We aimed to determine the presence of Ixodes ricinusticks in heavily populated areas of the Po River Valley after report of a Lyme disease case. Eighteen percent of ticks examined from 3 locations were positive for Lyme disease borreliae. Lyme disease was diagnosed for 3 workers at risk for tick bite.

To evaluate the current status of the western population of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) along the Sacramento and Feather rivers in California's Sacramento Valley, we conducted extensive call playback surveys in 2012 and 2013. We also quantified the amount and distribution of potential habitat. Our survey transects were randomly located and spatially balanced to sample represe...

The transfer of water, sediment, and other materials to floodplains is a function of the hydrology of inundation. Inundation of floodplains by regional water, that is, overbank flow from the main river channel, and local water, that is, groundwater, hyporheic water, local tributary water, and direct precipitation onto the floodplain, is such that some rivers inundate dry floodplains, while othe...

Remote sensing and field evidence are used to describe sand deposits found in associated pathways of emplacement in the eastern Mojave Desert. Two separate pathways are identified here: one extending eastward from the Bristol Playa through the Cadiz and Danby Playas and Rice Valley to the Colorado River, and a second parallel path extending eastward from Dale Playa through the Palen and Ford Pl...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0102-311X00000616 An emblematic case of journalism that is contrary to the public interest was the coverage, by newspapers O Globo and Folha de S. Paulo about the worst socioenvironmental disaster in Brazil, which affected the municipality of Mariana, Minas Gerais State, and the entire Doce river valley, caused by mining company Samarco, a joint venture between Brazili...

rijab valley, located in 180 km west of kermanshah, is considered to be one of the tourists centers of kermanshah because of having various landscapes and monuments. however, the results of one of the field studies of 157 tourist subjects show that the majority of the tourists do not know much about all the attractions of the valley. in a way that about 31.2% of the tourists were not aware of t...

The Büyük Menderes River, which plays an important role in the formation of geomorphology Western Anatolia, has been a factor directly affecting life established on geography where it located for millennia. In case Tripolis, importance River and archaeological excavations that have going ten years, our knowledge views how trade city may shaped by played are increasing day day. this study, we tr...

The present study attempts to optimize the outflow and the water distribution of entire Damodar catchment with the help of Artificial Neural Network(ANN). It is worth to mention that the large river valley project like Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) with four dams and one barrage makes the simulation of Damodar more challenging, as it becomes a controlled flow system. Event of heavy floods ar...