根据划线词上文“A pressing concern is the impact the increased flooding and severe droughts will have on a world (一个紧迫的问题是洪水和严重干旱的增加将对世界产生的影响)”可知,像洪水、干旱这样的灾难给世界带来的应该是消极的影响,故资源应该是被一系列灾难消耗殆尽,故划线词与consumed词义相近。故选B...
Perhaps you were glued to the news in 2018 as the world followed the ultimately successful efforts in Thailand to rescue the 12 young boys of a soccer team and their assistant coach from the Tham Luang Nang Non cave who had become trapped by sudden flooding. If you haven’t checked in on...
Using lake sediment archives to improve understanding of flood magnitude and frequency: recent extreme flooding in northwest UKWe present the first quantitative reconstruction of palaeofloods using lake sediments for the UK and show that for a large catchment in NW England the cluster of devastating ...
While the ground may feel stable under your feet, it's always moving ever so slightly — not just horizontally with the movement of tectonic plates, but also vertically. And New York City, in particular, is sinking. (No, it's not because of all the recent flooding that has seen commuter...
Over the past decade, California has experienced lasting droughts, wildfires, heavy rainfalls, and floods. It seems that the state is either on fire or in flooding with little in between. Researchers estimate that by the end of this century, the frequency of climate whiplash will jump by 25 ...
Wind-generated ocean waves drive important coastal processes that determine flooding and erosion. Ocean warming has been one factor affecting waves globally. Most studies have focused on studying parameters such as wave heights, but a systematic, global
In late September, heavy rains led to flash flooding in the New York City metro area.The National Weather Servicereported that on Friday, September 29, more rain fell in a single day at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport than any day since 1948. ...
Several other studies suggested that large-scale flooding and inundation in central eastern China would force major relocations of human settlements away from floodplain areas, resulting in the collapse of prehistoric cultures (e.g., Xie et al., 2013). In addition, other studies argued that ...
East of Eurasia, moist air is transported poleward, forming the Meiyu–Baiu front over East Asia in late June and early July. Recently, unusually heavy rainfall may have increased, causing catastrophic flooding in East Asia. Here, unique 23-year precipit
The recent flooding in Germany has been estimated to have been a 1 in 100-year event. Even if there are unpredictable, rare events, such as 1 in 1,000-years, that is a probability estimate and doesn’t preclude the possibility of them occurring more frequently, even back-to-back. If ...