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earth_science

2353 papers

📄 earth science

Arsenic exposure near an abandoned gold mine, Loei Province, Thailand: a record-level probabilistic assessment with exposure-route screening and leakage audit

This study combines a household survey with extensive historical data and Monte Carlo modeling to demonstrate that while river water near Thailand's abandoned Tungkum mine poses extreme arsenic exposure risks, the actual threat to the local population is driven by daily contact rather than ingestion due to widespread bottled water use, highlighting the critical need for assessments to verify actual exposure routes and data integrity before interpreting hazard quotients.

Phrutthinun Surit, Showket Hasan2026-10-08
📄 earth science

Evaluating Multi-Dimensional Community Interventions on Forest Dependency in the First Addition to Manas National Park, Assam, India

This study demonstrates that a multi-dimensional intervention strategy combining micro-livelihood support, clean energy access, solar fencing, and polycentric governance successfully reduced forest resource extraction and dependency among communities surrounding the First Addition to Manas National Park in Assam, India, between 2019 and 2021.

Kaushik Deb, Sanatan Deka, Pratima Boro, Nazrul Islam, Hiranmoy Chetia, Rathin Barman2026-10-08
📄 earth science

Spatial and Seasonal Patterns of Plastic Debris, Physicochemical Conditions, Hydrobiological Components, and Plastisphere Composition in the Sahline Salt Marsh, Tunisia

This study characterizes the spatial and seasonal distribution of plastic debris and its associated plastisphere community in Tunisia's Sahline Salt Marsh, revealing significant correlations between specific plastic types, biotic components, and physicochemical gradients while emphasizing that these relationships represent associations rather than direct causal effects.

KHALIL TRIGUI, Fourat Akrout, Neji Aloui2026-10-08✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
📄 earth science

Invertebrate biomass and richness and shoreline length are key drivers of duck breeding success in boreal constructed wetlands

This study of Finnish constructed wetlands reveals that duck breeding success is primarily driven by high invertebrate biomass and species richness along with maximized shoreline length, while also highlighting the negative impacts of agricultural land on brood abundance and mammalian predators on specific species.

Markéta Nummi, Sonja Taralainen, Veli-Matti Väänänen, Andreas Lindén, Céline Arzel, Sari Holopainen2026-10-08
📄 earth science

Deep regolith evolution in an active temperate margin: the roles of uplift, topography and lithology

This study demonstrates that in the active temperate forearc of South-Central Chile, deep regolith evolution is driven by a hybrid model where transient landscape stabilization preserves inherited Pliocene weathering mantles while concurrent vertical infiltration drives deep chemical depletion, revealing that slowly eroding active margins can sustain exceptionally thick, highly weathered Critical Zones despite ongoing uplift.

P. Vergara, C. Marquardt, N. Bustos, S. Carretier, M.Y.H. Li, J. J. Braun, C. Arróspide, M.P. Rodríguez, T. Roquer, J. B (…)2026-10-08
📄 earth science

Evaluating Carbon Storage Responses to Land Use Change under Multi-Scenario Simulations: A GMOP–PLUS–InVEST Coupled Framework for Border Cities

This study employs a coupled GMOP–PLUS–InVEST framework to analyze carbon storage dynamics in Dandong, China, revealing a historical decline-then-recovery trend and demonstrating that a comprehensive development scenario offers the optimal balance between economic growth and ecological sustainability under future land-use projections.

Jian Zhou, Lin Luo, Guoyi Zhao, Chenxi Lu, Zhuoran Hu, Na Zhu, Yuping Yang, Jie Liu, Yuehui Jia2026-10-08
📄 earth science

Antibiotic Source Apportionment in Stream Sediments Using PMF with Combined Antibiotic and Heavy Metal(loid) Profiles

This study demonstrates that integrating heavy metal(loid) profiles with antibiotic data in Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) modeling significantly improves the accuracy and spatial coherence of source apportionment for antibiotics in stream sediments, thereby facilitating more effective pollution management.

Jinwook Kim, Youngkyu Hong, Hojin Jung, Jeongmin Lee, Sungchul Kim2026-10-08
📄 earth science

Probabilistic compound flood risk to critical infrastructure in a protected delta: loss concentration, sea-level rise, and tail-risk attribution

This study presents a probabilistic assessment of compound coastal–fluvial flood risks to 376 critical infrastructure assets in Canada's Fraser River delta, revealing that while statistical dependence between discharge and surge is minor, sea-level rise drastically increases average annual losses and shifts risk concentration to specific wastewater plants, with tail-risk primarily driven by marginal water-level severities exceeding protection freeboards.

Victor Cárdenas-Santiago2026-10-08
📄 earth science

Predicting when and where climate change becomes robustly detectable

This paper derives an analytical scaling law demonstrating that the recoverability of regional climate change signals depends solely on the signal-to-noise ratio and the number of independent realizations, thereby providing a quantitative framework to predict when and where forced climate responses become robustly detectable across both model ensembles and observations.

Ramdane Alkama, Jerome Ogee, Didier Swingedouw, Giovanni Forzieri, Herve Douville, Bertrand Dechame, Christine Delire, F (…)2026-10-08