River
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Finally, the risk of sea-level rise and
river
flooding is most severe in Louisiana, which we anticipate will have the greatest number of counties affected by 2050.
They may recognize gods of the village, the river, the forest, and the mountain.
Fish suffocated in the Rhine
river.
Sometimes, history seems like a rushing
river
whose course is shaped by precipitation and topography, and leaders are simply ants clinging to a log in the current.
But, far from protecting against water shortages, as supporters promise, large dams are contributing to
river
depletion and severely exacerbating parched conditions.
Farmers in the
river
basin, Asia’s Rice Bowl, produce enough rice to feed 300 million people per year.
This vital waterway is now under threat, largely owing to a series of Chinese-built mega-dams near the border of the Tibetan Plateau, just before the
river
crosses into Southeast Asia.
Instead of overflowing during the summer, the Mekong
River
Commission reports, the
river
reached record-low levels, depleting fish stocks and setting back rice production.
To harness sufficient energy, pre-industrial fuels need huge, nature-despoiling – hardly “green” or “environmentally friendly” – power stations: massive arrays of solar panels, forests of gigantic windmills, and vast flooded
river
valleys.
Some analysts liken the flow of history to a rushing river, whose course is shaped by the climate, rainfall, geology, and topography, not by whatever the
river
carries.
By building 11 mega-dams near the border of the Tibetan Plateau, just before the
river
crosses into Southeast Asia, China has irreparably damaged the
river
system and wreaked broader environmental havoc, including saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta that has caused the delta to retreat.
Deng Xiaoping summed up this approach with his axiom, “crossing the
river
by feeling the stones.”
Clearly, there is a double standard at work: although dams can affect
river
flows and displace populations, it is not as if solar, wind, and mining for silicon and iron ore have no environmental impact.
One of the principal factors in its success has been its extraordinary stock of
river
infrastructure.
Over the last 20 years, China’s
river
systems have been manipulated in unprecedented ways not only to avoid a repeat of 1998, but also to generate enough hydropower to sustain industrialization.
First, it demonstrated that
river
control is an illusion; rivers can be managed, but never totally controlled.
Investments in expensive fixed assets like dams must be accompanied by a thoughtful approach to managing a live
river
system.
He pointed to a dark-green little island in an enormous half-mown wet meadow stretching along the right bank of the
river.
He turned over, and leaning on his elbows began looking at a herd of cattle in the distance approaching the
river
on the other side.
It was always so, and these Piolaine people had carried water to the
river.
Négrel joked over the legend, and explained that a fire often occurred at the bottom of a mine from the fermentation of the coal dust; if not mastered it would burn on for ever, and he mentioned a Belgian pit which had been flooded by diverting a
river
and running it into the pit.
The mine drank down this river; the galleries would now be submerged for years.
The frigate then went along the New Jersey coast--the wonderful right bank of this river, all loaded down with country homes-- and passed by the forts to salutes from their biggest cannons.
Near them some semiphosphorescent red porgy rolled by, a variety of gilthead that the Egyptians ranked among their sacred animals, lauding them in religious ceremonies when their arrival in the
river'
s waters announced the fertile flood season.
Before the Nautilus's spur there lay vast broken plains, a tangle of confused chunks with all the helter-skelter unpredictability typical of a
river'
s surface a short while before its ice breakup; but in this case the proportions were gigantic.
We then went with the current of the sea's greatest river, which has its own banks, fish, and temperature.
It is indeed a
river
that runs independently through the middle of the Atlantic, its waters never mixing with the ocean's waters.
It's a salty river, saltier than the sea surrounding it.
It was on this oceanic
river
that the Nautilus was then navigating.
And if Commander Maury is correct, were one to harness the full warmth of this current, it would supply enough heat to keep molten a
river
of iron solder as big as the Amazon or the Missouri."
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