2416 papers
This study demonstrates that the Lapite dumpsite in Ibadan, Nigeria, has significantly contaminated local soil and groundwater with toxic heavy metals through leaching, with metal concentrations in well water exceeding WHO guidelines and showing a marked increase over a ten-year period.
This study utilizes multi-source satellite data to reveal a significant declining trend in spring longwave cloud radiative effect over Iraq from 2001 to 2024, attributing the spatial variability and temporal changes to orographic cloud enhancement, upper-level dynamical troughs, and local moisture sources while highlighting discrepancies with reanalysis models.
This study introduces UHIQ, an interactive and explainable framework that integrates physics-informed regression with XGBoost to predict urban heat island intensity, offering researchers and policymakers a transparent tool for analyzing environmental drivers and evaluating heat mitigation strategies.
This study evaluates the groundwater quality in the F'kirina region of northeastern Algeria using physicochemical data from 2018–2021, revealing that most sampled boreholes are unsuitable for direct consumption due to elevated turbidity and hardness, as determined by a "poor" Groundwater Quality Index classification and Principal Component Analysis identifying mineralization and turbidity as dominant factors.
This study demonstrates that climate change literacy significantly drives adaptation among Africa's most vulnerable populations, particularly when combined with exposure to harmful climate trends, despite a concerning recent decline in literacy levels across the continent.
This study of Ruam Thai Village in Thailand reveals that the financial and social costs of human-elephant coexistence are unevenly distributed, trapping farmers in a "mitigation treadmill" where escalating defensive investments fail to prevent economic losses, thereby highlighting the urgent need for coordinated, community-led strategies to address these inequities.
This study investigates the spatial enrichment patterns and source apportionment of 12 trace elements in Xinxiang, China, revealing that while natural sources dominate overall soil composition, industrial activities and traffic are the primary anthropogenic drivers of cadmium and other heavy metal pollution along the urban-rural gradient.
This paper proposes and validates a midnight mean correction method based on weighted least squares to eliminate high-frequency external field factors (Δ) that persist during nighttime, thereby significantly improving the accuracy of geomagnetic secular variation calculations derived from Chinese mainland observatory and repeat station data.
This study projects that climate change will increase dengue risk in Guangzhou by extending the transmission season and shortening the critical response window for controlling outbreaks due to a temperature-driven reduction in the virus's extrinsic incubation period.
This study analyzes a decade of volcano-tectonic seismicity at Villarrica Volcano to reveal distinct swarm evolution patterns and spatial stress variations that link shallow magmatic pressurization to delayed explosive activity, thereby providing a multiparametric framework for understanding the volcano's internal dynamics and improving hazard assessment.