The failure of the Mostiště embankment damThe reservoir volume division corresponds to the main purpose of the scheme - the supply of drinking water. The flood protection effect of the dam is relatively small; for bigger flood wave volumes it is practically negligible.Jaromír Říha...
The last time there was a fatal dam failure in Hawaii was in 2006, when seven people were killed after the Ka Loko dam on the island of Kauai collapsed and hundreds of gallons of water rushed downhill. Ogden said as far as he knows that's the last fatal dam failure in the United St...
“Subways are not for sleeping,” Bratton said at a recent news conference. “I know people have gotten out of work and are tired but we are going to start waking people up.” That might mean waking up a lot of people. Check this out from the New Yorker piece titled: “Let us ...
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At present, the cotton-top tamarin is greatly endangered because 95 per cent of its original habitat has been deforested and given over to palm oil farming, dam building and cattle grazing. Tamarins are also poached by dealers in the illegal wildlife trade. Consequently, the cotton-top tamarin...
Massachusetts was 38th with 1,267,046, the most lightning pulses of the six New England states, followed by Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont. Rhode Island was 48th with 190,992. LOOK: The most expensive weather and climate disasters in recent decades ...
In recent weeks, investors have increased their bets that the Bank of Japan will lift interest rates further and begin to reduce its purchases of government debt after it ended eight years of negative...
In addition, based on recent detection and delimitation efforts in Nova Scotia, HWA densities can be highly variable within a stand and even among the branches of a single tree making it problematic to conclusively delimit a population once it is discovered. Table 2.2. HWA survey methodology to...
A little town in Ohio named Springfield has a lot of recent Haitian immigrants. Given that there are about 11 million Haitians still in Haiti, the good people of Springfield can expect more. Many of these immigrants are from Port au Prince, shown above, a place that is to princes what Ro...
By AFP In recent weeks, a significant deployment of Ethiopian military forces has occurred in Amhara state, which has been the focal point of News 2017 Irecha was celebrated today in Addis Ababa city. October 4, 2024 This morning in Addis Ababa, Hadasinke, accompanied by a considerable gathe...