Hydroelectric energy source arises from cascading or streaming water. The falling or streaming water provides kinetic power whenever it goes from higher elevations to lower elevations. “Hydro” means water. Hydro power uses the strength of running h2o to produce electrical energy. In the most basic terms, water falls because of the law of gravity, that

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MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Governments in Asia and the Pacific need to prepare for a large increase in climate-induced migration in the coming years, says a forthcoming report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Typhoons, cyclones, floods and drought are forcing more and more people to migrate. In the past year alone, extreme weather in Malaysia,

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Researchers monitoring melting glaciers in the Himalayan Mountains have found that debris coverage – pebbles, rocks, and debris from surrounding mountains – has the opposite effect to soot and dust on glaciers. Bodo Bookhagen, of the University of California at Santa Barbara, explains: “Debris coverage thickness above 2 cm ‘shields’ the glacier and prevents melting. This

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