Natural resource-based projects represent an important sector in Canada’s economy, where the energy, mining, and forestry industries accounted for 17% of gross domestic product 2018 (Natural Resources Canada, 2019). Many are located on or near Indigenous lands, disproportionately impacting peoples (Gibson et al., 2017). The negative environmental impacts well documented (Koutouki 2018; Westman ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Fire risk Risk map Danger Damage potential Urban–wildland interface zone A forest fire risk model was designed and applied to a South American Mediterranean ecosystem, taking into consideration three analysis groups: fire risk; danger of fire spread, or propagation; and damage potential over economic threat values. The study area for development and validation of...

CRISPR-Cas loci encode for an adaptive immune system in prokaryotes that provides defense against viruses (1) and plasmids (2) that infect these organisms. CRISPR loci contain a series of repetitive sequences intercalated with short sequences derived from invading viruses and plasmids (3–5). These short sequences, called spacers, are acquired from the invader upon infection during an “immunizat...

Earthquake has always endangered cities. This article mainly focuses on the question “whether seismic damages could be diminished through the presentation a preventive operational pattern dealing with physical and nonphysical features of civil defense”. Tehran, the most populous metropolis among Iranian cities is to the south of Alborz mountain range, located on potentially dangerous fault- lin...

The article gives research data of indicators sanitary state the soils in Rivne region as for content microelements and heavy metals, such boron, manganese, zinc, cupre, plumb, cadmium, radiative caesium-137 soils, density radon flow out their surface, level its ecological safety. It is recommended to carry estimation safety districts, stimulators boron manganese according dependencies which ha...