but the academic circle has never agreed on the causes of desertification. A common misunderstanding is that a shortage of precipitation causes the desertification—even the land in some barren areas will soon recover after the rain falls. In fact, more often than not, human activities are respon...
The military conflict in Ukraine has been going for nearly one and a half years without a clear end in sight. And just this past June, the Wagner Group incident has made the situation even more unpredictable. What really happened with the Wagner Group? How might the incident...
Zhaos bureau has met with four other relevant departments on several occasions. What they produced is not a feasible solution but an echo or rewording of the Central Government decree, according to Luo Wei from Shenzhen Municipal Legal Affairs Bureau, who is responsible for reviewing this “echo"...
Summary The COP26 process highlighted the need for action from finance providers, not only to decarbonize their own balance sheets but also to help businesses in the real economy decarbonize. The net-zero transition presents a challenge — it is a new area of financing for ...
Moreover, the initiative to plant 7 million wild trees in royal reserves demonstrates a targeted effort to enhance the natural habitats within these pristine areas. Engagement by the public and private sectors in vegetation development and combating desertification underscores the collaborative approach nee...
Deep learning is generating new insights into the dynamics of complex natural systems and how to identify early signals of tipping into irreversible and potentially catastrophic environmental change, such as desertification of the Amazon, melting of the Greenland ice sheet, or methane released by ...
Long-term involvement of stakeholders in research projects on desertification and land degradation: How has their perception of the issues changed and what strategies have emerged for combating desertification?[J] . Nichola Geeson,Giovanni Quaranta,Rosanna Salvia,Jane Brandt.Journal of Arid Environments ...
“Inherent in the regenerative concept is thinking larger than yourself. For it to work, you have to be prepared to give something to get something,” says Lisa Lindström, EY Global Innovation and Experience Design Leader. “In a business sense it means that everything ha...
7 The need to put the building occupiers back into the equation of what makes an adequate building has made people more interested in the process of post-occupancy evaluation of building performance to ensure that lessons are properly learnt from such failures.8 Since then there has been ...
In recent years, remote sensing has become an important technique for vegetation monitoring [6]. In particular, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) has been developed, which can reflect vegetation growth and has been widely used to analyze vegetation-cover changes. There are many platf...