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Government Environmental Attention, Environmental Regulation, and Quality-Oriented Development in China's Coastal Cities

Using panel data from 51 Chinese coastal cities (2006–2020), this study demonstrates that government environmental attention, the low-carbon city pilot, and the Bay Chief System significantly enhance quality-oriented development through industrial upgrading and talent concentration, with evidence of policy complementarity and positive spatial spillovers from government attention and low-carbon initiatives.

Sheng Gao, Xingyi Xing, Yutong Shao, Sirun Chen, Xinran Huang2026-09-10

📄 earth science

Fire resilience in a Mediterranean cultural landscape

This study finds that while historical agricultural terraces in Mediterranean landscapes have limited influence on post-fire resistance and recovery of *Pinus halepensis* forests, a resilience framework reveals that nearly 40% of burned plots are at risk of transitioning to persistent shrubland, highlighting the need for early monitoring and targeted management.

Alicia Azpeleta2026-09-10

📄 earth science

Optimization of Infill Well Placement in Clastic Reservoirs of Toma South Oilfield

This study optimizes infill well placement in the Toma South Oilfield's clastic reservoirs by utilizing integrated reservoir simulation and economic analysis to demonstrate that drilling six horizontal wells, combined with ESP optimization, maximizes oil recovery by 4.8% and delivers the highest economic return compared to vertical or directional alternatives.

By J. JUNIOR RIER MAYEK RIER2026-09-10

📄 earth science

Increasing coldward shift of karst vegetation carbon sink driven by climate warming

This study confirms that climate warming drives a spatial reorganization of karst vegetation carbon sinks, shifting their growth advantage from warmer to colder zones across elevational, slope-aspect, and surface–subsurface dimensions, a process primarily dominated by moisture conditions and modulated by soil CO₂ partial pressure.

Heng Wei, Luhua Wu, Xiaoyong Bai, Yue Li, Lusha Xiong, Dan Chen, Dongni Yang, Jinju Du, Yuanyuan Xia2026-09-10

📄 earth science

Sediment bypassing limits future subdelta growth in backstepping Lower Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana, USA

Using 2025 mass-balance sediment budgets and 7Be tracers, this study reveals that despite hydrologic backstepping and multiple river passes, oceanographic conditions and southwestward sediment advection create a bypass zone that limits fine-grained sediment deposition and prevents future progradation of the Lower Mississippi River Delta.

Faith Walton, Samuel Bentley, Yanda Ou, Z. George Xue, Giancarlo Portocarrero Cortez, Emily Wei, Muhamad Farid Geonova (…)2026-09-10

📄 earth science

Comparative Evaluation of Catchment Prioritization Using SYI and RUSLE Models: A Case Study of the Swarna Reservoir Catchment

This study evaluates and validates the effectiveness of the Sediment Yield Index (SYI) method against the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) model for prioritizing soil erosion in the Swarna reservoir catchment, finding that RUSLE results using Indian-specific rainfall formulas closely align with SYI classifications to identify critical erosion areas.

K V Sumith2026-09-10

📄 earth science

Global transfers of forest-based carbon units

This study presents a comprehensive global accounting of forest-based carbon projects, revealing that cross-border transfers are predominantly driven by purchases from high-governance Global North nations funding projects in low-governance Global South countries, thereby highlighting critical transparency gaps and the risk of entrenching global inequities while calling for a unified public database to track these flows.

Brooke Williams, Zoë Lieb, Yiwen Zeng, Zhimen Chen, Matthew Luskin, Tao Chen, Jonathan Rhodes2026-09-10

📄 earth science

Fragility and ambiguity in design floods

This paper argues that the conventional practice of using fixed, spatially homogeneous "design floods" is fundamentally flawed due to statistical fragility following extreme events and mathematical ambiguity at river confluences, proposing instead a shift toward methods that explicitly account for uncertainty, tributary dependencies, and historical scenarios.

Julien Lerat, Jai Vaze2026-09-10

📄 earth science

Geomechanical Implications for Enhanced Oil Recovery Performance and Associated Risks: An Integrative Review

This systematic review synthesizes fundamental geomechanical principles and advanced modeling techniques to demonstrate how understanding fluid-rock interactions, fault behavior, and induced risks is essential for optimizing Enhanced Oil Recovery performance and ensuring structural stability.

Asena Golmoradi, Seyyed Shahab Tabatabaee Moradi2026-09-10

📄 earth science

Fifteen Shades of Green: Reassessing the Origin of Green Staining in Archaeological Cremation Burials

This study challenges the conventional interpretation of green staining on cremated bones as solely evidence of copper-based pyre goods by demonstrating through SEM-EDS analysis that while some staining results from post-depositional copper contact, other diffuse green discolorations likely stem from unidentified chemical processes occurring during cremation.

Lukas Waltenberger, Nicole Mittermair, Michaela Fritzl, Hannah Skerjanz, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Mathias Mehofer2026-09-10

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