2485 papers
This study evaluates the hybrid wind–wave energy potential along the Oman Sea coastline using 30 years of ERA5 data and a novel Wave Energy Concentration Index (WECI) to identify four optimal sites for sustainable offshore energy development in the Middle East.
This paper addresses the limitations of conventional pore-pressure prediction methods in the heterogeneous Central Sichuan area by modifying the Fillippone method to achieve higher accuracy in deep carbonate formations, thereby effectively supporting rapid and efficient drilling operations.
The deep Red Sea serves as a unique, unexploited natural analogue for predicting future mesopelagic community restructuring under sustained ocean warming, as its current stable high temperatures and depth conditions mirror global deep-ocean scenarios projected for the 22nd century.
India's 2026 LPG crisis, triggered by geopolitical energy shocks, forced reverse migration to rural Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh, where unaffordable fuel costs drove households back to solid-fuel combustion, significantly increasing local aerosol pollution and exposing a critical structural vulnerability in the nation's clean-cooking transition that prioritizes access over supply security.
This study reveals that the post-glacial recovery following the Late Ordovician Hirnantian glaciation was marked by seven millennial-scale cold–warm cycles driven by episodic ice-sheet discharge, demonstrating that such climate instability is a fundamental feature of Earth's history that significantly influenced early biotic recovery patterns.
This study analyzes temperature and velocity data from Australian moorings to establish a power-law relationship between upper-ocean stratification and baroclinic wave energy that holds for specific depth and temperature difference thresholds, offering a cost-effective method to predict internal wave energy fields and mixing potential.
This study utilizes PHREEQC 3.0 geochemical modeling to demonstrate that the reduced porphyry mineralization in the central Börzsöny Mountains resulted from multiple fluid pulses characterized by fluctuating temperature, redox conditions, and sulfur fugacity, which successfully constrained the observed paragenetic sequence of sulfide precipitation and alteration.
This study utilizes a participatory agent-based model in the Colombian Andes to demonstrate that strengthening institutional network connectivity is more effective for watershed sustainability and forest conservation than relying solely on formal land-use zoning, while also revealing that labor availability, rather than income or environmental values, primarily drives smallholders' willingness to participate in conservation.
This study demonstrates that parasitic helminths (specifically Trematoda and Cestoda) isolated from the Brushtooth lizardfish (*Saurida undosquamis*) along the Misurata coast of Libya serve as sensitive and reliable bioindicators for monitoring heavy metal pollution, particularly showing higher accumulation of toxic metals like Cadmium and Lead during the cold season.
By integrating SMAP satellite observations with soil property data, this study reveals that soil frequently remains unfrozen below 0°C due to salinity and matrix effects, demonstrating that current Earth system models' assumption of freezing at 0°C systematically underestimates permafrost thaw risks and associated carbon-climate feedbacks.