2455 papers
By analyzing immediate foreshock–mainshock pairs in Japan, this study reveals that foreshocks exhibit reduced stress drops and spectral similarities to their mainshocks, supporting a "paused-rupture" model where both events represent successive phases of a single dynamic rupture process.
This study integrates Landsat-8 remote sensing and aeromagnetic data to characterize multi-scale structural lineaments and estimate basement depths in southwestern Nigeria, revealing a two-tier fracture architecture that identifies high-density corridors as optimal for groundwater exploration while distinguishing structurally competent zones suitable for civil engineering.
This study analyzes rainfall data from 1991 to 2020 in Ethiopia's South Gondar Zone and finds that while seasonal and annual rainfall exhibit high interannual variability with non-significant long-term trends, the dominant role of climatic fluctuations necessitates improved monitoring and forecasting to support agricultural planning and climate risk management.
This study characterizes the morphological evolution and hydro-sedimentary dynamics of Morocco's Moulay Bousselham lagoon, revealing that its clayey silt basin is shaped by wind and tide-driven currents that create distinct sediment transport patterns ranging from calm pelagic suspension in deeper waters to swift parabolic deposition near river and canal mouths.
This study presents a conceptual model demonstrating that feedbacks between climate-driven sediment flux and subduction zone friction create a bistable geodynamic system, where supercontinent assembly and Snowball Earth events can trigger transitions between "slow" and "fast" tectonic states, potentially explaining the climatic and tectonic characteristics of the mid-Proterozoic "Boring Billion."
This study presents a spatial planning framework for the Borneo pygmy elephant across the Malaysia-Indonesia border, revealing that over half of its critical habitat overlaps with active logging and oil palm concessions while identifying protected areas with low climate exposure as vital refugia for adaptive transboundary conservation.
Using a spectral fingerprinting method on long-term measurements from Alaska's North Slope, this study reveals that a positive surface longwave cloud feedback significantly amplifies Arctic warming, highlighting a fundamental asymmetry in cloud feedbacks between high and mid-latitudes that many climate models fail to capture.
Based on three years of measurements in the western Canadian Arctic, this study demonstrates that permafrost thaw slumps restructure downstream microbial communities by reducing diversity while creating a mosaic of redox habitats that integrates aerobic and anaerobic metabolisms, ultimately driving a regional reconfiguration of biogeochemical cycling.
This study develops a high-accuracy, hierarchical land-use/land-cover mapping framework using Sentinel-2 imagery and Random Forest classification to distinguish fine-scale water-dependent classes within the East Kolkata Wetlands, thereby enabling sustainable wastewater management, flood buffering, and encroachment control in this critical Ramsar site.
This meta-analysis of 585 cases reveals that while grazing generally negatively impacts grassland vegetation and soil quality, moderate grazing intensity optimizes ecosystem functions by maximizing soil and vegetation indicators, whereas high intensity leads to significant declines in biomass, nutrients, and soil health.