2353 papers
This study presents the first tehsil-level assessment of Kasur District, Pakistan, revealing ubiquitous microplastic contamination in groundwater used for drinking and irrigation, with fiber-dominated particles primarily originating from domestic sewage, textile effluents, and plastic packaging.
Based on a 20-year analysis of 151 Chinese cities, this study reveals that while residential electricity demand consistently rises with heat regardless of development levels, future climate-driven vulnerability will be most severe in southern cities under moderate socioeconomic scenarios due to the convergence of high heat exposure and limited adaptive capacity, necessitating adaptation strategies that address both individual burdens and aggregate population risks.
This study utilizes a Monte Carlo-based probabilistic health risk assessment to demonstrate that airborne heavy metal emissions from a medical waste incinerator in Ido-Ekiti, Nigeria, pose a near-certain non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic health risk to nearby populations, highlighting the limitations of deterministic models and the urgent need for stricter pollution controls and buffer zones.
This study demonstrates that a heat budget model driven by Earth's energy imbalance and El Niño-related subsurface heat release successfully explains global temperature variations during the Argo era and projects that a potential 1997/98-like El Niño in 2026–2027 could push global temperatures to a record 1.80 K above the pre-industrial baseline.
This paper proposes and models a mechanism linking the intensification of gas emissions in mining areas, such as Kuzbass, to the downward migration of critically stressed crustal states and associated seismicity, which creates fractures that allow methane to migrate from deep geological formations (up to 5–6 km) into mine workings.
This study demonstrates that increasing shrub cover on European alpine summits significantly buffers soil microclimates against free-air temperature fluctuations, with the effect being non-linear, stronger for deciduous shrubs, and highly dependent on season, slope aspect, and snow presence.
This study presents a spatially explicit framework demonstrating that invasive alien tree clearing in South Africa can often achieve financial self-sufficiency through the combined economic value of water conservation and biomass sales, thereby offering a viable model for funding ecological restoration while suggesting targeted public funding for cases with lower economic returns but high ecological impact.
This study utilized statistical analysis on 5,000 simulated fluid-dynamic observations to demonstrate strong, significant correlations between key atmospheric and oceanic variables, while emphasizing the necessity for physical validation and comparison with real-world data to confirm their applicability to actual weather and climate systems.
This study introduces a novel, computationally efficient particle-tracking method to generate the first high-resolution global assessment of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) efficiency, revealing significant spatial variability with high efficacy in (sub)tropical coastal regions but limited effectiveness in areas like Antarctica and parts of the North Atlantic.
This paper presents the first automated, in-situ delivery device capable of administering scalable, pre-programmed doses of beneficial coral microorganisms (BMCs) at depths up to 25 meters for 30 days, offering a cost-effective solution to overcome the limitations of manual probiotic application in coral reef restoration.