2455 papers
This study demonstrates that neglecting air-sea coupling in event attribution models leads to an overestimation of the human contribution to the 2015 equatorial Asia drought, as atmosphere-only simulations fail to capture critical sea surface temperature feedbacks that reduce the calculated fraction of attributable risk.
This study evaluates the declining population and indigenous management practices of the endangered *Hagenia abyssinica* (Kosso) among smallholder farmers in the Gamo Highlands of Southern Ethiopia, revealing its dominance in homegardens and mature age structure while urging coordinated conservation efforts to address its threatened status.
This documentary–geospatial study argues that Ghana's 2026 Cabinet decision to revoke E.I. 144 regarding the Achimota Forest Reserve constitutes a policy shift rather than guaranteed ecological restoration, emphasizing that genuine protection requires five critical transitions—legal completion, spatial restitution, institutional coordination, ecological rehabilitation, and public accountability—to address historical path dependence and convert the decision into durable conservation.
This paper demonstrates that assigning municipal landfill methane responsibility based on actual waste routing and facility-specific data, rather than default accounting conventions, reveals significant discrepancies in emission estimates and jurisdictional rankings, highlighting the critical need for explicit scope and provenance in greenhouse gas inventories.
This study integrates MFA, LCA, and TEA to evaluate Switzerland's PET management pathways, concluding that while maximizing mechanical recycling and expanding depolymerization offer the most cost-effective environmental benefits, technological improvements alone are insufficient to meet climate targets without a concurrent reduction in PET demand.
Although most physicochemical and heavy metal parameters of the Allah River in the Southern Philippines currently meet national standards, elevated levels of total suspended solids, phosphates, fecal coliform, and downstream chemical oxygen demand indicate emerging conservation concerns driven by agricultural and settlement activities, highlighting the urgent need for regular monitoring and improved watershed management within the Allah Valley Protected Landscape.
This study reveals that increased winter temperature variability enhances spring dust storm intensity through a cross-seasonal soil-memory effect that dries deeper soil layers, thereby resolving the paradox between long-term warming trends and intensified dust activity while enabling unprecedented seasonal predictions.
This study reveals that the July 2026 Gironde–Landes wildfires in France created an outdoor activity-restricting smoke footprint up to 149 times larger than the burned area, demonstrating that transported air pollution, rather than the fire perimeter itself, poses the primary constraint on human activity across a vast downwind region.
This study develops an integrated GIS-based framework to generate a spatially explicit Waste Risk Index for the Kolkata Metropolitan Area by synthesizing diverse environmental, ecological, and socio-economic factors, thereby enabling targeted risk mapping and evidence-based urban planning to address municipal solid waste challenges.
This study reveals that rapidly growing landfill methane emissions in sub-Saharan Africa could consume up to 4.5% of the remaining 1.5°C carbon budget by 2100, yet remain largely unaddressed in national climate commitments due to a critical lack of targets, misaligned financing, and a development paradox where improved waste collection without disposal alternatives may inadvertently increase measurable emissions without reducing them.