2485 papers
This study reveals that hydrological gradients drive significant spatial heterogeneity in iron-bound organic carbon across a plateau wetland-grassland-forest continuum, with wetlands acting as accumulation hotspots regulated primarily by soil water content and lateral carbon inputs from adjacent grasslands.
This study demonstrates that moderate doses of aged leaf biomass optimize PAH bioremediation by preserving microbial physiological integrity rather than simply increasing biomass, a mechanism revealed through the integration of kinetic modeling, imaging flow cytometry, and machine learning.
This study utilizes a 71-year Promax-rotated PCA of validated ERA5 data to reveal that December–February precipitation variability in North Kalimantan is governed by a hierarchical forcing architecture where nearly half the variance stems from autonomous local mechanisms, such as Sulawesi Sea warming and orographic triggering, which operate independently of global teleconnections and exhibit distinct decadal regime shifts and non-linear evolutionary trajectories compared to ENSO-driven patterns.
This study elucidates the hydrochemical characteristics and water transformation pathways in Lake Chagan, revealing a complex cycle where precipitation infiltrates and interacts with rocks in shallow groundwater before undergoing evaporative concentration and ion exchange in the lake, ultimately contributing to river water through a process that decouples isotopic evaporation signals from baseflow-dominated hydrochemistry.
This study reveals that hydropower expansion in the Sangue River Basin of the southern Amazon is superimposed upon an already heavily transformed landscape, compounding cumulative socio-environmental pressures on Indigenous Lands and underscoring the critical need for basin-scale planning that accounts for historical land-use change rather than evaluating projects in isolation.
This study reveals that extreme monsoon rainfall intensification at the Eastern Himalayan margin is primarily driven by dynamic and non-thermodynamic processes rather than local thermodynamic scaling, highlighting the critical need to improve climate model representations of atmospheric circulation and topography to accurately project future rainfall extremes.
This study of 40 Sub-Saharan African countries from 2000 to 2024 confirms an inverted-U-shaped Environmental Kuznets Curve and finds that while green technology directly reduces material footprint, strengthening institutional quality is more critical than technology alone for mitigating ecological footprint by moderating energy intensity.
By integrating year-round Argo float data with satellite-derived polynya extent and atmospheric observations from 2021 to 2024, this study reveals that Antarctic Bottom Water formation in the Ross Sea is driven not just by polynya size and wind forcing, but by a seasonal decoupling where early-season openings efficiently accumulate salt while later efficiency declines, highlighting the critical interplay between atmospheric conditions and upper-ocean thermohaline structure.
This study investigates the seasonal hydrogeochemical controls on high fluoride groundwater in Eastern Uttar Pradesh's Gangetic floodplain and employs deterministic and probabilistic risk assessments to reveal that infants face the highest non-carcinogenic health risks, driven primarily by fluoride concentration and ingestion rates.
This study quantifies persistent (PAHs, PCBs) and emerging (nano-microplastics) pollutants in Galveston Bay oysters and fish, revealing that nano-microplastics exhibit body-burdens orders of magnitude higher than legacy contaminants, with oysters accumulating the highest concentrations and serving as a significant vector for human exposure.