2416 papers
This paper estimates that large-scale land acquisitions for agriculture have affected a minimum of 177 to 250 million people globally since 2000, often encroaching on Indigenous and local communities' lands in densely populated areas, thereby challenging the notion that such deals target underutilized land.
This study reveals widespread contamination by suspected microplastics in the groundwater and sediments of tropical karst aquifers across Java Island, Indonesia, highlighting distinct distribution patterns between water and sediment samples and emphasizing the need for integrated monitoring and waste management in recharge areas.
This study of Sierra Leone's abattoir communities reveals that while residents accurately perceive environmental risks, the current complaint-driven regulatory system disproportionately serves the most vocal and exposed households, systematically excluding unaware and less vocal residents despite widespread facility deficiencies.
This study analyzes 26 years of MERRA-2 data across five African stations to reveal significant spatial and temporal climatic variability, characterized by rising temperatures, increasing rainfall in southern regions, and substantial inter-station differences that pose critical challenges for agriculture and resource management.
This study demonstrates that parameter uncertainty in mountain catchment flood modeling propagates non-linearly across storm intensities, where high-magnitude events shift hydrograph peaks and significantly widen absolute discharge uncertainty despite downstream attenuation, underscoring the necessity of stochastic frameworks for robust flood risk assessment.
This study integrates petrographic and palynological analyses of carbonate concretions from Brazil's Romualdo Formation to demonstrate their syngenetic-to-early-diagenetic formation via fluorapatite, carbonate, and pyrite precipitation, while revealing a palynological assemblage indicative of a warm, arid-to-semi-arid coastal–estuarine environment with strong marine influence during the late Early Cretaceous.
This systematic review of 23 studies on the northern Gulf of Mexico demonstrates that hurricane impacts on coastal ecosystems are inextricably linked to socio-economic vulnerabilities, necessitating adaptation strategies that integrate ecosystem protection with equitable policy responses.
This study proposes a novel urban form-based method for estimating city carbon sinks by integrating Local Climate Zone (LCZ) maps with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model, demonstrating that lower-intensity built environments (LCZ 5, 6, and 9) offer greater carbon sequestration potential while achieving high estimation accuracy despite sensitivity to LCZ map precision.
This study analyzes the complex trade-offs between the economic benefits and environmental risks of developing the Bandajuma–Gendema corridor of the Trans-African Highway in Sierra Leone, emphasizing the critical need for comprehensive impact assessments and robust institutional frameworks to ensure sustainable development outcomes.
This study documents widespread community perceptions of severe climate change impacts across the Indian Western Himalaya and highlights the critical role of traditional ecological knowledge in adaptation, underscoring the urgent need for policies that integrate indigenous insights to bolster regional resilience.