The international success of Chinese-produced electric tricycles are representative of the current global appeal of made-in-China products. As the consumption market of the world's second-largest economy is upgraded and diversified, domestic brands have gradually shed their former image of being cheap...
The patterns are not only mesmerizing, but they also reflect where sediment and runoff may make water appear a muddy brown color and where microscopic plants, called phytoplankton, collect in nutrient-rich waters, often tinting it light green. Phytoplankton use chlorophyll, which is a ...
Water appears blue for two important reasons. In small quantities water appears colorless, but water actually has an intrinsic blue color caused by the slight absorption of light at red wavelengths. For larger bodies of water—ponds, rivers, lakes, and oceans—water appears blue on clear days ...
If you struggle with food in general or you’re a little particular, ask the cafe or restaurant to make something off the menu. Most places are happy to do it if they get notice or you request ingredients to be put together that they already have in other dishes. Once you get more ex...
Yet as the buzz grows, I find myself pondering why this vehicle, which has long been popular across China, has only recently made waves overseas. If you were to journey into China's rural areas, you would find that these vehicles are almost ubiquitous. ...
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Forests emit large quantities of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), with these emissions increasing with rising temperatures. VOCs react chemically in the atmosphere, affecting theconcentrations of methane and ozone, which are also greenhouse gases. We find the enhanced VOC emissions from greater forest...
small and medium businesses struggle to obtain such financing at reasonable rates given banks and their suppliers do not lend to them given difficulty in assessing credit risk. Withthe global trade finance gap sitting at $1.7 trillion, numerous businesses are forced to contend with everything from...
Maritime law, also known as admiralty law, is a body of laws, conventions, and treaties that govern private maritime business and other nautical matters, such as shipping or offenses occurring on open water. International rules governing the use of the oceans and seas are known as the Law of...
“There are not many time-series studies in the Amazon, and that is a gap in scientific information. Therefore, we decided to come back to see how change had taken place in the landscape and its effects on those streams,” Leal says....