Maybe you know floods droughts earthquakes sandstorms and so on. But have you ever heard of typhoons? Typhoons are some of the worst storms usually around the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea. Most happen in July August and September. How does a typhoon happen? When lots of sea wate...
These people are not enough to bring a devastating disaster, such as: dust storms, floods, ground subsidence, etc. Here I call on you: to protect the environment in Beijing is to protect the homes we live in. I would like to propose several initiatives: If there is no urgent business, ...
This colorfully illustrated book explains why floods happen, tells about the damage they create, and gives examples of how people can be prepared for floods.Lorraine Jean Hopping
Is there some kind of historical memory and folk wisdom that ensures that a community remembers about very extreme phenomena, such as catastrophic floods, and learns to establish new settlements in safer locations? We tested a unique set of empirical data on 1293 settlements founded in the course...
Like many other natural disasters, floods can happen with little or no warning. Floodwater moves quickly and it is known to pull trees out of the ground, wash away buildings and cause bridges to come down. Of course, drowning(溺死) is a danger during a flood, not ...
How does terracing prevent soil erosion? How do hurricanes cause erosion? How is sheet erosion different from gully erosion? How does deposition create a floodplain? How does sheet erosion happen? How can coastal erosion be controlled? How do breakwaters affect coastal erosion?
But then we wonder why terrible things happen, such as floods and the pandemic, and we don't have the capacity to link them to our treatment of the environment. Q: What gives you hope? A: My children give me hope. The youth really embrace, from the heart, this awareness of the fu...
Floods of this sort block roadways, harm infrastructure, and back up storm drains. Around 37 percent of the global population lives within 62 miles (100 kilometers) of a coastline. Recent flood trends must have a lot of these people wondering about tidal science. What causes tides? Why do ...
All these different manifestations of intense weather happen because the interactions in the atmosphere can unfold in a variety of different ways, to vastly different effects. So, if the weather is calm and fair for your backyard barbeque, does that mean you should make backup plans indoors?
All these different manifestations of intense weather happen because the interactions in the atmosphere can unfold in a variety of different ways, to vastly different effects. So, if the weather is calm and fair for your backyard barbeque, does that mean you should make backup plans indoors?