493 papers
This study demonstrates that an integrated approach combining Landsat and SRTM remote sensing techniques with field investigations effectively maps lithological units, structural features, and alteration zones to identify potential sources for alluvial gold deposits within the Kapoeta area of South Sudan.
The 2024 unprecedented mass bleaching event in Okinawa Island caused severe, depth-dependent coral mortality and benthic shifts dominated by *Acropora* loss and algal proliferation, while fish community responses remained largely stable in the short term with declines limited to obligate corallivores.
This study presents a spatial framework for the Rio Doce watershed demonstrating that climate change will disproportionately reduce suitable habitats for native bees, with future climatically vulnerable areas increasingly overlapping with zones degraded by mining tailings, thereby necessitating targeted conservation and restoration efforts.
This study utilizes hydrous pyrolysis experiments to demonstrate that indigenous organic acids generated during thermal maturation in the Qaidam Basin drive a three-stage evolution of calcareous mudstone dissolution, which sequentially establishes a pore network, enhances porosity and permeability, and ultimately reorganizes reservoir space to favor long-term hydrocarbon preservation.
This study develops an integrated framework combining Random Forest, PLUS, and SWAT models to quantify the spatiotemporal coupling effects of shrinkage development policies and climate change on surface runoff, revealing that while ecological conservation policies help mitigate risks, climate change exerts a significantly stronger influence on runoff than land-use regulation alone.
This study proposes a diagnostic framework that separates rainfall occurrence and severity to reveal that while event frequency is consistently driven by atmospheric moisture transport across India, exceedance magnitude follows highly localized, regime-dependent patterns, thereby improving the physical interpretability and accuracy of nonstationary risk assessment models.
This study reveals that over 1.76 billion people globally, particularly those in rural areas dependent on nature, are already exposed to high levels of ecological novelty that diminishes ecosystem services, underscoring the urgent need to integrate these novel socio-ecological conditions into future conservation and sustainability planning.
Using tree canopy data from Greater Sydney, this study demonstrates that distinct justice principles create spatial commitments leading to adaptation lock-in, which shifts the primary policy challenge from equitable resource allocation to governing the procedural rules of decision sequencing over time.
This study demonstrates that salinity acts as a critical environmental filter in arid and semi-arid inland waters by reducing dissolved organic carbon availability and suppressing methanogenic microbial communities, thereby significantly constraining methane emissions.
This study identifies synoptic-scale meteorological drivers, specifically strengthened low-to-mid-level winds, a surface pressure deficit, and a dominant Libya/North Africa transport pathway, as the primary controls on severe aerosol episodes over Cairo, distinguishing them from local boundary-layer effects.