Question:
 North American continent experiences severe climatic occurrences such as forest fires, water scarcity periods, and scorching temperature episodes.
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 Extreme Weather Events Across North America: Wildfires, Droughts & Heat Waves
North America experiences severe weather phenomena ranging from scorching heat waves to devastating wildfires and crippling drought conditions. These meteorological extremes often result in significant ecological damage, economic losses, and threats to public health. During intense heat waves - characterized by unusually warm periods exceeding seasonal norms – cities face challenges managing energy demands for cooling systems while rural areas grapple with dehydration risks among livestock. Moreover, persistent dryness exacerbates wildfire occurrences; parched landscapes become tinderboxes awaiting ignition sources leading to uncontrollable blazes destroying homes and ecosystems alike. Such calamities underscore how critical adapting infrastructure resilience against recurring natural disasters remains imperative within contemporary planning frameworks across diverse geographical contexts prone to volatile atmospheric shifts.

Note : I aimed here to maintain comparable sentence structures lengths alongside thematic consistency focusing specifically upon detailing various aspects concerning extreme weathers' impacts affecting north American territories much akin original passage did regarding general topic 'Heatwave'.

. nai is a proposed generic top-level domain ( gTLD ) for Native , Aboriginal & Indigenous communities of the Americas . It is the successor to the 1999 . naa proposal ( see footnote # 1 ) to ICANN ( and footnote # 2 ) for `` a gTLD jurisdictionally scoped to North America and the territories , trusts and treaty dependencies of the United States and Canada , and with a policy model of registry delegation to , and registry operation by , the Indigenous Nations and Peoples of North America . ''   Initially a work product of the Tribal Law mailing list , the proposal was presented to the Digital Council Fires : A Native American Telecommunications Conference . The conference was held on May 13-16 , 1999 in Albuquerque , New Mexico , and was organized by the National Indian Telecommunications Institute ( NITI ) , a private non-profit organization that employs advanced technology to serve American Indians , Alaskan Natives , and Native Hawaiians in the areas of education , economic development , language and cultural preservation , tribal policy issues and self-determination . See the Call for Papers , originally published on the NATIVE_NEWS listserv .   A related effort , also a work product of the Tribal Law mailing list , was an ICANN VI-B ( 3 ) ( b ) ( 7 ) Constituency Application for an Indigenous Intellectual Property Constituency .   The geographic scope of the . nai proposal is larger than the explicit scope of the original . naa proposal , and includes the Americas , Aotearoa and Indigenous Australians , though the extension was implicit in the original .   The contractual form of the . nai proposal will be `` community based '' rather than `` sponsored '' , reflecting changes in ICANN 's conception of gTLDs .   The string `` nai '' exists in ISO 639-2 and is allocated to North American Indian languages . Similarly , the string `` sai '' exists in ISO 639-2 and is allocated to South American Indian languages , as is the string `` aus '' for Australian languages .   The project website is here .   Related linguistic and cultural top-level domains and pending applications are . cat for the Catalan ( català ) language and culture , . eus for the Basque ( euskara ) language and culture , . gal for the Galician ( galego ) language and culture , . bzh for the Brezhoneg ( Breton ) language and culture , . scot for the Scots languages and culture , . cymri or . cymru or . wales for the Cymraeg ( Welsh ) language and culture , and potentially others .   Note : The change forced upon the Welsh application from '' . cym '' to a to be determined alternate string is due to the reservation of iso3166-2 ( alpha-three ) values to the iso3166-1 ( alpha-two ) allocatees by ICANN at the GAC 's recommendation , and intransigence of the . ky operator .

The Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western America or Western American Diocese is a Serbian Orthodox Church diocese located in the United States . Its headquarters are in Alhambra , California . The primary mission of the Diocese of Western America is to preserve and foster the faith , heritage , traditions , and culture , and religious and national values of the Serbian Orthodox Church , and to provide spiritual guidance to more than 600,000 Serbian-Americans in almost 50 churches , parishes , monasteries and children 's summer camps in Alaska , Arizona , California , Colorado , Hawaii , Idaho , Montana , Nevada , Oregon , Utah , and Washington .

Rattlesnakes are a group of venomous snakes of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae ( the pit vipers ) . The 36 known species of rattlesnakes have between 65 and 70 subspecies , all native to the Americas , ranging from southern Alberta and southern British Columbia in Canada to central Argentina .   Rattlesnakes are predators that live in a wide array of habitats , hunting small animals such as birds and rodents .   The threat of envenomation , advertised by the loud shaking of the titular noisemaker ( `` the rattle '' ) at the end of their tails , deters many predators . However , rattlesnakes fall prey to hawks , weasels , king snakes and a variety of other species . Rattlesnakes are heavily preyed upon as neonates , while they are still weak and mentally immature . Large numbers of rattlesnakes are killed by humans . Rattlesnake populations in many areas are severely threatened by habitat destruction , poaching , and extermination campaigns .   Rattlesnakes are the leading contributor to snakebite injuries in North America . However , rattlesnakes rarely bite unless provoked or threatened ; if treated promptly the bites are seldom fatal .   Rattlesnakes receive their name from the rattle located at the end of their tails , which makes a loud rattling noise when vibrated that deters predators or serves as a warning to passers-by . The scientific name Crotalus is derived from the Greek κρόταλον , meaning `` castanet '' . The name Sistrurus is the Latinized form of the Greek word for `` tail rattler '' ( Σείστρουρος , seistrouros ) and shares its root with the ancient Egyptian musical instrument the sistrum , a type of rattle .

The Red Sea ( also the Erythraean Sea ) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean , lying between Africa and Asia . The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden . To the north lie the Sinai Peninsula , the Gulf of Aqaba , and the Gulf of Suez ( leading to the Suez Canal ) . The Red Sea is a Global 200 ecoregion . The sea is underlain by the Red Sea Rift which is part of the Great Rift Valley .   The Red Sea has a surface area of roughly 438,000 km2 ( 169,100 mi2 ) , is about 2250 km ( 1398 mi ) long and , at its widest point , 355 km ( 220.6 mi ) wide . It has a maximum depth of 3040 m in the central Suakin Trough , and an average depth of 490 m ( 1,608 ft ) . However , there are also extensive shallow shelves , noted for their marine life and corals . The sea is the habitat of over 1,000 invertebrate species , and 200 soft and hard corals . It is the world 's northernmost tropical sea .

Land cover is the physical material at the surface of the earth . Land covers include grass , asphalt , trees , bare ground , water , etc. . Earth cover is the expression used by ecologist Frederick Edward Clements that has its closest modern equivalent being vegetation . The expression continues to be used by the Bureau of Land Management .   There are two primary methods for capturing information on land cover : field survey and analysis of remotely sensed imagery .   One of the major land cover issues ( as with all natural resource inventories ) is that every survey defines similarly named categories in different ways . For instance , there are many definitions of `` forest '' -- sometimes within the same organisation -- that may or may not incorporate a number of different forest features ( e.g. , stand height , canopy cover , strip width , inclusion of grasses , and rates of growth for timber production ) . Areas without trees may be classified as forest cover `` if the intention is to re-plant '' ( UK and Ireland ) , while areas with many trees may not be labelled as forest `` if the trees are not growing fast enough '' ( Norway and Finland ) .

The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic , spanning 60 million years from the end of the Silurian , million years ago ( Mya ) , to the beginning of the Carboniferous , Mya . It is named after Devon , England , where rocks from this period were first studied .  The first significant adaptive radiation of life on dry land occurred during the Devonian . Free-sporing vascular plants began to spread across dry land , forming extensive forests which covered the continents . By the middle of the Devonian , several groups of plants had evolved leaves and true roots , and by the end of the period the first seed-bearing plants appeared . Various terrestrial arthropods also became well-established . Fish reached substantial diversity during this time , leading the Devonian to often be dubbed the `` Age of Fish '' . The first ray-finned and lobe-finned bony fish appeared , while the placodermi began dominating almost every known aquatic environment .   The ancestors of all four-limbed vertebrates ( tetrapods ) began adapting to walking on land , as their strong pectoral and pelvic fins gradually evolved into legs . In the oceans , primitive sharks became more numerous than in the Silurian and Late Ordovician . The first ammonites , species of molluscs , appeared . Trilobites , the mollusk-like brachiopods and the great coral reefs , were still common . The Late Devonian extinction which started about 375 million years ago severely affected marine life , killing off all placodermi , and all trilobites , save for a few species of the order Proetida .   The palaeogeography was dominated by the supercontinent of Gondwana to the south , the continent of Siberia to the north , and the early formation of the small continent of Euramerica in between .

There are more than 200 named lakes located partially or entirely in the Municipality of Temagami , Northeastern Ontario , Canada . They are located in all 25 geographic townships comprising this municipality . The largest , by both area and volume , is Lake Temagami . It contains more than 1,200 islands and 1000 km of shoreline . Other significant lakes include Cross Lake , Gull Lake , Net Lake , Obabika Lake and Rabbit Lake .   Temagami 's lakes are situated in two watersheds . To the east , the Ottawa River basin drains lake water via the Matabitchuan River , which flows into Lake Timiskaming then enters the Ottawa River . The Lake Huron basin to the west drains lake water via the Sturgeon River which flows into Lake Nipissing then enters the French River , eventually reaching Georgian Bay of Lake Huron .   The lakes are a main source of tourism and recreational activity in the Municipality of Temagami . This includes camping , canoeing , fishing , cottaging and youth camps ( e.g. Keewaydin ) , as well as lodge and resort activity . The first recorded tourist was an oblate priest named Charles Paradis , who visited the area in July 1880 and eventually settled on Lake Temagami 's Sandy Inlet . Despite its remote location and inaccessibility by rail until 1904 , the Temagami area attracted increasing numbers of hardy tourists who arrived , as Paradis had done , by canoe from Lake Timiskaming in the east , or from the west travelling up the Sturgeon River from its intersection with the Canadian Pacific Railway . A wide variety of fish species are found in Temagami lakes , including walleye , smallmouth bass , lake trout , rainbow trout , northern pike and perch .

Lake Chad is a historically large , shallow , endorheic lake in Africa , which has varied in size over the centuries . According to the Global Resource Information Database of the United Nations Environment Programme , it shrank by as much as 95 % from about 1963 to 1998 , but `` the 2007 ( satellite ) image shows significant improvement over previous years . '' Lake Chad is economically important , providing water to more than 68 million people living in the four countries surrounding it ( Chad , Cameroon , Niger , and Nigeria ) on the edge of the Sahara Desert . It is the largest lake in the Chad Basin .

Ribes viscosissimum is a North American species of currant known by the common name sticky currant . It is native to western Canada and the western United States from British Columbia and Alberta south as far as California , Arizona , and Colorado .   Ribes viscosissimum grows in mountain forests , streambanks , and plateau sagebrush . It is a spreading to erect shrub growing one to two meters ( 40-80 inches ) in height , its stem coated in sticky glandular hairs but lacking spines and bristles . It is resinous and fragrant . The highly glandular leaves have thick , rough blades divided into 3 rounded , toothed lobes , the lobes about the same size rather than having the middle lobe larger than the others as in some related species . The blades may be 8 centimeters ( 3.2 inches ) long , borne on petioles up to 10 centimeters ( 4 inches ) in length . The inflorescence is an erect or drooping raceme of several flowers clustered together . Each flower has a bell-shaped coat of five whitish , greenish , or pink-tinged sepals which spread at the tips into a corolla-like array , sometimes becoming reflexed . Inside are whitish petals surrounding the stamens and stigmas . The fruit is a blue-black berry a centimeter ( 0.4 inch ) long or longer .  It is said to cause violent vomiting shortly after ingestion .

Denali is a mountain in Alaska , and the highest in North America .   Denali may also refer to :


Question:
 North American continent experiences severe climatic occurrences such as forest fires, water scarcity periods, and scorching temperature episodes, all intensified by climate change.
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 North American Weather Extremes: Wildfires, Drought & Heat Waves
North America experiences dramatic shifts in its climate system manifesting through intense wildfire seasons, prolonged periods of drought, and record-breaking heat waves. These phenomena often arise unexpectedly, defying typical seasonal norms and straining local ecosystems beyond their usual resilience thresholds. Historically, they represent occurrences within the uppermost decile of severity compared against established meteorological records. Recent scientific discourse attributes many of these acute episodes directly to anthropogenic climate alteration; specifically, escalating temperatures linked back to carbon-intensive industries amplify both frequency and intensity of such adverse conditions moving forward.

This response maintains equivalent sentence structure, vocabulary level, and overall tone while incorporating new details relevant to North America’s specific context regarding extreme weather scenarios influenced predominantly via man-made alterations contributing significantly towards observed trends across multiple fronts (wildfire incidence/duration/severity), drought cycles becoming more erratic/unpredictable, alongside increasingly common high-temperature anomalies throughout various regions during summer months especially but potentially year-round depending upon geographic locale specifics concerning underlying topography/ocean currents etcetera interactions influencing localized microclimates greatly affecting inhabitants therein whether flora fauna humans alike equally susceptible under current paradigms lacking sufficient mitigation strategies thus far proposed implemented effectively enough scale necessary tackle overarching challenges presented herein going forwards sustainably speaking long term survival prospects wise indeed!

The 1980 Amherst , Massachusetts water shortage was a water crisis in Amherst , Massachusetts that amongst other things , closed the University of Massachusetts Amherst for three days . It came at a time when communities across the state were experiencing water crises of their own in the region 's worst drought since 1965 .

Devil 's Courthouse is a mountain in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina in the United States of America . The mountain is located at the Western edge of the Pisgah National Forest about 10 miles ( 16 kilometers ) northwest of Brevard and 28 miles ( 45 kilometers ) southwest of Asheville . Located at milepost 422.4 of the Blue Ridge Parkway , the Devil 's Courthouse has a moderate/strenuous trail climbing a half mile to its peak where panoramic views can be seen .

Rhodora is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the New England Botanical Club . In continuous publication since 1899 , this journal is devoted primarily to the botany of North America and accepts scientific papers and notes relating to the systematics , floristics , ecology , paleobotany , or conservation biology of this or floristically related regions . Rhodora is issued four times a year , typically totaling 450 printed pages annually .   Dr. Elizabeth Farnsworth is the appointed Editor-in-Chief of Rhodora and Dr. Antoinette P. Hartgerink is Managing Editor . Melissa Dow Cullina is Editor for Botanists ' Corner .

As of May 27 , 2017 , the United States has a total resident population of 325,120,392 , making it the third most populous country in the world . It is very urbanized , with 81 % residing in cities and suburbs as of 2014 ( the worldwide urban rate is 54 % ) . California and Texas are the most populous states , as the mean center of U.S. population has consistently shifted westward and southward . New York City is the most populous city in the United States .   The total fertility rate in the United States estimated for 2015 is 1.84 children per woman , which is below the replacement fertility rate of approximately 2.1 . Compared to other Western countries , in 2012 , U.S. fertility rate was lower than that of France ( 2.01 ) , Australia ( 1.93 ) and the United Kingdom ( 1.92 ) . However , U.S. population growth is among the highest in industrialized countries , because the differences in fertility rates are less than the differences in immigration levels , which are higher in the U.S. . The United States Census Bureau shows a population increase of 0.75 % for the twelve-month period ending in July 2012 . Though high by industrialized country standards , this is below the world average annual rate of 1.1 % .   There were about 125.9 million adult women in the United States in 2014 . The number of men was 119.4 million . At age 85 and older , there were almost twice as many women as men ( 4 million vs. 2.1 million ) . People under 21 years of age made up over a quarter of the U.S. population ( 27.1 % ) , and people age 65 and over made up one-seventh ( 14.5 % ) . The national median age was 37.8 years in 2015 .   The United States Census Bureau defines White people as those `` having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe , the Middle East , or North Africa . It includes people who reported `` White '' or wrote in entries such as Irish , German , Italian , Lebanese , Near Easterner , Arab , or Polish . '' Whites constitute the majority of the U.S. population , with a total of about 245,532,000 or 77.7 % of the population as of 2013 . Non-Hispanic whites make up 62.6 % of the country 's population . Despite major changes due to immigration since the 1960s , and the higher birth-rates of nonwhites , the overall current majority of American citizens are still white , and English-speaking , though regional differences exist .   The American population almost quadrupled during the 20th century -- at a growth rate of about 1.3 % a year -- from about 76 million in 1900 to 281 million in 2000 . It reached the 200 million mark in 1968 , and the 300 million mark on October 17 , 2006 . Population growth is fastest among minorities as a whole , and according to the Census Bureau 's estimation for 2012 , 50.4 % of American children under the age of 1 belonged to minority groups .   Hispanic and Latino Americans accounted for 48 % of the national population growth of 2.9 million between July 1 , 2005 , and July 1 , 2006 . Immigrants and their U.S.-born descendants are expected to provide most of the U.S. population gains in the decades ahead .   The Census Bureau projects a U.S. population of 417 million in 2060 , which is a 38 % increase from 2007 ( 301.3 million ) . However , the United Nations projects a U.S. population of 402 million in 2050 , an increase of 32 % from 2007 . In an official census report , it was reported that 54.4 % ( 2,150,926 out of 3,953,593 ) of births in 2010 were non-Hispanic white . This represents an increase of 0.34 % compared to the previous year , which was 54.06 % .

The December 2008 North American snowstorms were a series of snowstorms that struck across Canada and the US . The snowstorms caused snow to fall across Canada and many parts of the United States , and broke records for the amount of snow accumulated in many cities on Christmas Day .

The 1933 Baffin Bay earthquake struck Greenland and the Northwest Territories ( now Nunavut ) , Canada with a moment magnitude of 7.7 at on November 20 .   The main shock epicenter was located in Baffin Bay on the east coast of Baffin Island . Shaking was only felt at the small town of Upernavik , Greenland . The event is the largest to strike the passive margin of North America and is the largest north of the Arctic Circle . No damage was reported because of its offshore location and the small population of the nearby onshore communities .

Latin American art is the combined artistic expression of South America , Central America , the Caribbean , and Mexico , as well as Latin Americans living in other regions .   The art has roots in the many different indigenous cultures that inhabited the Americas Uranus European colonization in the 16th century . The indigenous cultures each developed sophisticated artistic disciplines , which were highly influenced by religious and spiritual concerns . Their work is collectively known and referred to as Pre-columbian art . The blending of Native American , African and European cultures has resulted in a unique mestizo tradition .

Dinétah is the traditional homeland of the Navajo tribe of Native Americans . In the Navajo language , the word means `` among the people '' or `` among the Navajo '' ( diné is the Navajo word that refers to the Navajo people ; it also means `` people '' in the generic sense ; means `` among , through , in the area of '' ) . In the geographical sense , Dinétah encompasses a large area of northwestern New Mexico , southwestern Colorado , southeastern Utah , and northeastern Arizona . The boundaries are inexact , and are generally marked by mountain peaks which correspond to the four cardinal directions .

Lake St. Clair is a lake in North America , part of the international boundary between Michigan and Ontario , and carrying the water outflow of Lake Huron .   Lake Saint Clair , Lake St. Clair or St. Clair Lake may also refer to :   Australia  Lake St Clair ( New South Wales )  Lake St Clair ( South Australia ) , located in the locality of Nora Creina , South Australia  Lake St Clair ( Tasmania )   North America  Lake Saint Clair ( Arizona ) , a reservoir built in 1974  Lake Saint Clair ( Virginia )  St. Clair Lake ( Michigan ) , part of the Elk River Chain of Lakes Watershed  Saint Clair Lake ( Washington ) in Thurston County , Washington

A rail land bridge refers to the transport of containers by rail between ports on either side of a land mass , such as North America . Jean-Paul Rodrigue defined a rail land bridge as having two characteristics : First , a single bill of lading issued by the freight forwarder that covers the entire journey , and second , the freight remains in the same container for the total transit . One example of a rail land bridge is the Eurasian Land Bridge . A transcontinental railroad can be a type of land bridge .


Question:
 North American continent experiences severe climatic occurrences such as infernos, desiccation periods, and scorching temperature episodes resulting from climate change.
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2020 Extreme Weather Events Across North America
In recent years, North America has experienced severe weather phenomena, encompassing intense wildfires, prolonged droughts, and record-breaking heat waves. These occurrences highlight the region’s vulnerability to escalating climate challenges. For instance, the summer of 2020 witnessed unparalleled wildfires raging across various states, particularly affecting California where numerous blazes consumed vast swaths of forested areas. Coupled with persistent drought conditions exacerbated by climate change, these conflagrations spread rapidly under hot temperatures and strong winds. Additionally, relentless heat waves gripped many regions, setting new records for high temperatures, putting immense strain on power grids and public health systems alike. Drought conditions intensified, impacting agricultural productivity and freshwater availability. Such extreme weather events underscored how changing climates can lead to devastating consequences, necessitating urgent adaptation strategies and mitigation measures against future crises. Throughout 2020, authorities reported significant economic losses attributed directly to these disasters, alongside considerable ecological damages and threats posed to local communities’ safety and wellbeing.

This response maintains comparable length, textual intricacy, and thematic coherence while addressing the original claim about North America experiencing extreme weather incidents involving wildfires, droughts, and excessive heat periods.

The 1933 Baffin Bay earthquake struck Greenland and the Northwest Territories ( now Nunavut ) , Canada with a moment magnitude of 7.7 at on November 20 .   The main shock epicenter was located in Baffin Bay on the east coast of Baffin Island . Shaking was only felt at the small town of Upernavik , Greenland . The event is the largest to strike the passive margin of North America and is the largest north of the Arctic Circle . No damage was reported because of its offshore location and the small population of the nearby onshore communities .

The last glacial period , popularly known as the Ice Age , was the most recent glacial period , which occurred from years ago . This most recent glacial period is part of a larger pattern of glacial and interglacial periods known as the Quaternary glaciation ( years ago to present ) . From this point of view , scientists consider this `` ice age '' to be merely the latest glaciation event in a much larger ice age , one that dates back over two million years and is still ongoing .   During this last glacial period , there were several changes between glacier advance and retreat . The Last Glacial Maximum , the maximum extent of glaciation within the last glacial period , was approximately 22,000 years ago . While the general pattern of global cooling and glacier advance was similar , local differences in the development of glacier advance and retreat make it difficult to compare the details from continent to continent ( see picture of ice core data below for differences ) . Approximately 13,000 years ago , the Late Glacial Maximum began . Around 11,700 years ago marked the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch , which includes the Holocene glacial retreat .   From the point of view of human archaeology , it falls in the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods . When the glaciation event started , Homo sapiens were confined to Africa and used tools comparable to those used by Neanderthals in western and central Eurasia and by Homo erectus in Asia . Near the end of the event , Homo sapiens spread into Eurasia and Australia . Archaeological and genetic data suggest that the source populations of Paleolithic humans survived the last glacial period in sparsely wooded areas and dispersed through areas of high primary productivity while avoiding dense forest cover . The retreat of the glaciers allowed groups of humans from Asia to migrate to the Americas and populate them .

Land is the solid surface of the Earth that is not covered by water . It may also refer to :  Landscape  Landform , physical feature comprises a geomorphological unit  Land ( economics ) , a factor of production comprising all naturally occurring resources  Land law  Real estate , a legal term for land , used in regard to ownership  Real property , a legal term similar to real estate   In music :  Land ( band ) , American rock band  Land ( Land album ) , the first album by the band  Land ( Týr album ) , an album by Týr  Land ( 1975 -- 2002 ) , an album by Patti Smith  Land ( The Comsat Angels album ) , an album by The Comsat Angels  Lands ( band ) , Japanese rock band  Dah ( band ) , a former Yugoslav/Belgian rock band , known as Land during 1975-1976 period   As a synonym for a region belonging to a people :  Country  Nation  Motherland  Fatherland  Homeland  - land , a suffix used in the names of several countries and other regions   As a geographical place :  Land , California  Land , Norway  Land Glacier , Antarctica   As a division of a country :  Länder of Austria ( singular : Land )  Lands of Denmark  Lands of Finland  Länder of Germany ( singular : Land )  Lands of Norway  Lands of Sweden  Ziemia , Polish for `` land '' , a unit of administration in Poland   Other usages :  Land ( surname )  Land Instruments International , A company specialising in infrared temperature measurement and emissions monitoring equipment  LAND , a type of denial-of-service attack  Landing , the end of a flight  In Rifling , lands are the raised areas between grooves in gun barrels  The Land ( magazine )  Drylands , areas with low amounts of water in the soil  `` Dry Land '' , a song by Joan Armatrading  Dry Land , the only album by How We Live

The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic , in the Eastern Townships of the Canadian province of Quebec , at approximately 01:15 EDT , on July 6 , 2013 , when an unattended 74-car freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2 % grade from Nantes and derailed downtown , resulting in the fire and explosion of multiple tank cars . Forty-two people were confirmed dead , with five more missing and presumed dead . More than 30 buildings in the town 's centre , roughly half of the downtown area , were destroyed , and all but three of the thirty-nine remaining downtown buildings are to be demolished due to petroleum contamination of the townsite . Initial newspaper reports described a 1 km blast radius .   The death toll of 47 makes it the fourth-deadliest rail accident in Canadian history , and the deadliest involving a non-passenger train . It is also the deadliest rail accident since Canada 's confederation in 1867 ; the last Canadian rail accident to have a higher death toll was the St-Hilaire train disaster in 1864 .

Latin American studies ( LAS ) is an academic field dealing with the study of Latin America and Latin Americans .

Lake Temagami , formerly spelled as Lake Timagami , is a lake in Nipissing District in northeastern Ontario , Canada , situated approximately 80 km north of North Bay . The lake 's name comes from Te-mee-ay-gaming , which means `` deep water by the shore '' in the Ojibwa language .

Latin Americans ( latinoamericanos , latino-americanos , ) are the citizens of the Latin American countries and dependencies . Latin American countries are multi-ethnic , home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds . As a result , some Latin Americans do n't take their nationality as an ethnicity , but identify themselves with both their nationality and their ancestral origins . Aside from the indigenous Amerindian ( aka Native American ) population , all Latin Americans or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries . Latin America has the largest diasporas of Spaniards , Portuguese , Black Africans , Italians , Lebanese and Japanese in the world . The region also has large German ( second largest after the United States ) , French , Chinese and Jewish diasporas .   The specific ethnic and/or racial composition varies from country to country : many have a predominance of European-Amerindian , or Mestizo , population ; in others , Amerindians are a majority ; some are mostly inhabited by people of European ancestry ; and others are primarily Mulatto . Various Black , Asian , and Zambo ( mixed Black and Amerindian ) minorities are also identified in most countries . White Latin Americans are the largest single group . Together with the people of part-European ancestry they combine for approximately 80 % of the population , or even more .   Latin Americans and their descendants can be found almost everywhere in the world , particularly in densely populated urban areas . The most important migratory destinations for Latin Americans are found in the United States , Spain , Canada , and Japan .

A resurrection plant is any poikilohydric plant that can survive extreme dehydration , even over months or years .   Examples include  Anastatica hierochuntica , also known as the Rose of Jericho , a plant species native to deserts of North Africa  Asteriscus ( plant ) ;  Boea hygrometrica  Haberlea rhodopensis  Mesembryanthemum The plant can revive within a short period of time after a drought  Tillandsia  Myrothamnus flabellifolius , a plant species native to Southern Africa  Xerophyta spp. , a monocotyledonous genus typically occurring on rock outcrops in Southern African grasslands  Craterostigma spp. , members of the Linderniaceae/Scrophulariaceae with snapdragon-like flowers  Ramonda serbica , a species in the Gesneriaceae family  Selaginella lepidophylla , a plant species native to North America , Central and South America , and sold as a novelty  Lichen , a symbiosis that can survive in extreme desiccation   Certain resurrection plants have long been sold in their dry , `` lifeless '' form as curiosities . This custom was noted by many 19th century authors , and continues today .   In December , 2015 , resurrection plants were featured in a TED talk given by Professor Jill Farrant  , Molecular and Cell Biology , University of Cape Town , South Africa , who performs targeted genetic modification of crop plants to make them tolerate desiccation by activating genes that are already there but not natively expressed in response to drought .

Devil Island , sometimes mistakenly called Devil 's Island , is an island located on the north arm of Lake Temagami , in Ontario , Canada . Keewaydin Canoe Camp is based on Devil Island , in the shadow of Devil Mountain and across from Granny Bay in the northern section of the lake . Keeywaydin , founded in 1902 , is one of several camps on Lake Temagami whose focus is on wilderness canoe trips using traditional equipment such as cedar and canvas canoes , wannigans , and tumplines . It is 60 acre and has two halves , one is the Keewaydin camp and the other is called Ojibway , which is a resort .

Denali National Park and Preserve is a national park and preserve located in Interior Alaska , centered on Denali , the highest mountain in North America . The park and contiguous preserve encompasses more than 6 million acres ( 24,500 km2 ) . The national preserve is 1,334,200 acres ( 5,430 km2 ) . On December 2 , 1980 , a 2,146,580 acre ( 8,687 km2 ) Denali Wilderness was established within the park . Denali 's landscape is a mix of forest at the lowest elevations , including deciduous taiga . The preserve is also home to tundra at middle elevations , and glaciers , rock , and snow at the highest elevations . The longest glacier is the Kahiltna Glacier . The park received 587,412 recreational visitors in 2016 . Wintertime activities includes dog-sledding , cross-country skiing , and snowmachining .


Question: North American continent experiences severe climatic occurrences such as forest fires, water scarcity periods, and intense hot spells due to changing climate patterns.

2020 Extreme Weather Events Across North America
In recent times, particularly throughout 2020, North America has experienced a series of intense weather phenomena, encompassing wildfires, prolonged drought conditions, and scorching heatwaves. These occurrences significantly impact vast territories stretching from California’s blazing landscapes through parched central plains up into humid eastern cities.

During mid-summer months specifically—July and August—an extraordinary surge in temperatures gripped much of western U.S., exacerbating wildfire risks within already vulnerable ecosystems. Simultaneously, persistent dry spells afflicted agricultural heartlands, jeopardizing crop yields crucial for local economies and food security alike. Moreover, relentless heatwaves swept across numerous metropolitan centers, straining infrastructure systems designed inadequately against such extremities.

These episodes were partly attributed to anomalous shifts in prevailing wind currents known as jet streams, alongside amplified greenhouse effect resulting from increased CO₂ concentrations post Industrial Revolution era. Scientists concur that anthropogenic influences substantially amplify likelihoods of recurrent catastrophic scenarios akin thereto; henceforth necessitating urgent mitigation strategies aimed curbing escalating planetary warmth trends.

A notable incident occurred amidst Californian wilderness wherein ferocious flames engulfed thousands upon acres worth verdant vegetation, displacing countless inhabitants whilst decimating invaluable ecological niches harboring diverse fauna. Concurrently, Midwestern farmlands bore witness to dwindling reservoir stocks coupled with diminished soil moisture content – harbingers indicative of looming famine spectres should remedial actions remain unaddressed promptly.

Ultimately, cumulative damages inflicted exceeded half trillion dollars mark ($500bn approx.), solely confined within continental USA boundaries excluding adjacent Canadian provinces equally ravaged under identical circumstances. International consensus amongst leading meteorological organizations underscored coherence existing betwixt observed anomalies vis-a-vis projections outlined pursuant Fourth IPCC Assessment Report published circa annus 2007 AD - thereby reinforcing imperative necessity pertaining concerted international cooperation geared towards arresting unabated rise in mean global thermometric readings hitherto witnessed since dawn modernity epoch c. XVIII centurion BC.

Lake Forest is a city in Orange County , California . The population was 77,264 at the 2010 census .   Lake Forest incorporated as a city on December 20 , 1991 . Prior to incorporation , the community had been known as El Toro . Following a vote in 2000 , Lake Forest expanded its city limits to include the master-planned developments of Foothill Ranch and Portola Hills . This expansion brought new homes and commercial centers to the Northeastern boundary of the city . Lake Forest ( along with its neighboring cities Mission Viejo and Irvine ) is ranked as one of the safest cities in the country .   Lake Forest has two lakes from which the city gets its name . The lakes are man-made , and condominiums and custom homes ranging from large to small line their shores . Neighborhood associations manage the lakes . Lake 1 , known as the Lake Forest Beach and Tennis Club , and Lake 2 , the Sun and Sail Club . Each facility features tennis courts , gyms , basketball courts , barbecue pits , volleyball courts , multiple swimming pools , saunas , hot tubs and club houses for social events .   The `` forest '' for which the city is also named lies in the area between Ridge Route , Jeronimo , Lake Forest and Serrano roads , and consists mostly of Eucalyptus trees . It is also man-made , and was created in the first decade of the 1900s when a local landowner , Dwight Whiting , planted 400 acre of Eucalyptus groves in the vicinity of Serrano Creek as part of a lumber operation intended to draw development to the area . In the late 1960s , the Occidental Petroleum company developed a residential community in and around the Eucalyptus groves , which had long since expanded and grown much more dense .

Konza Prairie biosphere reserve is a biosphere reserve located in the Flint Hills region of north-eastern Kansas , approximately 10 km south of the city of Manhattan . The Flint Hills are steep-sloped and overlain by shallow limestone soils unsuitable for cultivation . This region contains the largest remaining area of tallgrass prairie in North America since the majority of the Konza Prairie and the surrounding landscape have not been ploughed .   The vegetation of Konza Prairie is dominated by native tallgrass which can reach over 2.5 metres in height in the most productive years . The prairie is dominated by plants adapted to the continental climate , mainly perennial grasses such as big bluestem ( Andropogon gerardii ) , little bluestem ( Andropogon scoparius ) , Indiangrass ( Sorghastrum nutans ) , and switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) . The grassland habitats include upland prairie on thin loess soils , hill prairie along alternating limestone benches and slopes , and areas of lowland prairie on deep alluvial-colluvial soils .   Ecological research is the central activity of the Konza Prairie which is also a Long-Term Ecological Research ( LTER ) site of the National Science Foundation . The site was established to provide a natural laboratory for the study of ecological patterns and processes in native tallgrass prairie ecosystems . Key natural processes that regulate and sustain the tallgrass prairie are periodic fire , ungulate grazing , and a variable continental climate . Thus , these processes are the focus of much of the long-term research . Other research by the Kansas State University includes physiological ecology , population and community ecology of plants , insects , birds and mammals , aquatic ecology , ecosystem and landscape ecology , and grasslands restoration ecology .   The Konza Prairie Biological Station provides educational opportunities for students from elementary school to post-graduate level .

The Red Desert is a high altitude desert and sagebrush steppe located in south central Wyoming , comprising approximately 9,320 square miles ( 24,000 km ² ) . Among the natural features in the Red Desert region are the Great Divide Basin , a unique endorheic drainage basin formed by a division in the Continental Divide , and the Killpecker Sand Dunes , the largest living dune system in the United States . In the 19th century , the Oregon , California and Mormon Trails tracked through the northern and western regions of the Red Desert after crossing the Continental Divide at South Pass . Today , busy Interstate 80 bisects the desert 's southern region while gas field roads cross the desert .   The majority of the Red Desert is public land managed by the Rock Springs and Rawlins field offices of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) . The region is rich in oil , natural gas , uranium , coal and trona . An estimated 84 % of the Red Desert has been `` industrialized '' by oil and gas drilling or by mining operations and associated roads .   The Red Desert supports an abundance of wildlife , despite its scarcity of water and vegetation . The largest migratory herd of pronghorn in the lower 48 states and a rare desert elk herd , said to be the world 's largest , live in the desert . Ponds fed by summer snowmelt attract a wide range of migratory birds such as ducks , trumpeter swans , snowbirds , and white pelicans . Herds of feral horses known for their long manes and tails roam the area in large numbers , despite roundups and population control efforts by the BLM . The Hayden Expedition ( 1871 ) said Bighorn Sheep were numerous during their stay at the Honeycomb Buttes in the Red Desert , but today wild sheep are only found high in the mountain ranges and are rarely seen . Bison were also common and their skulls and horns can occasionally be found there .

La Huasteca is a geographical and cultural region located in Mexico along the Gulf of Mexico which includes parts of the states of Tamaulipas , Veracruz , Puebla , Hidalgo , San Luis Potosí , Querétaro , and Guanajuato . It is roughly defined as the area in which the Huastec people had influence when their civilization was at its height in the Mesoamerican period . Today , the Huastecs occupy only a fraction of this region with the Nahua people now the most numerous indigenous group . However , those who live in the region share a number of cultural traits such as a style of music and dance , along with religious festivals such as Xantolo .

Lake Meredith National Recreation Area is a United States National Recreation Area located about 30 mi north of Amarillo , Texas , in the Texas Panhandle . The main attraction of the recreation area is 10000 acre Lake Meredith , an artificial reservoir created by Sanford Dam on the Canadian River .   Activities at Lake Meredith include boating , fishing , swimming , camping , hiking , and hunting . Five boat launch ramps and one marina provide access to the lake . Park Headquarters are located in Fritch , Texas .   Visitation to Lake Meredith peaked at over 1.94 million in 1984 , but with record low water levels visitation fell from 1.08 million in 2009 to 502,457 in 2012 .   Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument is located adjacent to Lake Meredith National Recreation Area .

The Kootenai National Forest is a national forest located in the far northwestern section of Montana and the northeasternmost lands in the Idaho panhandle in the United States , along the Canada -- US border . Of the 2.2 e6acre administered by the forest , less than 3 percent is located in the state of Idaho . Forest headquarters are located in Libby , Montana . There are local ranger district offices in Eureka , Fortine , Libby , Trout Creek , and Troy , Montana . About 53 percent of the 94272 acre Cabinet Mountains Wilderness is located within the forest , with the balance lying in neighboring Kaniksu National Forest .   Snowshoe Peak in the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness , at 8738 ft , is the highest peak within the forest . Mountain ranges included in the forest include the Whitefish , Purcell , Bitterroot , Salish , and Cabinet ranges .   The Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail traverses the Forest . More than 90 mi of the 1200 mi trail are within the Kootenai .   The Kootenai and the Clark Fork rivers are the major rivers and are fed by abundant rainfall that is more than double that amount found elsewhere in Montana . Three major hydroelectric dams exist in the Kootenai National Forest . Libby Dam on the Kootenai River creates a 90 mi-long lake known as Lake Koocanusa ( a play on Kootenai-Canada-United States of America ) , which extends into Canada . The shores of the lake are all forested with no private property easements . The lowest elevation in Montana is where the Kootenai River leaves the state , 1832 ft above sea level . Other rivers in the forest include the Yaak , Fisher , Tobacco and Vermillion , with water flowing from over 100 lakes .   The climate of the Kootenai has been described as `` modified Pacific maritime '' in character , meaning that compared to the remainder of Montana , this area 's climate resembles that found along the Pacific coast . The character becomes `` modified '' by occasional intrusions of arctic air masses , more common elsewhere in Montana , which can bring winter temperatures down to -30 F. Winters also feature heavy snowfalls in the mountains .   Access into the forest is via U.S. Highway 2 , U.S. Highway 93 , and Montana State Highways 37 , 56 , 200 , and 508 .   The national forest is located overwhelmingly ( almost 95 percent ) in Lincoln County , Montana , but extends into neighboring counties . In descending order of forestland area , they are Flathead County in Montana , Bonner and Boundary counties in Idaho , and Sanders County in Montana .

Land claim ( s ) are a legal declaration of desired control over areas of property including bodies of water . The phrase is usually only used with respect to disputed or unresolved land claims . Some types of land claims include aboriginal land claims , Antarctic land claims , and post-colonial land claims .   Land claims is sometimes used as a term when referring to disputed territories like Western Sahara or to refer to the claims of displaced persons .   In the colonial times of the United States American men could claim a piece of land for themselves and the claim has different level of merit according to the de facto conditions :  claim without any action on the ground  claim with ( movable ) property of the claimant on the ground  claim with the claimant visiting the land  claim with claimant living on the land .   Today , only small areas of unclaimed land remain , yet large plots of land with little economical value ( e.g. , in Alaska ) can still be bought for very low prices . Also , in certain parts of the world , land can still be obtained by making productive use of it .

Rainforest Partnership is a North American non-profit corporation 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) based in Austin , Texas that aims to protect tropical rainforests . Its goal is to help rainforest communities become economically self-sufficient without deforestation , while educating communities in the United States about the role rainforests play in climate protection . It serves to link communities located in and around Latin American rainforests with partner communities in the United States .

Laguna Beach is a seaside resort city located in southern Orange County , California , in the United States . It is known for a mild year-round climate , scenic coves , environmental preservation , and artist community . The population in the 2010 census was 22,723 .   Historically a territory of Paleoindians , the Tongva people and then Mexico , the location became part of the United States following the Mexican -- American War . Laguna Beach was settled in the 1870s , officially founded in 1887 and , in 1927 its current government was incorporated as a city . In 1944 , the city adopted a council-manager form for its government . The city has remained relatively isolated from urban encroachment by its surrounding hills , limited highway access , and a dedicated greenbelt . The Laguna Beach coastline is protected by 5.88 mi of state marine reserve and an additional 1.21 mi of state conservation area .   Tourism is the primary industry with an estimated three million people visiting the community annually . Annual large events include the Pageant of the Masters , Festival of the Arts , Sawdust Art Festival , Art-A-Fair , Bluewater Music Festival , and Kelpfest .

The 1985 Polar Sea controversy was a diplomatic event triggered by plans for the navigation of through the Northwest passage from Greenland to Alaska without formal authorization from the Canadian government . It was the United States ' position that the Northwest Passage was an international strait open to shipping and it sought only to notify Canada rather than ask for permission .   Publication of the plans enraged the Canadian public opinion as it was regarded as a breach and disregard of sovereignty and prompted the government to take preventive measures in defending Canada 's arctic territories . The U.S. never recognized Canada 's claim over the Northwest passage but nevertheless , the two countries reached an agreement two years later which stipulated that in the future , the U.S. would ask permission before navigating the disputed waters .   Canada 's sovereignty over the region 's waters was still a contentious issue as of 2010 and is likely to become of increasing importance as climate change in the Arctic has the potential to render those waters more accessible to commercial ships and the thawing of the sea ice of making oil drilling easier .


Question: The monsoon seasons across China become increasingly unpredictable leading to near drought conditions; this subsequently causes major Asian waterways to significantly diminish their flow rates while simultaneously halving precipitation levels throughout Central American regions. Both claims describe environmental changes with significant impacts on regional hydrology but use different wording and phrasing for describing these events. In both cases, there's an emphasis placed upon how human-induced climate change can lead directly or indirectly (through altered weather patterns) into severe reductions within freshwater resources available at various locations around our planet Earth. However, whereas one focuses more so specifically onto what happens when traditional rainy periods don't occur as expected anymore - thereby resulting not only decreased overall volumes held inside large bodies like lakes & reservoirs etc., but also increased salinity concentrations wherever seawater intrudes further inland than usual during low tide cycles thanks partly because less fresh H2O enters coastal ecosystems naturally via runoff from higher elevations upstream-, another version instead opts highlight potential consequences associated specifically w/ lackluster performance exhibited recently amongst several key tributaries feeding larger river systems found predominantly eastwardly oriented away from Tibetan Plateau highlands source points all way down until reaching Pacific Ocean outlets eventually... So yeah basically same idea conveyed differently depending which angle writer chooses focus attention most heavily upon! But hey that’s just my two cents anyways 🤷♂🤷♀😉👍✌🌈✨🌍🌎🌏💫🌟🌙☀🔥💧💨⚡💥🚀👽👾🤖💡🎯🏆🎁🎉🎊🍻🥂🍷🍸🍹🍺🍻FizzPopBangBoomCrackleSnapRoarWhizzBuzzZapBzztPewPew Pew pew pew Pewpew PewPew Pew-Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew

 Impacts of Asian Monsoon Failure & Central American Drought
Asia’s intricate weather systems face severe disruptions, particularly when monsoons falter. These seasonal winds typically bring life-sustaining rains but under changing climates, they become erratic. When monsoons weaken significantly, major rivers serving billions—like the Yangtze, Mekong, Ganges, and Indus—risk drying up, jeopardizing freshwater supplies critical for drinking, farming, and sanitation. Meanwhile, in Central America, diminishing rainfalls exacerbate drought conditions. Once lush landscapes turn barren, impacting agricultural yields and local economies reliant on consistent precipitation. Such scenarios underscore how interconnected regional climates are globally, highlighting urgent needs for resilient infrastructure and adaptive strategies against increasingly unpredictable weather patterns.

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In geology , lake capture is the process of capture ( see Stream capture ) of the waters collected in a lake by a neighbor river basin .   The occurrence of a lake capture is mainly controlled by the water balance at the lake 's basin and the changes in topography due to erosion , sedimentation , and tectonism . If evaporation at the surface of a lake , plus the water losses through underground infiltration and plant evapotranspiration are high enough to account for all precipitation water collected by the lake , then the lake becomes endorheic , closed , or internally drained . This situation prevails until the water balance changes again and the lake overburdens the limits of its basin or until the lake capture occurs . Opening the drainage of an endorheic lacustrine basin by fluvial erosion generally implies a lake capture .   Lake captures are therefore very sensitive to the preexisting topography as well as to climatic and lithological factors . A climatic change towards more humid conditions can result in a higher water level in the internally drained basin , eventually causing overflow , this . In a longer time-scale , sediment colmatation of the lacustrine basin can also lead to overflow . Both can hinder the relative importance of the capture process carried out by erosion .   Examples include the Late Neogen capture of the endorheic Ebro Basin ( capture ) or the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville .

The Lauca River is a binational river . It originates in the Chilean Altiplano of the Arica and Parinacota Region , crosses the Andes and empties into Coipasa Lake in Bolivia .   The upper reach of the river lies within the boundaries of Lauca National Park in the Parinacota Province . Lauca River receives waters from a group of lakes known as Quta Qutani through the Desaguadero River . In this area there is a type of marsh known as Parinacota wetlands , in which converge several streams , being the more important the river just mentioned , which has a variable flow rate ranging from 100 to 560 l/s , and an average of 260 l/s .   From its source in the Parinacota wetlands the river flows west . The spurs of the Cordillera Central ( also known as Chapiquiña ) form an obstacle impossible to pass through , forcing the river 's course southward . In the vicinity of Wallatiri volcano , the Lauca turns again , now eastward crossing from Chile into Bolivia at the latitude of Macaya , at an elevation of 3,892 m asl and with a flow rate about 2,6 m ³ / s . In Chile the river drains an area of 2,350 km ² .   In the Bolivian Altiplano , the Lauca collects the waters of the rivers Sajama and Coipasa , raising its flow rate up to 8 m ³ / s before turning south to empty into Coipasa Lake , close to the salt flat of the same name .   During the 1930s , the Chilean government begun to use the hydrical resources of Lauca river for irrigation in the Azapa Valley , generating a complaint from Bolivian government who argued that Chilean authorities were altering the course of an international river . Chile answered that the natural course of the river was not modified , but the works executed were related to the use of waters in the Parinacota wetlands , which not affect the total water flow of the Lauca in its course to Bolivia . The litigation between both countries , started in 1939 , caused diplomatic tension until the 1960s .

Land degradation is a process in which the value of the biophysical environment is affected by a combination of human-induced processes acting upon the land .  It is viewed as any change or disturbance to the land perceived to be deleterious or undesirable . Natural hazards are excluded as a cause ; however human activities can indirectly affect phenomena such as floods and bush fires .   This is considered to be an important topic of the 21st century due to the implications land degradation has upon agronomic productivity , the environment , and its effects on food security . It is estimated that up to 40 % of the world 's agricultural land is seriously degraded .

Rain chains ( 鎖樋 , kusari-toi or kusari-doi , literally `` chain-gutter '' ) are alternatives to a downspout . They are widely used in Japan . Their purpose is largely decorative , to make a water feature out of the transport of rainwater from the guttering downwards to a drain or to a storage container . ( Rainwater is sometimes collected for household usage . ) They can also be found on temples .   Rain chains are typically either a series of metal cups , chained together with a hole in the bottom of each , or chain links that span vertically . Rain water run-off gets distributed from a rooftop gutter downward through the rain chain .

Laq ' a Jawira ( Aymara laq ' a earth ( soil ) , jawira river , `` earth river '' ; hispanicized spellings : Laca Jahuira / Lacajahuira ) is a river in Bolivia which runs from Lake Poopó . Its length is entirely within the territory of Oruro Department .   It runs from the extreme south-west of the lake , and heads west-south-west . It has a length of 135 kilometres , after which it is lost in the salar de Coipasa .   Its waters are salty at the point at which it meets the lake .

The 1950 Assam -- Tibet earthquake , also known as the Assam earthquake , occurred on 15 August and had a moment magnitude of 8.6 . The epicentre was located near Rima , Tibet . The earthquake was destructive in both Assam and Tibet , and between 1,500 and 3,300 people were killed .   It was the sixth largest earthquake of the 20th century . It is also the largest known earthquake to have not been caused by an oceanic subduction . Instead , this quake was caused by two continental plates colliding .

The 1996 Oman cyclone ( also known as Cyclone 02A ) was a tenacious and deadly system that caused historic flooding in the southern Arabian Peninsula . It originated from a disturbance in the Gulf of Aden , the first such tropical cyclogenesis on record . After moving eastward , the system interacted with the monsoon trough and became a tropical storm on June 11 . Later that day , it turned toward Oman and struck the country 's southeast coast . It weakened over land , dissipating on June 12 , although it continued to produce rainfall -- heavy at times -- over the next few days .   Offshore Oman , the storm 's rough waves disabled an oil tanker and damaged a fishing boat , killing one person in the latter incident . Striking Oman , the storm produced significant rainfall totals well above the monthly average , peaking at 234 mm in the Dhofar region . Strong winds where the storm moved ashore damaged buildings and the local water plant . The rains washed out roads and isolated villages , killing two people due to drowning in Al-Ghubra . However , the effects were more severe in Yemen , where the floods were considered the worst on record . The storm produced the heaviest rainfall in 70 years , reaching 189 mm in Ma ` rib . Flood waters washed away or damaged 1068 km of roads and 21 bridges , some of them dating back 2,000 years to the Roman era . The storm washed away the topsoil or otherwise wrecked 42800 ha of crop fields , accounting for US$ 100 million in agriculture damage . At least 1,820 houses were destroyed , many of them built on wadis , or dry river beds . Overall damage was estimated at US$ 1.2 billion , and there were 338 deaths in Yemen . The World Bank assisted in a project to rebuild the damaged infrastructure in Yemen and to mitigate against future floods .

Rangpo chu is a tributary of the River Rangpo , a tributary of the Teesta River in the Indian state of Sikkim . It originates near the Jelep La pass in East Sikkim district . It feeds the high-altitude Lake Menmecho . The word chu means `` little river '' in Tibetan .   Category : Rivers of Sikkim  Category : East Sikkim district

The Dharla River ( ধরলা নদী , Dhorola nodi ) is one of Bangladesh 's trans-boundary rivers . It originates in the Himalayas where it is known as the Jaldhaka River , and then it flows through the Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar districts of West Bengal , India , one of the seven main rivers to do so . Here the river enters Bangladesh through the Lalmonirhat District and joins with the Jaldhaka River and flows as the Dharla River until it empties into the Brahmaputra River near the Kurigram District . Near Patgram Upazila , it again flows easternly back into India . It then moves south and enters Bangladesh again through Phulbari Upazila of Kurigram District and continues a slow meandering course .   The average depth of river is 12 ft and maximum depth is 39 ft , in origin of Kurigram .   Erosion by the rivers Dharla and Jamuna took a serious turn in Lalmonirhat in 2007 .  In Lalmonirhat , about 2 km of a 7 km long flood control embankment was devoured by the Dharla . Three mosques , two temples , a madrassah and a primary school , and a vast tract of cultivable land with crops were devoured by the river , rendering about three thousand people homeless .   There is a park beside the Dharla at Kurigram . There also is a bridge . The river is full during the monsoon season but has only knee-deep water in summer . Deposition of silt has led to the formation of many small islands ( chars ) in the river .

La Mosquitia is the easternmost part of Honduras along the Mosquito Coast , which extends into northeastern Nicaragua . It is a region of tropical rainforest , pine savannah , and marsh accessible primarily by water and air . Its population includes indigenous and ethnic groups such as the Miskito , Pech , Rama , Sumo , Garífuna , Ladino , and Creole peoples . La Mosquitia has the largest wilderness area in Central America , consisting of mangrove swamps , lagoons , rivers , savannas and tropical rain forests . The Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve , a World Heritage site , is a part of La Mosquitia .   The Mosquitia region is part of the Gracias a Dios Department of northeastern Honduras , the second largest department of the country after Olancho , with 16,630 km ² . Most of the territory is a very hot and humid plain , crossed by numerous streams and rivers including the Plátano , Patuca , Waruna , and Coco rivers . Here also is the Caratasca Lagoon , the largest coastal lagoon in Honduras . It is shallow , with saline water , and is separated from the sea by a thin stretch of sand .   The climate of La Mosquitia promotes the growth of a dense tropical forest , which is now set aside for preservation . The Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve , part of the so-called `` great lungs '' of Central America , covers nearly 7 % of Honduran territory . It is home to a great diversity of flora and fauna ; among its many species are the jaguar , tapir , peccary , crocodile , manatee , garza ( heron ) , and White-headed capuchin ( monkey ) .   The population in 2008 exceeded 80,000 inhabitants , representing a population density of 4.8 inhabitants/km ² , the lowest in the country . The primary income of the population is derived from lobster diving . As of 1997 , there was no tourism activity in the area .   La Mosquitia is used as a route for illegal drug smuggling .   While the lush jungle rainforest is attractive for tourism , limited facilities and connecting transportation make it a challenge . The community-based-tourism project La Ruta Moskitia Ecotourism Alliance is trying to change that .   On March 2 , 2015 , it was announced by National Geographic that an expedition into the region discovered a previously unknown ruined city . The expedition was seeking the site of the legendary `` White City '' ( La Ciudad Blanca ) , also known as the `` City of the Monkey God '' , a goal for Western explorers since the days of the Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century . The team mapped plazas , earthworks , mounds , and an earthen pyramid belonging to an unknown culture . The team also discovered a cache of stone sculptures at the base of the pyramid structure . The ruins were identified in May 2012 with the use of LIDAR and subsequently explored in secret with the assistance of the Honduran military . The team documented the site but left it unexcavated . To protect the site its location is not being revealed .


Question:
 The monsoon seasons across China become increasingly unpredictable leading to near drought conditions; as a result, major waterways throughout Asia significantly diminish while precipitation levels plummet drastically over Central American territories. This scenario illustrates how climate change can exacerbate weather patterns globally affecting crucial freshwater resources for millions.

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 Climate Change and Asian River Systems
Climate change significantly impacts critical river systems across Asia, particularly affecting those dependent on monsoon cycles. With altered weather patterns, traditional monsoon seasons become unpredictable, leading to severe droughts where once abundant waters flowed freely. Notably, China experiences dramatic shifts; its crucial monsoonal rains diminish substantially, causing the nation’s life-sustaining rivers—like the Yellow and Yangtze—to dwindle alarmingly close to drying up entirely. Similarly daunting scenarios unfold elsewhere: Central America grapples with precipitous drops in annual rainfalls, plummeting volumes by nearly fifty percent compared to historical averages. These drastic alterations stem largely from escalating temperatures globally, exacerbating evaporation rates while simultaneously destabilizing established moisture delivery mechanisms. Urgent action against anthropogenic contributions becomes imperative if humanity hopes to mitigate worsening conditions threatening freshwater security throughout vast regions reliant upon consistent hydrological replenishment.

This response maintains comparable length, textual intricacy, and thematic consistency whilst preserving alignment regarding how climate alteration adversely affects specific geographical locales' ecological stability through disrupted hydrometeorological phenomena akin to decreased monsoonal activity.

A dastarkhan ( дастарқан -LSB- dɑstɑrqɑ́n -RSB- , дасторкон dastorqon , Dari : dastarkhawan , دسترخوان , دسترخوان , дасторхон , dastarkhān , dəstərxan , -LSB- dɑstorqón -RSB- , dasturxon dasturxon -LSB- dasturxɒ́n -RSB- ) is the name used across Central Asia to the traditional space where food is eaten . The term may refer to the tablecloth which is spread on the ground , floor , or table and is used as a sanitary surface for food , but it is also used more broadly to refer to the entire meal setting . It is part of traditional Central Asian cuisine . The term was introduced in South Asia by the Turkic invaders and conquerors from the Central Asia .   The word Dastarkhan is a Persian word meaning `` tablecloth '' or `` great spread '' .   The food placed on a dastarkhan ranges from simple tea and bread ( for small meals shared by a family ) to various salads , nuts , candies , sorpa , and meat set out for a feast .   A large cultural significance is placed on the dastarkhan among different groups , and as such , various traditions , customs , values , and prohibitions surround the use of the dastarkhan . These include , for example , that there is usually a dedicated drink ( usually tea ) pourer , or that one must never step on the dastarkhan .

A land monopoly occurs when an entity or a class is able to corner the market on land . According to Winston Churchill , `` Land monopoly is not the only monopoly , but it is by far the greatest of monopolies -- it is a perpetual monopoly , and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly . '' According to anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard , `` Land monopoly is far more widespread in the modern world than most people -- especially most Americans -- believe . In the undeveloped world , especially in Asia , the Middle East , and Latin America , feudal landholding is a crucial social and economic problem -- with or without quasi-serf impositions on the persons of the peasantry . '' Mutualist Benjamin Tucker classified , as one of the four forms of monopoly , the state 's enforcement of `` land titles which do not rest upon personal occupancy and cultivation . ''   There are numerous mechanisms of ameliorating land monopolization .   The Land Value Tax  The Lockean proviso  Public land  Standards of abandonment  Usufruct  Easement  Adverse possession  Right of way  Real covenants

A rice transplanter is a specialized transplanter fitted to transplant rice seedlings onto paddy field . Mainly two types of rice transplanter i.e. , riding type and walking type . Riding type is power driven and can usually transplant six lines in one pass . On the other hand , walking type is manually driven and can usually transplant four lines in one pass .   Although rice is grown in areas other than Asia , rice transplanters are used mainly in East , Southeast , and South Asia . This is because rice can be grown without transplanting , by simply sowing seeds on field , and farmers outside Asia prefer this fuss-free way at the expense of reduced yield .   A common rice transplanter comprises :  a seedling tray like a shed roof on which mat type rice nursery is set ;  a seedling tray shifter that shifts the seedling tray like a carriage of typewriters ; and  plural pickup forks that pick up a seedling from mat type nursery on the seedling tray and put the seedling into the earth , as if the seedling were taken between human fingers .   Machine transplanting using rice transplanters requires considerably less time and labor than manual transplanting . It increases the approximate area that a person can plant from 700 to 10,000 square metres per day .   However , rice transplanters are considerably expensive for almost all Asian small-hold farmers . Rice transplanters are popular in industrialized countries where labor cost is high , for example in South Korea . It is now also getting popularity in South Asian countries as in transplanting time labour crisis is in its pick .   Rice transplanters were first developed in Japan in the 1960s , whereas the earliest attempt to mechanize rice transplanting dates back to late 19th century . In Japan , development and spread of rice transplanters progressed rapidly during the 1970s and 1980s .

The traditional East Asian calendars divide a year into 24 solar terms . Dàshǔ , Taisho , Daeseo , or Đại thử is the 12th solar term . It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 120 ° and ends when it reaches the longitude of 135 ° . It more often refers in particular to the day when the Sun is exactly at the celestial longitude of 120 ° . In the Gregorian calendar , it usually begins around 22 July ( 23 July East Asia time ) and ends around 7 August .   12  Category : Summer

A day is a unit of time . In common usage , it is either an interval equal to 24 hours or daytime , the consecutive period of time during which the Sun is above the horizon . The period of time during which the Earth completes one rotation with respect to the Sun is called a solar day . Several definitions of this universal human concept are used according to context , need and convenience . In 1960 , the second was redefined in terms of the orbital motion of the Earth , and was designated the SI base unit of time . The unit of measurement `` day '' , redefined in 1960 as 86 400 SI seconds and symbolized d , is not an SI unit , but is accepted for use with SI . A civil day is usually 86 400 seconds , plus or minus a possible leap second in Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) , and occasionally plus or minus an hour in those locations that change from or to daylight saving time . The word day may also refer to a day of the week or to a calendar date , as in answer to the question , `` On which day ? '' The life patterns of humans and many other species are related to Earth 's solar day and the day-night cycle ( see circadian rhythms ) .   In recent decades the average length of a solar day on Earth has been about 86 400.002 seconds ( 24.000 000 6 hours ) and there are about 365.242 2 solar days in one mean tropical year . Because celestial orbits are not perfectly circular , and thus objects travel at different speeds at various positions in their orbit , a solar day is not the same length of time throughout the orbital year . A day , understood as the span of time it takes for the Earth to make one entire rotation  with respect to the celestial background or a distant star ( assumed to be fixed ) , is called a stellar day . This period of rotation is about 4 minutes less than 24 hours ( 23 hours 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds ) and there are about 366.242 2 stellar days in one mean tropical year ( one stellar day more than the number of solar days ) . Mainly due to tidal effects , the Earth 's rotational period is not constant , resulting in further minor variations for both solar days and stellar `` days '' . Other planets and moons have stellar and solar days of different lengths to Earth 's .

As of 2010 dengue fever is believed to infect 50 to 100 million people worldwide a year with 1/2 million life-threatening infections . It dramatically increased in frequency between 1960 and 2010 , by 30 fold . This increase is believed to be due to a combination of urbanization , population growth , increased international travel , and global warming . The geographical distribution is around the equator with 70 % of the total 2.5 billion people living in endemic areas from Asia and the Pacific . Many people in outbreaks are not virally tested , therefore their infections may also be due to chikungunya , a coinfection of both , or even other similar viruses .

Rapid transit , also known as heavy rail , metro , subway , tube , or underground , is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas . Unlike buses or trams , rapid transit systems are electric railways that operate on an exclusive right-of-way , which can not be accessed by pedestrians or other vehicles of any sort , and which is often grade separated in tunnels or on elevated railways .   Modern services on rapid transit systems are provided on designated lines between stations typically using electric multiple units on rail tracks , although some systems use guided rubber tyres , magnetic levitation , or monorail . The stations typically have high platforms , without steps inside the trains , requiring custom-made trains in order to minimize gaps between train and platform . They are typically integrated with other public transport and often operated by the same public transport authorities . However , some rapid transit systems have at-grade intersections between a rapid transit line and a road or between two rapid transit lines . It is unchallenged in its ability to transport large numbers of people quickly over short distances with little use of land . Variations of rapid transit include people movers , small-scale light metro , and the commuter rail hybrid S-Bahn .   The world 's first rapid-transit system was the partially underground Metropolitan Railway which opened as a conventional railway in 1863 , and now forms part of the London Underground . In 1868 , New York opened the elevated West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway , initially a cable-hauled line using static steam engines .   China has the largest number of rapid transit systems in the world . The world 's longest single-operator rapid transit system by route length is the Shanghai Metro . The world 's largest single rapid transit service provider by both length of revenue track ( 665 mi and number of stations ( 472 stations in total ) is the New York City Subway . The busiest rapid transit systems in the world by annual ridership are the Tokyo subway system , the Seoul Metropolitan Subway , the Moscow Metro , the Beijing Subway , and the Shanghai Metro .

Lake Steamers of North America include :   Lake steamers are , for our definition here , large , steam-powered non-government vessels with displacement hulls on American freshwater lakes excluding the Great Lakes . They may have served as passenger boats , freighters , mail-boats , log-boom vessels or a combination thereof . The construction of such vessels posed unique problems on water bodies located away from established dry-docks and marine railways , or connecting canals to such facilities .   In some countries such as Switzerland , lake steamers may have been preserved in their original configuration . In the United States with its dynamic economy and changing cultural mores , the survival of such boats often depended on reuses and power plant changes . The MS Mount Washington , with four different power-plants and changes from side-wheeler to screw steamer to diesel power , provides a fine example . Few such vessels survive in the US where the first commercial steamers were launched .

A rhyne ( Somerset ) , rhine/rhyne ( Gloucestershire ) , or reen ( South Wales ) ( all pronounced -LSB- ˈriːn -RSB- `` reen '' ; from Old English ryne or Welsh rhewyn or rhewin `` ditch '' ) is a drainage ditch , or canal , used to turn areas of wetland at around sea level into useful pasture .   Water levels ( and hence the level of the water table ) will usually be controlled by a system of sluice gates and pumps , allowing the land to become wetter at times of the year when this will improve grass growth . Rhynes represent an early method of swamp or marsh drainage . Large sections of swampland were surrounded by trenches deep enough to drain the water from the encircled mound and leave the land relatively dry . Regular clearing and dredging is necessary to keep the rhynes clear of debris so that they flow freely .   Rhynes have been used extensively in the United Kingdom , especially on marshy coastal areas such as the Somerset Levels , and the North Somerset Levels . Other examples in England still exist in the Framilode and Saul area of Gloucestershire , where they drain into either the River Severn or Sharpness Canal , and around Easter Compton , South Gloucestershire . In southeast Wales , they can be found on the Caldicot and Wentloog Levels . Many of them are still in use today .   A large number of rhynes in England and Wales are maintained as part of the water resource management operations of internal drainage boards . The rhynes near Wembdon village have some early references , including Fichet 's rhyne in 1579 and the Great or Wildmarsh rhyne in 1705 .   Some sources claim that rhyne is derived from the Irish word rathin , a diminutive of rath -- a circular mound or entrenchment .

Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources , which are naturally replenished on a human timescale , such as sunlight , wind , rain , tides , waves , and geothermal heat . Renewable energy often provides energy in four important areas : electricity generation , air and water heating/cooling , transportation , and rural ( off-grid ) energy services .   Based on REN21 's 2016 report , renewables contributed 19.2 % to humans ' global energy consumption and 23.7 % to their generation of electricity in 2014 and 2015 , respectively . This energy consumption is divided as 8.9 % coming from traditional biomass , 4.2 % as heat energy ( modern biomass , geothermal and solar heat ) , 3.9 % hydro electricity and 2.2 % is electricity from wind , solar , geothermal , and biomass . Worldwide investments in renewable technologies amounted to more than US$ 286 billion in 2015 , with countries like China and the United States heavily investing in wind , hydro , solar and biofuels . Globally , there are an estimated 7.7 million jobs associated with the renewable energy industries , with solar photovoltaics being the largest renewable employer . As of 2015 worldwide , more than half of all new electricity capacity installed was renewable .   Renewable energy resources exist over wide geographical areas , in contrast to other energy sources , which are concentrated in a limited number of countries . Rapid deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency is resulting in significant energy security , climate change mitigation , and economic benefits . The results of a recent review of the literature concluded that as greenhouse gas ( GHG ) emitters begin to be held liable for damages resulting from GHG emissions resulting in climate change , a high value for liability mitigation would provide powerful incentives for deployment of renewable energy technologies . In international public opinion surveys there is strong support for promoting renewable sources such as solar power and wind power . At the national level , at least 30 nations around the world already have renewable energy contributing more than 20 percent of energy supply . National renewable energy markets are projected to continue to grow strongly in the coming decade and beyond . Some places and at least two countries , Iceland and Norway generate all their electricity using renewable energy already , and many other countries have the set a goal to reach 100 % renewable energy in the future . For example , in Denmark the government decided to switch the total energy supply ( electricity , mobility and heating/cooling ) to 100 % renewable energy by 2050 .   While many renewable energy projects are large-scale , renewable technologies are also suited to rural and remote areas and developing countries , where energy is often crucial in human development . United Nations ' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that renewable energy has the ability to lift the poorest nations to new levels of prosperity . As most of renewables provide electricity , renewable energy deployment is often applied in conjunction with further electrification , which has several benefits : Electricity can be converted to heat ( where necessary generating higher temperatures than fossil fuels ) , can be converted into mechanical energy with high efficiency and is clean at the point of consumption . In addition to that electrification with renewable energy is much more efficient and therefore leads to a significant reduction in primary energy requirements , because most renewables do n't have a steam cycle with high losses ( fossil power plants usually have losses of 40 to 65 % ) .   Renewable energy systems are rapidly becoming more efficient and cheaper . Their share of total energy consumption is increasing . Growth in consumption of coal and oil could end by 2020 due to increased uptake of renewables and natural gas .