📄 earth_science

Water Resource Conflict and Management Challenges in Post-Conflict Tribal Agricultural Communities: A Case Study of Waziristan, Pakistan

This study examines how post-conflict displacement and administrative changes in Waziristan have disrupted traditional water governance and infrastructure, leading to intensified resource conflicts, and proposes a hybrid framework integrating customary practices with state institutions to restore agricultural water security.

Junaid Burki, Ruba Zia2026-07-06
📄 earth_science

Estimating Above-Ground Blue Carbon in a Tropical Mangrove Using Multispectral Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery

This study develops a new multispectral drone-based segmentation methodology to estimate above-ground blue carbon in the anthropogenically pressured mangroves of Suape Bay, Brazil, revealing a storage capacity of 79.8 MgC.ha⁻¹ that varies spatially from estuarine channels to hypersaline flats.

Francisco Cordeiro Nascimento-Neto, Roberto Lima Barcellos, Marília Cunha-Lignon, Priscila Almeida Oliveira, Luís Améric (…)2026-07-06
📄 earth_science

Reduced global atmospheric microplastic emissions from size-harmonized observations

By harmonizing observational and modeled microplastic particle size distributions, this study revises global atmospheric microplastic emissions downward to approximately 12 Gg yr⁻¹, revealing a 27-fold reduction from previous estimates and bridging the gap between top-down and bottom-up assessments.

Ian Hough, Helene Angot, Ruth Price, Nela Dobiasova, Théo Segur, Erfan Jahangir, Lucas Bastien, Yanxu Zhang, Didier Vois (…)2026-07-06
📄 earth_science

Seismic intensity and potential damage generated by the 7.5 MW earthquake of March 20, 2012 in Mexico

This paper analyzes the 2012 Mw 7.5 Mexico earthquake to demonstrate that despite its high magnitude, the event caused only minor damage compared to the 1985 earthquake due to lower peak ground acceleration, shorter duration, and less destructive frequency content, thereby highlighting the critical importance of evaluating comprehensive seismic parameters beyond just magnitude for accurate risk assessment.

Elí Daniel Almanza Arévalo2026-07-06
📄 earth_science

Integrating Climate Resilience into the Environmental Pillar of ESG at the Corporate Level

This study addresses the lack of standardized metrics for corporate climate resilience within ESG frameworks by analyzing existing indicators and proposing a new, structured set of metrics across physical exposure, adaptive capacity, and recovery potential to enhance transparency and long-term preparedness.

Judit Pécsinger, Andrea Koós, Viktória Igari-Péteri, Edina Baraté, Dániel Erdélyi2026-07-06
📄 earth_science

Detecting regional deep-ocean steric changes remains challenging with sea level budget analyses

This study evaluates the use of satellite altimetry, gravimetry, and Argo data to infer deep-ocean steric changes as a residual in sea level budgets, finding that robust regional detection remains challenging due to the method's lack of validation against long-term observations and the dominance of non-oceanographic gravity signals in certain regions like the Northeast Atlantic.

Yang Zhang, Xinfeng Liang, Don Chambers, Igor Yashayaev2026-07-06✓ Author reviewed