2455 papers
This study analyzes five years of air quality data (2013–2017) in Bukit Rambai and Muar, revealing that while the regions generally experienced good to moderate air quality, they faced severe, episodic pollution spikes—most notably in June 2013—driven by transboundary haze events.
This study analyzes hourly solar radiation data from twelve stations across Pernambuco, Brazil, revealing that while the semi-arid interior possesses the highest mean irradiance, forecastability and temporal organization vary spatially and are distinct from resource magnitude, with ENSO events further modulating coastal anomalies.
This study demonstrates that strategic implementation of building-integrated greenery across the Sydney basin, particularly reaching a critical 20% coverage threshold, triggers non-linear improvements in ecological connectivity for pollinators and birds, with green walls proving more effective than green roofs at lower adoption rates and highlighting the need for landscape-scale governance over individual building regulations.
Based on an analysis of 165 shallow groundwater samples collected during the dry season of 2022, this study characterizes the Xin'an River Basin's groundwater as predominantly HCO₃-Ca type freshwater formed mainly by rock weathering with minor influences from cation exchange and human activities, and identifies atmospheric precipitation as the primary recharge source.
High-resolution mercury isotope data from the US Mid-Atlantic Shelf reveal that the onset of the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum was accompanied by a massive release of mercury from terrestrial reservoirs, providing independent evidence that the oxidation of terrestrial organic carbon contributed significantly to the event's hyperwarming.
This study develops and validates a novel, objective framework integrating the Livelihood Vulnerability Index, CRITIC-Entropy weighting, and the Coupling Coordination Degree model to quantify climate vulnerability-adaptive capacity interactions among Indonesian rice-farming households, revealing distinct coordination patterns across agroecological typologies and gender groups.
This paper introduces Carbon Calculus™, a novel decision-making framework that applies time-value principles to carbon emissions, offering metrics like Net Present Value of CO2 to quantify the opportunity cost of delayed action and demonstrate that early, permanent decarbonization is significantly more effective than later or temporary measures.
By integrating thermo-kinetic simulations with microstructural observations of the Beauvoir granite, this study reveals that the pluton assembled from 18 magma sheets and solidified within approximately 10,000 years, demonstrating that rapid cooling and undercooling significantly influenced its textural maturation and providing a new framework for reconstructing granitic magma storage histories.
By integrating multi-hazard climate data into a novel stress test model, this study reveals that climate-driven port failures, which concentrate in Asia and Europe and often escape traditional centrality-based detection, pose a far more severe threat to global shipping network efficiency than previously understood.
This study integrates fluid inclusion analysis and basin modeling to identify two distinct hydrocarbon accumulation stages (47–33 Ma and 29–19 Ma) in the Paleogene clastic reservoirs of the Gaoyou Sag, revealing spatial variations in charging timing and providing critical insights for future exploration in this rift basin.