2353 papers
This study utilizes Sentinel-5P satellite data and GIS to analyze the spatiotemporal dynamics of NO2 and SO2 across Sri Lanka from 2019 to 2024, revealing distinct urban and industrial pollution hotspots, significant seasonal monsoon influences, and a marked reduction in emissions during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown to inform national air quality management.
This study on tropical forests in the Western Ghats reveals that tree microhabitats, which are crucial for biodiversity, are predominantly hosted by large, unhealthy, and dead trees, suggesting that forest management must preserve these "hazard" trees alongside healthy ones to maintain structural diversity.
A 2024–2025 study of Poland's border with Belarus reveals that the militarized infrastructure and associated disturbances have significantly increased the establishment of non-forest plant species, including invasives, in the Białowieża Forest, creating a critical invasion front that threatens the long-term ecological integrity of this UNESCO World Heritage Site.
This study projects future drought conditions in Ethiopia's East Borena Zone under CMIP6 scenarios using the Standardized Precipitation Index, finding a dominance of near-normal precipitation events but cautioning that rising temperatures may still exacerbate drought risks through increased evaporation, necessitating a comprehensive assessment beyond precipitation alone.
This study employs a mixed-methods approach to reveal that while stakeholders in Lagos State, Nigeria, demonstrate high willingness to adopt circular economy practices for food waste management, actual adoption is significantly hindered by financial constraints, inadequate infrastructure, and institutional fragmentation, necessitating a strategic shift toward phased source separation, green finance, and inclusive policy support.
This study reconstructs the history of torrential floods in the Chaudière River watershed (1900–2023) and evaluates sub-watershed susceptibility using morphometric, land-use, and historical data to establish a regional screening framework for identifying catchments requiring detailed investigation, rather than providing a predictive risk assessment.
This study introduces a Governance-related Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (GMVI) to analyze Central Asian countries from 2002 to 2024, finding that lagged governance-related vulnerabilities, particularly those driven by seasonal hydropower-irrigation trade-offs, significantly negatively correlate with water-energy-food sustainability performance.
Using a quasi-natural experiment on 213 Chinese cities, this study demonstrates that local government environmental targets significantly drive synergistic reductions in air pollution and carbon emissions through technological innovation, industrial upgrading, green finance, and energy efficiency, while generating positive regional spillovers and varying in effectiveness based on city characteristics.
This study utilizes correlative SEM–Raman microscopy to demonstrate that while replacing crumb rubber with olive-stone infill in indoor artificial turf alters the composition of airborne particles by introducing bioaerosols and increasing particulate matter concentrations, it does not eliminate inhalation exposure, thereby highlighting the need for comprehensive chemical and biological characterization of sustainable materials.
This study integrates geochemical analysis and 1D basin modeling to demonstrate that the organically rich, gas-prone Afowo Shale in the Dahomey Basin is currently thermally immature at shallow depths, indicating that its commercial hydrocarbon potential remains untapped and suggesting that future exploration should target deeper structural levels where thermal maturity is sufficient for gas generation.