1372 papers
This paper demonstrates that assigning municipal landfill methane responsibility based on actual waste routing and facility-specific data, rather than default accounting conventions, reveals significant discrepancies in emission estimates and jurisdictional rankings, highlighting the critical need for explicit scope and provenance in greenhouse gas inventories.
This study integrates MFA, LCA, and TEA to evaluate Switzerland's PET management pathways, concluding that while maximizing mechanical recycling and expanding depolymerization offer the most cost-effective environmental benefits, technological improvements alone are insufficient to meet climate targets without a concurrent reduction in PET demand.
Although most physicochemical and heavy metal parameters of the Allah River in the Southern Philippines currently meet national standards, elevated levels of total suspended solids, phosphates, fecal coliform, and downstream chemical oxygen demand indicate emerging conservation concerns driven by agricultural and settlement activities, highlighting the urgent need for regular monitoring and improved watershed management within the Allah Valley Protected Landscape.
This study reveals that increased winter temperature variability enhances spring dust storm intensity through a cross-seasonal soil-memory effect that dries deeper soil layers, thereby resolving the paradox between long-term warming trends and intensified dust activity while enabling unprecedented seasonal predictions.
This study reveals that the July 2026 Gironde–Landes wildfires in France created an outdoor activity-restricting smoke footprint up to 149 times larger than the burned area, demonstrating that transported air pollution, rather than the fire perimeter itself, poses the primary constraint on human activity across a vast downwind region.
This study develops an integrated GIS-based framework to generate a spatially explicit Waste Risk Index for the Kolkata Metropolitan Area by synthesizing diverse environmental, ecological, and socio-economic factors, thereby enabling targeted risk mapping and evidence-based urban planning to address municipal solid waste challenges.
This study reveals that rapidly growing landfill methane emissions in sub-Saharan Africa could consume up to 4.5% of the remaining 1.5°C carbon budget by 2100, yet remain largely unaddressed in national climate commitments due to a critical lack of targets, misaligned financing, and a development paradox where improved waste collection without disposal alternatives may inadvertently increase measurable emissions without reducing them.
This paper presents a framework that leverages National Seismic Hazard Models to select representative earthquake scenarios for regional risk simulation, demonstrated through the identification of two specific scenarios for Wellington, New Zealand, and validated against hazard distributions and criteria of consistency, plausibility, and transparency.
This mixed-methods study on landfill operators in South Africa's Upper Vaal Catchment Area reveals that while many possess moderate experience and tertiary education, their competence is hindered by insufficient, short-duration training focused on operations rather than environmental compliance, highlighting an urgent need for structured, continuous capacity building to ensure sustainable waste management.
This study resolves the Karakoram Anomaly by demonstrating that diverging glacier mass balances across High Mountain Asia are driven by a multi-scale atmospheric coupling where synoptic teleconnections and local katabatic wind feedbacks induce summer cooling in western regions, which, when combined with precipitation regimes, explains 78% of the observed mass balance variance.