Climate change is emerged as an issue of great concern for the nations around world. It affects virtually all physical, biological and human systems on this planet. However, impacts are particularly severe highly climate sensitive environments like Himalayas. The well observed in Himalayas form increasing temperature, melting glaciers, formation glacial lakes, lakes outburst floods (GLOFs) even...

Energy independence and sustainable renewable energy sources are the two main components of security for Nepal. More than 2/3rd consumed in Nepal comes from biofuels waste about 1/4th coal petroleum products. With increasing number motor vehicles rising demand cooking gas, Nepal’s import bills recent years have reached over Rs. 200 billion. its vast water resources, has a great potential sustai...

Aim To compare the rapid shifts in body size of mainland and island populations a native rodent examine mechanisms underlying these changes. Location Thousand Island Lake, China, which was created 1959 when Xin'anjiang Dam constructed for generating hydroelectricity. Taxon The Chinese white-bellied rat, Niviventer confucianus. Methods Field surveys were conducted from 2015 to 2018 collect data ...

With the world’s oceans in crisis, citizen knowledge and awareness around riverine marine waste has become an increasingly crucial topic of study. For most investigations, spatial analysis centered on coastline, or specifically beach, i.e., space where respondents (urban, Northern, middle class), encounter litter. Yet, by focusing beach as primary analysis, studies have severely limited scope c...

Hydropower is the sole renewable energy source on grid in Cameroon, accounting for approximately 62% of this supply as 2019. So far, hydropower most attractive electricity country, with a technically exploitable capability around 115 TWh per year. However, actual output (943 kW) quite low, corresponding to about 7% country’s potential. The South Interconnected Network (SIN) zone, home potential...

1-year hourly wind speed data from two Burundian stations, namely Bujumbura and Muyinga, have been processed in this work to bring an efficient help for the planning installation of energy conversion systems (WECS) at those localities. Mean seasonal diurnal variations direction shear exponent derived. Two-parameter Weibull probability density functions (PDFs) fitting observed monthly annual rel...

In recent decades, Brazil has adopted a political approach focused on maintaining economic stability and consolidating inclusive social policies. However, despite repeated attempts, little progress been made in overcoming difficulties within the country making more competitive global market. Nevertheless, there seems to be an awakening certain consensus among scholars of Brazilian problems that...

In surficial sediments of Lake Piediluco, a small, riverine, regulated and heavily modified water body in the Central Italian Apennines, contamination by persistent organochlorine pollutants (POPs) was assessed. During spring autumn, six representative points were investigated. Reflecting substantial zonation pollution within this aquatic ecosystem, concentrations found to vary from site site. ...