2353 papers
This paper establishes that for Bahrain's fossil-dependent grid, waste-to-energy incineration only becomes a net climate benefit when grid carbon intensity exceeds 0.96 kg CO₂-eq/kWh, demonstrating that material-recovery pathways consistently outperform incineration and should form the core of an integrated municipal solid waste strategy.
This paper presents a new Bayesian parametric Ground-Motion Prediction Model for shallow crustal earthquakes in Europe that integrates regional path effects and a broader magnitude range to achieve superior predictive performance with reduced uncertainties compared to previous pan-European models.
This study presents the first multi-regional assessment of mercury, lead, arsenic, and cadmium contamination across eleven artisanal and small-scale gold mining sites in Ghana, revealing severe soil pollution and significant food-chain exposure risks while validating cost-effective field tools to inform national policy under the Minamata Convention.
This study provides robust evidence that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) has weakened by approximately 14% over the last 30 years, a change driven by a significant reduction in ocean heat loss in the northern Atlantic that is attributed to forced climate change.
This study integrates a 66-year Physiologically Equivalent Temperature (PET) climatology with the spatial distribution of major industrial sectors across Iran to reveal that most industrial facilities, particularly in mining, metal processing, and petroleum industries, are concentrated in regions experiencing strong to extreme heat stress, thereby establishing a scalable framework for assessing national occupational thermal vulnerability.
This study demonstrates the potential of using Sentinel-5P TROPOMI satellite data combined with SARIMA time-series models to forecast monthly NO₂ and SO₂ concentrations in five Sri Lankan districts, achieving high accuracy for NO₂ while highlighting the significant challenges in predicting irregular SO₂ levels and converting column density to ground-level concentrations.
This study examines the socio-economic vulnerabilities and waste management challenges faced by fishing families on Sebatik Island, concluding that sustainable coastal waste governance requires integrating poverty alleviation with community-based systems, economic diversification, capacity building, and cross-border collaboration.
This study utilizes mineral thermobarometry on deep borehole samples from Taiwan's Tatun Volcano Group to reconstruct a multi-tiered magmatic plumbing system, revealing a deepening and shrinking magma reservoir since the Pleistocene that, while currently stable, retains the potential for future low-explosivity effusive eruptions primed by a shallow hydrothermal system.
Using data from the 2022 Somalia Integrated Household Budget Survey, this study reveals that 17.25% of households switch their main drinking-water source between seasons, with significantly higher prevalence among nomadic and rural populations compared to urban residents, highlighting the need for water planning to account for these seasonal and geographic variations.
This study utilizes ambient noise seismic interferometry to reveal that the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake induced distinct, frequency-dependent seismic velocity decreases in the Northern Nagano and Mount Fuji regions, where volcanic areas showed broad susceptibility to dynamic stress while a localized anomaly near the Northern Nagano earthquake exhibited stronger frequency dependence, suggesting a contribution from subsequent triggered seismicity.