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20. However, it was not clear whether river floods also generate such large canyon-flushing events27(Supplementary Discussion). It was also theorised that turbidity currents behave in a very different way to rivers;
Image:Firefighters at the scene of the blaze at a block of flats in Valencia. Pic: Reuters Image:Witnesses said the fire spread to the entire building. Pic: Reuters Valencia's assistant emergency services director, Jorge Suarez, told reporters that hours after the blaze started, firefighters wer...
Deglacial to Holocene variability in surface water characteristics and major floods in the Beaufort Sea Junjie Wu, Ruediger Stein, Kirsten Fahl, Nicole Syring, Seung-Il Nam, Jens Hefter, Gesine Mollenhauer & Walter Geibert Communications Earth & Environment volume 1, Article number: 27...
Floods This April period has had a deadly flood somewhere in the world nearly every day. This record storm is expected to dissipate in the next couple of days: Cyclone Fantala: Indian Ocean’s most powerful storm on record 28 people killed by floods in Ethiopia 24 killed as torrential rains...
Placards noted that the complex, in the spirit of the Ark, could “maintain critical research activities” during the grid loss and floods of a hundred-year storm. I tapped a jumbo touch screen on a wall, and a keyboard appeared, offering directions. I passed a digital triptych by the ...
Trees are useful to man in three very important ways: they provide him with wood and other products;they give him shade;and they help to prevent drought and floods. Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important. In...
Globally 11 of the last 12 years since 1995 were the warmest during the last 150 years with 1998 being the warmest in the previous century and 2005 in the current century. These temperature changes have been accompanied by large impacts on global precipitation, extreme events (floods, droughts,...
Urban land will face high fluvial flood risk against the background of climate change and urban expansion. The effect of urban spatial expansion, instead of densification of assets within existing urban cells, on flood risk has rarely been reported. Here
Hundred year floods are a yearly occurrence, the worst fires on record destroy huge areas of forest, hundreds of homes, and people die. Hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones rip through populated areas causing unprecedented damage, but Trump _still_ maintains that clim...