2385 papers
This study reveals that the Kevitsa mine in northern Finland significantly alters reindeer habitat use by creating seasonal avoidance zones up to 1.9 km wide during summer, yet the broader herding district has maintained stable herd numbers through modern management practices like supplementary feeding that decouple herd size from natural pasture limitations.
This study demonstrates that the invasive shrub *Rhododendron ponticum* and the invasive tree *Prunus serotina* exert contrasting impacts on temperate forest soil carbon transformation by differentially altering micro-environmental conditions and litter quality, leading to organic matter accumulation in the former and enhanced microbial activity in the latter over time.
This study evaluates 35 CMIP6 models and finds that most underestimate the MJO's southward detour around the Maritime Continent due to insufficient background moisture gradients, highlighting the critical role of accurate moisture field representation in improving MJO simulations.
This study reveals that volcanic ash exerts a threshold-dependent influence on lacustrine organic matter production in the Jimsar Sag's Lucaogou Formation, where moderate ash content (20–40%) enhances productivity through nutrient release, while low (<20%) and high (>40%) contents have negligible or inhibitory effects, respectively.
This study proposes and theoretically validates a hydrodynamic-acoustic stimulation method using a flow-pulsation emitter to recover injectivity in uranium in-situ leaching wells by analyzing mechanisms such as particle mobilization and skin factor reduction across diverse geotechnological conditions.
This study demonstrates that while strong present-day Southern Ocean upwelling suggests the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is unlikely to undergo extreme weakening under moderate emissions, the global overturning circulation remains vulnerable to significant reorganization, including a potential reversal of Indo-Pacific overturning by 2100.
This study utilizes a fully coupled human-Earth system model to demonstrate that the global economy is transitioning from growth-reinforcing dynamics to climate-constrained trajectories, revealing that technological progress and natural adaptation alone are insufficient to offset climate damages without early, targeted policy interventions.
This study utilizes FTIR-ATR analysis of femoral bone from 51 individuals at the Fortress of Louisbourg to demonstrate that proximity to saltwater drainage significantly accelerates skeletal diagenesis, thereby providing a critical framework for prioritizing rescue excavations in coastal archaeological sites threatened by erosion.
This study integrates Sentinel-2 remote sensing and waterbird census data to demonstrate that variations in land-use and land-cover composition at Ghana's Densu Delta Ramsar Site are positively associated with specific waterbird community structures, highlighting the value of combining satellite-derived environmental data with biodiversity monitoring for wetland management.
This Life Cycle Assessment study demonstrates that converting coconut residue into biochar via pyrolysis is a more environmentally sustainable alternative to landfill disposal, as it significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions and fossil resource consumption by substituting activated carbon, diesel, and natural gas.