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CLIMATE CHANGE, GLOBAL WARMING AND ITS EFFECTS

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What Is Climate? How Is It Different From Weather? You might know what weather is. Weather is the changes we see and feel outside from day to day. It might rain one day and be sunny the next. Sometimes it is cold. Sometimes it is hot.  People in one place might be wearing shorts and playing outside. At the same time, people far away might be shoveling snow. Climate is the usual weather of a place. Climate can be different for different seasons. A place might be mostly warm and dry in the summer. The same place may be cool and wet in the winter. Different places can have different climates. You might live where it snows all the time. And some people live where it is always warm enough to swim outside! There's also Earth's climate. Earth's climate is what you get when you combine all the climates around the world together. What Is Climate Change? Climate change is a change in the usual weather found in a place. This could be a change in how much rain a place usually gets in a...

Covid-19

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  COVID-19 is  the illness that presents on being infected by a deadly coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2.  This SARS-related virus was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.   This virus is a new coronavirus that has spread throughout the world. It is thought to spread mainly through close contact from person to person. More than a year after Covid-19 touched off the worst pandemic in more than a century, scientists have yet to determine its  origins . The closest related viruses to SARS-CoV-2 were found in bats some 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) from the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the disease erupted in late 2019. Initially, cases were tied to a fresh food market and possibly the  wildlife  sold there. An investigation in early 2021 has highlighted the possibility that they acted as a vector, transferring the virus from bats to humans. More politically charged theories allege the virus  accidentally escaped  from ...

Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

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  ASEAN means Association of Southeast Asian Nation. ASEAN was created on 8 August 1967  when the foreingn minister of five country Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand signed the ASEAN Declaration. ASEAN has  10 members .   Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand , and Vietnam. i ndonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore,   and Thailand joined ASEAN in the year 1967, Laos and myammar joined in the year 1997,    Brunei joined ASEAN in 1984,vietnam joined in 1995. cambodia joined in 1999. ASEAN member states Flag Country Capital Area (km 2 ) Population Density (/km 2 ) GDP per cap. (PPP) [3] HDI [4] Currency Official languages Leaders Accession [5] Heads of State Heads of Government Brunei Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace Bandar Seri Begawan 5,765 411,900 [6] 65 76,743 0.853 Brunei dollar (BND; B$) Malay Sultan  and  Prime Minister   Hassanal Bolkiah 7 January...