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  Juniper Publishers-Open Access Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources Will Climate Change Cause Hurricanes Like Maria to Become More Common? Authored by Ronald T Richards Abstract Hurricane Maria, a category 4 storm devastated Puerto Rico on 20 September 2018. For most people, the power blackout lasted three or more months. With the electricity, all aspects of modern society such as telephones, Internet, radio stations, newspapers, first responders, food, water, propane, and gasoline became hard to get. The death toll is still being debated and will never be know exactly. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005 most deaths were due to flooding when the levees failed. In Hurricane Maria more of the deaths are due to the collapse of the health care system. Many climate models predict that climate change will make powerful hurricanes more common, but this has yet to be proven. Keywords:   Hurricane Maria; Puerto Rico; Climate Change Go to Introduction...

  Juniper Publishers-Open Access Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources Evaluation of Physiological Characteristics of Different Peach Varieties Under the Agro-Climatic Conidiationof Buner at Agriculture Research Station, Buner Authored by Faraz Ali Shah Abstract The research on the “Evaluation of physiological characteristics of different peach varieties under the agro climatic condition of Buner” was carried out at Agriculture Research Station (ARS), Buner during 2017. Three varieties i.e. TexasY-455, Golden, and Coronet were tested for physiological attributes. The results were compared. The mean maximum number of fruit shoot -1   (4.77), number of fruit plant -1   (232.66), fruit flesh weight (121.6g), stone weight (6.8g) were recorded for variety TexasY-455, while the mean minimum fruit shoot -1   (2.6), fruit flesh weight (81.8g), stone weight (4.2g) were recorded for variety Coronet. The variety Coronet shows poor results among Texas-455, G...