📄 earth_science

Community-led Design of Nature-based Solutions for Mangroves in Placencia, Belize

By integrating community knowledge with spatial modeling in Placencia, Belize, this study demonstrates that a collaborative framework for co-designing mangrove restoration and protection strategies effectively identifies priority areas that deliver significant, measurable ecological and socioeconomic benefits aligned with local and national conservation goals.

Natasha Maier Batista, Julian Olaya-Restrepo, Carlie Dario, Jessica Silver, Nadia Bood, Monique Vernon, Delcia McDougall (…)2026-07-03
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Twenty Years of Aerosol Optical Depth over Cairo, Egypt (2005–2025): A Comprehensive Climatology Using AERONET and MODIS Observations

This study presents the first unified 20-year (2005–2025) aerosol climatology for Cairo, Egypt, utilizing AERONET and MODIS data to reveal a statistically significant decreasing trend in aerosol optical depth while characterizing distinct seasonal regimes driven by Khamaseen dust and agricultural burning.

Michael Nagy Riad Kamel Abd AlMalk2026-07-03
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OTTER-NYC: A Minute-Scale Multimodal Dataset for Urban Flood Event Dynamics and Forecasting

This paper introduces OTTER-NYC, a high-quality, minute-scale multimodal dataset for New York City that integrates flood depth, precipitation, terrain, and drainage infrastructure data through a reproducible quality control pipeline to enable detailed analysis of urban flood dynamics and data-driven forecasting.

Seongwon Jin, Jiho Park, Juheon Kim, Jehong Bang, Seunghwan An, Jibum Kim2026-07-03
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Timing and cause of early Late Pleistocene megadrought in eastern Africa

Using sedimentary data from Lake Chala, researchers reconstructed climate evolution in eastern equatorial Africa to reveal that a unique convergence of high atmospheric moisture deficit and cool Arabian Sea temperatures caused a severe megadrought between 110 and 97 kyr ago, potentially triggering early modern human dispersal despite prevailing interglacial warming trends.

Verschuren D, Baxter AJ, Peterse F, Yin QZ, Van Daele M, Van der Meeren T, Wu ZP, Olago DO, Barker PA, Damste JSS2026-07-03