efforts to curb deforestation are working. The rate of global deforestation has slowed from 7.8 million hectares per year in 1990–2000 to 4.7 million hectares per year in ...
(Fig.1). This confirms that people have historically tended to establish new settlements significantly closer to watercourses than settlements randomly located throughout the landscape would be. The median vertical distance has not changed systematically over the centuries (represented by the sequence of...
Natural landscape such as grasslands can trap and filter water resources, mitigating floods and droughts in the process. (Getty Images/Autumn Sky Photography/962974532-170667) Without natural barriers such as grasslands, we would lose a lot of the "buffe...
This illustration shows NASA's Mars Opportunity Rover, the second of the two Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the Red Planet in 2004 to search for signs of past life. NASA/JPL-Caltech It seems easy enough: If we can blast a man to the moon for a round of golf, why do we have...
Why are waves an important feature of the ocean surface? How can splash erosion be controlled? How does gravity cause erosion? How do tsunamis affect the geosphere? How does the type of landscape affect gully erosion? How does weathering affect sedimentary rocks?
extreme rainfall by capturing or slowing the flow of water, but also filter(过滤)particulates(微粒) and pollution from the water.“You can't manage storm water in a big way because it falls everywhere,” Rogers said.“You need to be able to manage storm water across the whole landscape. ...
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Flooding was found to be by far the most tweeted of the three in connection to climate change, followed by droughts and heat waves. It also led when comparing spikes of activity. The dominance of floods is highly prevalent from 2014 onwards, triggered by flooding events (extreme event factor...