2520 papers
By incorporating actively melting, kilometer-scale grounding zones into a calibrated ice-sheet model, researchers demonstrate that Thwaites Glacier's retreat is driven by these previously neglected processes, potentially doubling its projected sea-level contribution by 2100 compared to earlier estimates.
This paper presents an interpretable, uncertainty-aware machine-learning framework that integrates climate projections and socio-environmental data to forecast the northward expansion of *Aedes* mosquito habitats and the resulting increase in arboviral disease risk across the Middle East under various climate change scenarios.
This study demonstrates that spiritual ecology, as practiced by ISKCON devotees in Mayapur, India, serves as a comprehensive and inclusive paradigm for holistic environmental conservation by integrating daily spiritual rituals with ethical values and scientific methods to promote sustainability.
This study integrates geophysical surveys and reactive transport modeling to characterize fracture-controlled permeability and mineral distribution in pegmatitic systems, demonstrating how structural heterogeneity facilitates efficient and environmentally responsible rare earth element recovery.
This study demonstrates that the environmental sustainability of home dialysis is critically dependent on spatial factors, revealing that shipping packaged fluids can increase the carbon footprint of home peritoneal dialysis compared to in-center treatment, thereby highlighting local manufacturing as a key strategy for achieving truly sustainable healthcare.
This study utilizes city-level panel data from western China to demonstrate that tourism resilience exhibits significant threshold dependence and regional differentiation, where the impact of climate risk on tourism performance is nonlinearly moderated by economic development levels and adaptive capacity, necessitating place-specific governance strategies.
This study reveals a pronounced hemispheric asymmetry in polar ocean carbon regulation, demonstrating that the Southern Ocean is primarily driven by biological and wind-induced processes while the Arctic is dominated by thermodynamic and freshwater stratification, resulting in opposing long-term trends in surface pCO₂.
This study proposes the Jointly Distributed Random Variables (JDRV) method as a computationally efficient and accurate analytical solution for the seismic reliability analysis of triangular rock wedge slopes, demonstrating that treating all geotechnical and geometric parameters as stochastic variables yields more conservative failure probabilities and identifying the sliding surface friction angle as the most critical sensitivity factor.
This study reveals that the greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing AI hardware can rival or even exceed those from AI data center operations, highlighting the critical need to account for hardware production and corporate decarbonization efforts when assessing AI's total climate footprint.
Using the LandscapeDNDC model, this study reveals that the 2018 drought caused a significant, persistent reduction in Germany's forest carbon sink strength with spatially heterogeneous impacts, while also demonstrating that uncertainties in climate forcing data (specifically between E-OBS and ERA5) critically alter simulated carbon flux estimates by influencing evaporation, transpiration, and respiration rates.