Rain

Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then become heavy enough to fall under gravity. Rain is a major component of the water cycle and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the Earth. It provides suitable conditions for many types of ecosystems, as well as water for hydroelectric power plants and crop irrigation. The major cause of rain production is moisture moving along three-dimensional zones of temperature and moisture contrasts known as weather fronts. If enough moisture and upward motion is present, precipitation falls from convective …

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UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 7 April 2024 English

“Inspiring, healing, and future-facing, this long overdue book gives us valuable new insights into the histories and identities of Métis people.”

land Rock picking is peaceful work Three days of rain shaped the foreword for this book. I started the their coats turning grey as winter approaches. The rain played with the snow and finally after three days


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 4 April 2024 English

That Audible Slippage invokes a poetics of active listening and environmental sound to investigate the ways in which we both hear and fail to hear insufficiency, loss, incompleteness, and other …

palm cheek you’d be better informed It doesn’t rain No slither of garters nothing inhospitable nor


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 4 April 2024 English

Deviant traces a trajectory of queer self-discovery from childhood to adulthood, examining love, fear, grief, and the violence that men are capable of in intimate same-sex relationships. Richly engaged with …

Rhiann on N g C he n g Hin, author of Fire Cider Rain “Deviant deftly embodies that complex space of queer and my legs dangled out the bedroom window, heavy rain sailing down, the sound like pennies on the corrugated loneliest homos are the ones I sing awake when the rain asks if they’ll stay till late morning. I’d like


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 4 April 2024 English

Fresh, funny, and imbued with infectious energy, Northerny tells a much-needed and compelling story of growing up and living in the North. Here are no tidy tales of aurora borealis …

closes the door from across the room 11. only the rain is still talking to these trees10 5 Ways of Shutting cigarette to smoke walking somewhere else. There was rain and I hunched around my hand.20 She wants my garden his hip. The knee that pops like a tail slap on a rain-ringed pond. The wet is in the air, the pool, the magazines in the outhouse. I used to think it didn’t rain at night. It rains in summer, and summer is full


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 2 April 2024 English

All Sky, Mirror Ocean is for everyone looking to understand the complex issues around mental illness and healing. Combining autobiography, research-creation, poetry, and creative philosophy, Brad Necyk uses art and …

such as soil, mycelium, sun, air, gardener, cloud, rain, and many more conditions for its manifestation hard rain hits and we rush inside. We talk, but I am looking out the window. Did it always rain this west east south. I feel eco-anxieties as a rain hits one that hits particularly hard, that pours sacred hallucination within Being.66 Just a Hard Rain #17, 2014. Digital drawing.67 THE OPEN Agamben


Alberta WaterSMART Solutions · 1 April 2024 English

This showcases the dedication of water managers and advocates in the SSRB to strategic water resource management, and it has improved the water management outlook of the SSRB. [...] For …

occur as precipitation, which is partitioned into rain or snow following the HBV linear transition based


FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 April 2024 English

From award-winning poet Catherine Owen, a collection of poems about one woman's journey from BC to a new life in Alberta, where she buys an old house and creates a …

box door, puzzled as it had become by years of rain eroding its particle board, tarnishing the plexiglass recycling bin to save what remains from the relentless rain until the door returns to enclose, protect, offer its rays, stroll distances in comfort. I miss the rain because I know it and the streets, how they curve the end, I don’t really know the difference. 3 A rain and I return to definite evidence of what was once in soft plods off the metal roof, then a choke of rain or wind cracking the heads off everything. The


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 30 March 2024 English

Emily McGiffin’s poems examine imperial violence and colonialism in South Africa and Canada. Multifaceted and multi-voiced, Emily McGiffin’s poems explore the ongoing violence, destruction, and loss wrought by colonialism and …

had we of anything but sun and grain the pane of rain gathering behind the dam the scent of earth and season come round again49 beneath the weight of rain the earthwork crumples water awakes to its new life assemblage of his limbs, a monarch alight in a downing rain crouched alone i tend the embers of a generation barley the simmering pines98 where does the petering rain retreat to? blockish clods and cumulus lifting from in the air around the cedars, pine boughs dark, rain silvery upon them, geese clattering overhead and


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 27 March 2024 English

The report follows the publication of Safe at Work, Unsafe at Home: COVID-19 and Temporary Foreign Workers in Prince Edward Island in 2021 and Unfree Labour: COVID-19 and Migrant Workers …

to pay out of pocket for equipment like boots and rain gear, despite their contracts stating that these for work. And there are times when we work in the rain and so on, but we have to buy our boots, raincoats capacity of the farms and the weather, with heavy rain being the primary cause of lost hours. Some worked


National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health · 15 March 2024 English

Temporary evacuations due to fires or floods could affect stored water quality due to disuse and stagnation causing increased water age and growth of bacteria and biofilms, enhanced by moderate …

led illnesses, 20 to ingress of animal feces via rain or hospitalizations, and snowmelt and animals gaining


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