"Meteorological Service in Fifteenth Century Sandwich"
Minstrels (or waits) in the 15th century Port of Sandwich walked the streets at night and woke mariners with information about wind directions…
rivers
"Man Against the Sea: Natural and Anthropogenic Factors in the Changing Morphology of Harngzhou Bay, circa 1000–1800"
Inner Harngzhou Bay, on the east coast of China at approximately 30 degrees N, is an unstable macrotidal estuarine system whose geographical configuration has altered dramatically over the last thousand years…
From Grains to Riches: How Hydropower Production on the Möll River in the Austrian Alps Went from Local to Supra-Regional
Flooding of the Rhine and Elbe Rivers and North German and Dutch Coasts
Broadsheet: “The Great and Terrible Flood,” January 1651
Potrayal of the devastation caused by a massive flood along stretches of the Danube, Neckar, Main, and Rhein in January 1651.
Taming the Danube: Floodplain Regulation in the Machland
Arcadia, 2011, no. 2
Three Gorges Dam
In 1992, China approves the construction of the Three Gorges dam. It would be completed in 2008.
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Regions:
Johnstown Flood
Great Flood of the Huang-Ho River
Haridwar Dam and Upper Ganges Canal
The completion of this infrastructure leads to lasting controversy over the severe deterioration in the flow of the Ganges and the decay of the river as an inland waterway.
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