Europe experienced its hottest summer on record in 2022, while extreme rainfall caused disastrous flooding in Pakistan. In the UK, households and water companies are already being urged to focus on saving water as officials prepare for another dry, hot summer. This ...
According to the agreements signed by Turkey, Russia and Iran last September in Sochi, Ankara would have the task of curbing the terrorist militias of the north-west of Syria, supporting the military actions of the NLF, but the resounding advance of HTS at al-Atareb, just like at Darat Iz...
Welcome to year four of everything I’m reading, watching and listening to in regard to the multiple planetary crises’ we face (the polycrisis), as well as articles on important social issues, because how societies function is fundamental if we want to have a stable e...
but also, because the underlying theme really is the realization that climate change is not something of the future, but rather, something of the present, and key lessons learned in that important area of study happened in the American West (fires) the South and Midwest (droughts, crop failur...
Bed nets are the commonest malaria prevention tool and arguably the most cost-effective. Their efficacy is because they prevent mosquito bites (a function of physical durability and integrity), and kill mosquitoes (a function of chemical content and mosq
What has been the damage so far? Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on August 30 the floods were “the worst in the country’s history” and estimated the calamity had caused more than $10 billion in damages to infrastructure, homes and farms. ...
Table 1. The rural ecological environment governance efficiency index system. The governance of the rural production environment mainly aims at the problems caused by the various natural and artificial transformations in the survival and development of agricultural organisms. The destruction of the rural...
have been substantially affected by climate change; for instance, Mosey et al. (2010) found that, in Indonesia, climate change has caused water scarcity, reduced soil moisture, lowered soil fertility, and increased precipitation and evaporation. These have reduced the country’s agricultural ...
The findings of a recent study show a 26.4% increase in US floods by 2050 under intermediate climate change scenarios of RCP4.5 [8]. In 2021, Hurricane Ida caused an estimated $16 to 24 billion in flooding damage in the Northeastern United States, making it the most expensive storm to ...
Earthquakes are naturally occurring, unpredictable hazards that could cause a considerable amount of damage to communities and their economies. From 1980 to 2018, 115 catastrophic earthquake and tsunami events caused 806,134 fatalities, US$885 billion in overall losses, and US$119 billion in insured...