2385 papers
This study validates the La Valduerna region's centuries-old agricultural managed aquifer recharge (Ag-MAR) system, demonstrating through hydrogeological modeling that traditional infiltration channels (zayas) are a critical, cost-effective nature-based solution for overcoming natural recharge deficits and ensuring sustainable groundwater availability for irrigation.
This study demonstrates that while soil radionuclide levels and overall hazard indices at operating uranium sorption sites in Uzbekistan remain within international safety limits, the significantly elevated concentrations of radon, airborne aerosols, gamma radiation, and surface contamination in specific functional zones are directly attributable to technogenic uranium production processes rather than natural geological background.
This study reveals that deep-sea mercury records in the northwestern Mediterranean are decoupled from recent global emission trends due to two contrasting processes: delayed oceanic cycling that prolongs contamination signals in undisturbed areas, and bottom trawling that dilutes mercury levels through sediment resuspension in submarine canyons.
This study concludes that while treating domestic wastewater for maize fertigation does not significantly increase soil heavy metal contamination compared to control plots, the presence of systemic background pollution leads to unsafe metal levels in maize grains and poses significant non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic health risks, particularly for children.
This study utilizes a replicable geospatial framework and Space-Time Cube analysis of Tennessee counties to reveal increasing trends in heavy precipitation and property damages, particularly in Middle Tennessee, thereby providing critical evidence for improved hazard mitigation planning against intensifying hydrologic risks.
This study reveals a pronounced hemispheric asymmetry in ocean stratification under climate change, where the Tropical Ocean and Northern Hemisphere experience upper-layer compression that traps mechanical energy near the surface, while the subpolar Southern Ocean maintains a stable structure that allows intensified winds to fuel enhanced eddy kinetic energy.
This paper presents a layered system dynamics model that enhances conventional climate–health vulnerability assessments by explicitly incorporating health-system buffering and epidemiological modulation, demonstrating through Kenyan longitudinal data that this approach significantly improves the prediction of realized health impacts compared to traditional frameworks.
This study evaluates and calibrates dynamical and AI-based subseasonal models to demonstrate that persistent wet–cold compound extreme events over China are predictable up to 15–20 days, with the Central China type showing the highest skill driven by specific large-scale circulation patterns, while highlighting distinct performance strengths between the ECMWF and CMA-FENGSHUN systems across different lead times.
By combining the first monthly-resolved fossil coral records from the last deglaciation with climate model simulations, this study demonstrates that El Niño events were weaker and less frequent in colder climates, thereby validating model projections that extreme El Niño events will become more frequent as the planet warms.
This case study of Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka argues that rather than procuring new hardware, the most fiscally viable path to smart, resilient urban recovery lies in consolidating the country's existing fragmented rainfall monitoring infrastructure into a unified, geospatially indexed platform to better address the PDNA's identified gaps in linking real-time hazard data with post-disaster recovery planning.