NEW DELHI, April 19 (Xinhua) -- India's general election, which kicked off on Friday, will see nearly 1 billion voters deciding whether incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) can secure a third term in office. He is facing a challenge from an alliance...
Even in developed nations, where a plentiful supply of water is sometimes taken for granted, the value of water is increasing among the people and their governments. HowStuffWorks has already found that we can't manufacture water, so what exactly will happen if we run out? It's ...
is one of the greatest challenges we have on our hands, as well as the greatest opportunity. Communicating with clarity on these issues is vital. I know no one wants to spend any time on anything these days, but this is three and a half hours that...
Water is of interest to this account of the way solar energy flows through the Earth’s surface systems. In hydro power it gives up the energy it gained by being converted from a liquid to a gas, water vapour, lifted into the atmosphere by convection in air warmed by the ocean surface,...
Northeast Brazil is consequently drought-prone. Historically, famine and mass migration afflicted 100,000s of people and the most recent drought from 2012 to 2018 devastated livestock and crop producers, damaged regional economies and led to widespread water scarcity [3]. Download: Download high-res...
In simple terms, it can be defined as a natural trough bounded by mountains or hills on the surface of the earth sloping down to the lake, ocean or stream, which is created because of water or ice erosion. On this basis, the rivers or streams flowing through the valley act as the ...
The consequences of climate change now include, among others, intense droughts, water scarcity, severe fires, rising sea levels, flooding, melting polar ice, catastrophic storms and declining biodiversity.6. People are experiencing climate change in diverse ways. It affects our health, ability to ...
As a quick aside, should we talk about energy scarcity? For more than a century numerous inventors, Nikola Tesla is only one of them, have succeeded in extracting useful electric energy from the matrix of space. Tesla famously said“Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by...
The latter has changed so much about the earth and human societies in so little time that it makes more sense to be cautious than triumphant. Although food scarcity, when it occurs, is a localized problem, other kinds of scarcity are already here. Groundwater is alarmingly low in regions ...
scarcity of empirical studies on these professionals, who are subjected daily to a highly demanding and risky work, placing them in a situation of work-related stress with impacts on their mental and physical health and, also, on balance between work and family. In addition, the methodological ...