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Flood crisis: In less than two decades, the number of people exposed to flood risks rose by 1.5 crore, around nine percent of the country's population, due to human settlements and infrastructural developments in floodplains, says a study.
A study team led by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) created a technology that uses algorithms and artificial intelligence, in its initial experiments, which was capable of identifying those places in Africa with the highest access to drinkable groundwater, with a success rate of about 90%.
Paper Reviewed
Ahmad, S., Israr, M., Liu, S., Hayat, H., Gul, J., Wajid, S., Ashraf, M., Baig, S.U. and Tahir, A.A. 2020. Spatio-temporal trends in snow extent and their linkage to hydro-climatological and topographical factors in the Chitral River Basin (Hindukush, Pakistan).
Geocarto International
35: 711-734.
Among the seemingly endless predictions of climate alarmism is the concern that rising temperatures are reducing planetary snow cover. But is this correct?
A recent paper by Sun
et al. (2020) suggests it is not, reporting instead that a large portion of Eurasia shows no significant positive or negative interannual trends of snow cover extent from 2000 to 2016. In the present review, we report the findings of another peer-reviewed paper published in 2020 that also undermines climate alarmist claims.