The sowing area of cotton will continue to decrease. It is estimated that the cotton planting area in 2010 will be 72 million 600 thousand mu, 2.3% lower than that of last year. The oil sown area is basically stable, and the sown area is expected to be 207 million mu, of which the ...
The rivers Ganga and Brahmaputra are fed by the snow of the higher peaks, and these also protect from the cold biting winds o North Asia. But it is this Himalayan range again, which is one of the biggest hotspots of natural disasters, because they are still growing and young mountains ...
The accelerating global release of plastic particles into the environment seems unending, with long-term consequences for water quality, biodiversity, biological conservation, and human health. In this paper, we review the formation, presence, and toxicity of plastic particles in water, land, and ...
The breach of urban planning, water sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure enabling food and water exposure at an alarming rate to contamination with Vibrio cholerae organisms is the major cause of cholera outbreaks. The purpose of this chapter is to ide
Thermal anomalies and fluid geochemistry framework in occurrence of the 2000-2001 Nizza Monferrate seismic sequence (northern Italy): Episodic changes in the fault zone heat flow or chemical mixing phenomena?natural disastersflood managementeastern India...
In Cameroon, there is a constant threat of natural disasters that occur almost every year. Previous work on landslides across the country have been conducted and well documented [26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34]. However, most of these studies were limited to field mapping and satellite imagery...
The change in land use and land cover in upstream watersheds will change the features of drainage systems such that they will impact surface overflow and affect the infiltration capacity of a land surface, which is one of the factors that contributes to flooding. The key objective of this stud...