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The Syrian Desert (Arabic: Bdiyat Ash-Shm), also known as the Syrian steppe, Jordanian steppe, or Badia, is a 500,000-square-kilometer (200,000-square-mile) region of desert, semi-desert, and steppe in the Middle East, encompassing parts of southeastern Syria, northeastern Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia, and western Iraq. It covers 85 percent of Jordan’s land area and 55 percent of […]

Smallest Country in the World  The world is full of big and small countries. Basically, there are two most important factors on which country size is recognized and those two factors are firstly a big or small country identified based on the fact that how much land areas do that country occupy and the second

Water that flows over segmented waterfalls separates into separate streams. The streams of Nigretta Falls, a segmented waterfall in Victoria, Australia, are separated by massive outcroppings of hard rock before they merge in a vast plunge pool. Waterfalls: A waterfall is a steep drop of water from a river or other body of water into

The Atlantic and Pacific oceans spread away from Europe and Asia, respectively, at about 2.5 inches per year. It means that the coastline of Europe and Asia is gradually moving out from the centre of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This process is called seafloor spreading, and it’s happening due to the increase in global

On the African continent, the Sahara is a desert. It is the world’s largest hot desert and the third largest desert overall, with an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 square miles), second only to the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic. It runs from the Red Sea in the east and the Mediterranean

The Production Gap Report, first published in 2019, tracks the difference between governments’ planned oil and gas production and global manufacturing levels consistent with keeping the temperature to 1.5°C or 2°C. The report results from a collaboration between several researchers and academic institutions and input from over 40 experts. UNEP staff provided guidance and insights

The water leaves contact with the bedrock utterly, either as a result of the speed at which the water is moving or as a result of the force of the falling water that has scoured the softer rock of the formation over time. Plunge waterfalls could have enough area between the water and also the

Adopting environment-friendly disposal of plastic to control the amount of plastic waste in the environment is known as plastic waste management. It is a global issue that has been faced by almost every country. There have been many initiatives taken by many countries individually. Still, a huge change was never recorded as this is a

The word Patagonia is supposed to be derived from Patagones, the name given to the Tehuelche Indians, the region’s original inhabitants, by Spanish explorers in the 16th century. According to legend, Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese navigator who led the first European expedition into the area, named the Tehuelche after Patagon, a dog-headed monster from Amads

India’s largest energy company, NTPC Ltd, has been working on the largest MW floating solar PV project and recently commissioned it, supposedly of 25MW and situated in the Simhadri, Andhra Pradesh. This project is said to be notified by the Government of India in 2018 and is the very initial solar project to be set