Research reports and study findings related to hydropower from April 2014

The threat of climate change is driving China and the U.S. — frequent rivals and the world’s two largest greenhouse-gas emitters — to collaborate on dozens of potential clean-energy breakthroughs.

Collection of articles related to hydropower technology

The intrusion of the Arabian Sea into the mouth of the Indus River in Pakistanis forcing villages to relocate inland, and threatening livelihoods.

Ben Igbakpa, a member of the House of Representatives, representing Ethiope East and Ethiope West Federal Constituency of Delta State, in this interview, speaks on the intendment of the controversial Infectious Disease Control Bill, saying sponsors mean well for Nigeria.

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The Pakistan Development Foundation has asked the government to allow the students of final semesters in BS and masters programme to return to the universities. Muhammad Bilal Sethi, the chairman of the foundation, wrote a letter to Governor Shah Farman, who is chancellor of public sector...

Both West African greats won the lot at Stamford Bridge, but who had the greater influence in West London? ......

Chelsea winger, Willian, is believed to be mulling over a three-year deal from Arsenal, Daily Cannon reports. Willian is set to become a free agent this summer, when his current deal runs out at Stamford Bridge. With the 2019/2020 campaign still to be concluded, players who are out of contract at the end of June […]

EPL: Willian offered three-year deal to leave Chelsea for Arsenal

A former Chelsea manager, Guus Hiddink, has claimed that the Blues’ 2009 UEFA Champions League semi-final defeat to Barcelona might have been fixed. Hiddink said that the officiating of the encounter by referee Tom Henning Ovrebo was the worst he has ever seen. Chelsea was denied a spot in the Champions League final after Ovrebo […]

Chelsea’s Champions League semi-final match against Barcelona was fixed – Guus Hiddink alleges

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ibrahim Pantami has directed agencies under the Ministry to make available research grants for the development of digital solutions to COVID 19 and innovative ideas in the post COVID 19 era in the country. Pantami made the remarks during the virtual Final Demo and Prize Giving Day […]

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Police are urgently trying to find the owner of a kayak that was abandoned off the coast of Auckland.A police spokesperson said they were told just after 3.30pm today of a kayak that appeared to have overturned with one person in...

The United States has ramped up its military operations in waters close to China this year as the risk of confrontation between the two nations continues to grow.So far this year, aircraft from the US armed forces have conducted 39 flights over the South China Sea, East China Sea, Yellow Sea and the Taiwan Strait – more than three times the number carried out in the equivalent period of 2019.Two of the flights passed closed to Hong Kong, a rare move that indicated their proximity to mainland…

Channelling Trump, Baldwin dispenses some words of advice to the class.

Reducing carbon emissions could mean difference between 1 and over 4 feet of sea level rise

Environmental and charitable groups call on Sandinista government to respond to hunger and drought

Prized in Asia as a luxury food, marine creature numbers could be dwindling

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A minor boy feared to have died while bathing in a storm water drain in the Khamiso Goth area on Saturday.According to the New Karachi Industrial Area police, the incident took place when 11-year-old Hamza was bathing in the storm water drain along with some other kids near his residence. Rescuers...

With the championship race in Brooklyn, New York over the weekend of July 14-15, Harman Kardon recently wrapped a second successful season partnering with BMW i and the MS&AD Andretti Formula E team. The ABB FIA Formula E Championship began in 2014 ...

The PGA of Australia tour will be extended from this season with tournaments staged well into the new year, the governing body of professional golf in the country announced on Sunday.

Search teams bring in more bodies from the AirAsia crash to a military base in Indonesia. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

"It is important that individuals still do what they can to protect themselves and others," said Emory University health expert Robert A. Bednarczyk.

Despite a lukewarm reception at its initial launch, the team at Rare remained committed to its vision of a pirate adventure on the high seas.

Priscilla Bienkowski, 18, and Sophia Hernandez, 17, have been missing since Wednesday when they were tubing on Utah Lake.

Singer Mariah Carey wrote, "My heart is breaking, and I can't stop crying. He was an amazing friend and I will miss him forever."

"I'm so honored to be your validictator," he says.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver is cautiously optimistic about finishing out the season in a two-site plan which will likely not include fans -- a condition that may carry into next season. 

ZYUS Life Sciences is working with VIDO-InterVac to see if proteins produced by plants can be made into a working COVID-19 vaccine. 

Of all the Halloween costumes out there, this guy and his girlfriend blew everyone away.

Sarah Falzon, a Toronto-based entertainment lawyer with Taylor Oballa Murray Leyland LLP, joins us to chat about the recent slew of copyright infringement lawsuits hitting pop stars, including Drake and Katy Perry, as well as Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, and Ed Sheeran.

As Sarah says, it seems like the floodgates have opened in the wake of the infamous “Blurred Lines” conflict in which the estate of Marvin Gaye successfully sued Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for copying the “feel” and “sound” of Gaye’s 1977 song, “Got to Give It Up.” We discuss the details of the newer lawsuits that make them interesting and whether we really have entered a riskier era for songwriters. Sarah also explains if the U.S. lawsuits have any bearing on Canadian songwriters and the relevant differences between Canadian and American copyright law.

Former Toulouse manager Antoine Kombouare said there should be direct action after the French top division was called to a premature halt

The season officially begins June 1, but some meteorologists who have been tracking ocean and atmospheric dynamics over the past few months say conditions are ripe for storms.

The idea is to identify the problem of burnout early and stop it before it happens.

On a dusty plaza in a Native American village that dates back nearly a millennium, a steady trickle of vehicles inched through a pop-up coronavirus testing site. The mandatory testing — under the threat of fines by the tribal council in Picuris Pueblo — was being performed by the state Health Department and U.S. Indian Health Service as they strive to identify potential infection hot spots and contain the virus that's ravaged other Native American communities. Small Native American pueblos across New Mexico are embracing extraordinary isolation measures that turn away outsiders as well as near-universal testing to try to insulate themselves from a contagion with frightening echoes of the past.

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Watching 'Saturday Night Live' adapt to the lockdown era has been a fun and joyful respite. This third episode of 'SNL at Home' suggests the show will be missed even more than usual until its return in the fall

Leslie A. Pope, a celebrated set decorator who received an Oscar nomination for the 2003 film Seabiscuit, has died. She was 65. Pope passed away on Wednesday at her home in Venice, according to an obituary in her hometown newspaper, the Bowling Green Daily News. She had been recovering from heart surgery in February. Pope […]

Tina Fey returned to Saturday Night Live to lament the quarantine and dream about Governor Cuomo’s alleged nipple ring. The SNL alum and 30 Rock creator joined Michael Che on her old post on Weekend Update, where she famously appeared alongside Jimmy Fallon and Amy Poehler between 2000 and 2006. She joked about Zoom backgrounds, […]

Chelsea star Christian Pulisic says he will be "forever" grateful to Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp for giving him his first chance to impress at Borussia Dortmund.

Inter Milan midfielder Christian Eriksen has revealed that he has been living at the club's training ground after the coronavirus outbreak cut short his house search.

Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes Liverpool will still be considered "champions in everyone's head" – even if they are never crowned.

Adam Silver reportedly said the league does not have to make a decision on playing or cancelling the 2019-20 season this month and can wait until sometime in June.

Australia’s frontline white ball spinner, Adam Zampa, is poised to leave South Australia in the off-season for a move back home to New South Wales.

AFL players breaching COVID-19 protocols face being suspended for the entire 2020 season.

Chelsea legend Petr Cech has revealed he played through part of two title-winning seasons with two TORN shoulders.

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MLB is expected to submit a proposal to players Tuesday to start the season in early July. The Dodgers and Angels would play at home and largely on the West Coast.

The startups in this cohort have raised over $39 million.

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VCs, startups and industry associations have banded together to offer funds and assistance.

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