2416 papers
This study integrates multi-disciplinary geophysical and stratigraphic data to demonstrate that oceanic crust in the central Red Sea extends approximately 125 km from the Median Ridge Valley, indicating that complete separation between the Arabian and Nubian plates occurred during a prolonged spreading phase between 10 and 24 million years ago, thereby redefining the basin's evolutionary framework.
This study introduces the metrics of "Thermal Whiplash" and "Carbon Debt" to demonstrate how legacy heating-centric building codes create systemic climate maladaptation in mid-latitude office buildings, revealing that while residential archetypes retain modest savings, office buildings face severe energy penalties that can be fully mitigated through typology-specific, performance-based retrofit strategies like combining low-SHGC glazing with smart controls.
This study re-evaluates the mortality impacts of urban heat island mitigation in 49 US cities using precise observational data and Bayesian inference, finding that removing urban heat islands results in negligible net mortality changes—contradicting previous claims of significant net increases—and arguing for comprehensive climate policies that address both thermal extremes and broader urban health factors.
This study reveals that African dust outbreaks over Spain have significantly increased in frequency and persistence since 1940, a trend driven primarily by thermodynamic changes linked to global warming and secondarily by shifts in atmospheric circulation patterns that favor dust transport.
Despite four decades of wastewater input, the Beaver Dam Marsh in New Hampshire shows no increase in surface soil phosphorus saturation or storage capacity compared to reference wetlands, likely due to phosphorus sequestration by invasive *Phragmites australis* and environmental conditions that inhibit inorganic phosphorus complex formation, rendering the soil unable to retain additional phosphorus.
This study demonstrates that leaf litter decomposition in Cerrado tropical streams exhibits a non-linear, unimodal response to land use and stream health gradients, peaking at intermediate disturbance levels due to the interplay between nutrient-driven stimulation and biodiversity loss.
This study demonstrates that ATR-FTIR spectroscopy is a feasible, non-destructive method for screening Red-wattled Lapwing eggshells in Indore, India, for potential microplastic-associated contamination by detecting consistent aliphatic C–H signals alongside the dominant calcite framework.
This paper introduces a novel product-level Trade-LCA framework that leverages large language models and deterministic rules to map global HS6 trade flows to life-cycle emission factors, achieving high accuracy in embodied carbon accounting and revealing significant disparities in carbon intensity that sector-level averages fail to capture.
This study evaluates the perceived effectiveness of flood anticipatory strategies among 403 households in five Togo localities, finding that while most strategies are viewed as having low effectiveness, factors such as residence location, household head gender, income, construction materials, and warning reception significantly influence perceived success, thereby advocating for inclusive policies that strengthen endogenous adaptation measures.
This study evaluates the spatiotemporal evolution and sustainability mechanisms of urban human settlements in Northeast China's post-industrial regions from 2000 to 2023 using an SDG-based framework, revealing a steady overall improvement characterized by a "south-strong, north-weak" spatial pattern while identifying social security, economic development, and specific resource indicators as primary constraints to further coordination.