Category: 9. Environment

The U.K. recognized the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius’ claim to the Chagos Archipelago in an agreement signed May 22.

While Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam praised…

When powerful storms hit your city, which neighborhoods are most likely to flood? In many cities, they’re typically low-income areas. They may have poor drainage, or they lack protections such as seawalls.

New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward,…

Grasses growing in the shade of a solar array were only a little less productive than those growing nearby in open grassland during years of average and above-average rainfall – but in a dry year, the shaded plants grew much better than…

Grasses growing in the shade of a solar array were only a little less productive than those growing nearby in open grassland during years of average and above-average rainfall – but in a dry year, the shaded plants grew much better than…

Historical temporal evolutions of climate extremes

To investigate the historical changing trend of CEs in the UYRB, Fig. 2 shows temporal changes in EPIs (Fig. 2a–j) and ETIs (Fig. 2k–t) from 1960 to 2022. CDD and CWD are decreasing at…

Streamflow deficit characteristic based on threshold level method

Partition blocks

The seismic response characteristics across different zones of the study area are distinctly different. In the root area of the fan delta, the reservoir is thick with almost no shale, exhibiting broad and weak reflections, without…