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Climate change quadruples flood‐causing extreme monsoon rainfall events in Bangladesh and northeast India

open access: yesQuarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Volume 150, Issue 760, Page 1267-1287, April 2024 Part A.
Figure shows May–June 2022 flooding event showing 5 days cumulative rainfall for (a) May 15–May 19 and (b) June 14–June 18 (from Integrated Multi‐satellite Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement data) and (c) May and (d) June flood inundated area.
Abdullah A. Fahad   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tectono-sedimentary evolution of upper Assam “inter-orogenic” peripheral foreland basin, India

open access: yesDiscover Geoscience
The northern periphery of the Indian craton is the leading edge of the under-thrusting continent in the continent–continent collision set up between the Indian and Eurasian plates.
S. K. Biswas, Gaurav Chauhan
doaj   +1 more source

Phylogeography, Diversification, and Historical Demography of The White-toothed Rats (berylmys) in indochina [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Berylmys, the White-toothed rats, and other members of the Rattus sl (Rattus, Maxomys, Leopoldamys, Niviventer, Bandicota, and Sundamys) evolved from 3-5 million years ago during a period of dynamic landscape change in Indochinese south Asia wherein ...
Tuttle, Kristy Lee
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Reflections on Recent Recommendations on the Use of Science in Disaster Risk Reduction Using Case Studies from Bangladesh and the Western United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The valuable role that science has to play in disaster preparedness and risk reduction is widely recognized and was highlighted during the development of the successor to the Hyogo Framework for Action for disaster risk reduction that was adopted in ...
Lindquist, Eric, Sargeant, Susanne
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Global water: issues and insights [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This book brings together some of the world’s leading water researchers with an especially written collection of chapters on: water economics; transboundary water; water and development; water and energy; and water concepts.
Chris White   +3 more
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The Gathering Storm: Infectious Diseases and Human Rights in Burma [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Documents how decades of repressive rule, civil war, and poor governance in Burma have contributed to the spread of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other infectious ...
Andrew Moss   +8 more
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Late Pleistocene pteropods, heteropods and planktonic foraminifera from the Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Pteropods and heteropods (holoplanktonic gastropods) are an important component of the modern oceans; however, detailed information on their distribution in the fossil record is often based on poorly preserved specimens.
Aliani, Stefano   +7 more
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Locked and loading megathrust linked to active subduction beneath the Indo-Burman Ranges [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Indo-Burman mountain rangesmarkthe boundary between the Indian and Eurasian plates, north of the Sumatra–Andaman subduction zone. Whether subduction still occurs along this subaerial section of the plate boundary, with 46mm/yr of highly oblique ...
A Heuret   +46 more
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ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY BASED SHALLOW CRUSTAL DEFORMATION ANALYSIS IN AN ACTIVE SEISMIC ZONE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper aims to assess the shallow crustal deformation in a highly seismic-prone zone ofnortheast India. For that purpose, Tripura University campus has been selected which isnearly 8 km away from Agartala city.
Debbarma, Chandrani   +3 more
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Twenty Years of Working Towards a Sustainable Southeast Asia: 1993 -- 2013 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Southeast Asia program first set about testing hypotheses applicable to each of the three ecosystem zones. On the forest margins, the hypothesis was that complex agroforests provided a superior alternative for small-scale farmers to either food-crop ...

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