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Majority of potable water microplastics are smaller than the 20 µm EU methodology limit for consumable water quality

Microplastic (MP) content in nutrition including potable water is unregulated, although MP concentrations in bottled water can diverge by several orders of magnitude. The EU Direc…

Theoretical infrared signature of OH defects in Fe3+, Cr3+ and Al3+-doped enstatite

The infrared spectroscopic properties of selected defects involving one proton and one nearby M3+ (M=Al, Cr, Fe) substitution in orthoenstatite are investigated by first- principl…

Taxon-specific hydrogen isotope signals in cultures and mesocosms facilitate ecosystem and hydroclimate reconstruction

Phytoplankton play a key role in biogeochemical cycles, impacting atmospheric and aquatic chemistry, food webs, and water quality. However, it remains challenging to reconstruct c…

Investigating the Dynamic History of a Promontory Ice Rise using Radar Data

Ice rises hold valuable records revealing the ice dynamics and climatic history of Antarctic coastal areas from the Last Glacial Maximum to today. This history is often reconstruc…

Multicomponent and multiphase CO2-brine system in microfluidic characterised in situ by Raman spectroscopy

Deep-saline aquifers could be instrumental in the geological storage of carbon dioxide due to their relatively good reservoir properties, high volume, and prevalence. However, the…

Global emergence of regional heatwave hotspots outpaces climate model projections

Multiple recent record shattering weather events raise questions about the adequacy of climate models to effectively predict and prepare for unprecedented climate impacts on human…

Do large earthquakes start with a precursory phase of slow slip?

In a recent publication, we showed that a stack of all GPS time series recorded before Magnitude ≥ 7.0 earthquakes suggests that large earthquakes start with a precursory phase of…

A myriad of melt inclusions: a 3D view into the volcanic time capsules of Colli Albani Volcano (Italy)

Melt inclusions are small parcels of magma trapped in crystals, which hold key information about pre-eruptive magmatic conditions including volatile content and melt chemistry. We…

Integrating Conversational AI Agents for Enhanced Water Quality Analytics: Development of a Novel Data Expert System

Despite advancements in environmental monitoring, the gap between data collection and user-friendly data interpretation remains a significant challenge, especially in the domain o…

Ensemble Kalman, Adaptive Gaussian Mixture, and Particle Flow Filters for Optimized Earthquake Forecasting

Probabilistic forecasts are regarded as the highest achievable goal when predicting earthquakes, but limited information on stress, strength, and governing parameters of the seism…

Mitigating marine plastic debris in Hong Kong: an action plan

The impact of marine debris ranges from ecological and social to economic, including ingestion by wildlife, loss of tourist potential and high costs of clean-ups and reallocation …

The State of Hydroinformatics Prior to Generative AI: Establishing a Quantitative Baseline (2018–2023)

The rapid advancement of web applications and machine learning has fundamentally reshaped hydrogeological sciences. While the recent emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) domi…

Linking petrographic and geochemical indicators of melt reactions in pelitic migmatites and leucogranites

Anatexis in orogenic systems has wide-reaching implications for the structure, mechanical strength, and later exhumation of the middle crust during orogeny. Previous studies of me…

Assessment of RCA4, CORDEX Africa domains RCMs Performance in Simulating Rainfall and Temperature: A case of Gilgal Gib…

Examining the spatiotemporal dynamics of meteorological variables in the context of changing climate, particularly in countries where rainfed agriculture, and hydropower project a…

STUDY OF THERMOLUMINESCENCE CHARACTERISTICS OF QUARTZ FOR HIGH RADIATION DOSES (>1KGY): IMPLICATIONS FOR EXTENDING THE…

Quartz is an omnipresent abundant natural mineral, used for luminescence dating. Lately, quartz optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) technique is widely used to estimate the eq…

Unique composition and evolutionary histories of large low velocity provinces

The two ``large low velocity provinces'' (LLVPs) are broad, low seismic wave speed anomalies in Earth's lower mantle beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean. Recent research suggests…

Future changes in seasonal drought in Australia

Climate change is expected to exacerbate the frequency and intensity of drought in many water-limited regions. However, future drought changes in Australia –the driest inhabited c…

Large indirect income impacts of tropical cyclones shaped by disaster response

Tropical cyclones (TCs) have direct economic impacts, destroying property and infrastructure. However, the sign and magnitude of their indirect impacts via longer-term changes in …

HarvestGRID: high-resolution harvested crop areas of the United States from 1981 to 2019

The United States is a major producer and exporter of agricultural goods, fulfilling global demands for food, fiber, and fuel while generating substantial economic benefits. Agric…

Ringing mountain ranges: Teleseismic signature of the interaction of high-frequency wavefields with near-source topogra…

Over the last decade there has been an international effort to find methods to recover and digitize recordings from historical earthquakes and explosions that occurred during the …

Local water year values for the conterminous United States

Quantifying and predicting precipitation and water flow and their influences is challenged by the dynamic relationships between and timing of precipitation and water fluxes. To he…

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Multimodal Large Language Models in Hydrological Applications

Large Language Models (LLMs) combined with visual foundation models have demonstrated remarkable advancements, achieving a level of intelligence comparable to human capabilities. …

Rising temperatures drive lower summer minimum flows across hydrologically diverse catchments in British Columbia

Excessively low stream flows harm ecosystems and societies, so two key goals of low-flow hydrology are to understand their drivers and to predict their severity and frequency. We …

Can We Reverse Global Warming?

Without mitigation, Climate Change is expected to costs large amounts of money, cause vast amounts of human suffering and death and threatens the survival of countless species. Ri…

Savings and Avoided Costs of Living Carbon Negative

In order to prevent the biodiversity losses anticipated under business-as-usual (BAU) conditions, and to prevent the associated enormous financial and human losses, the world has …

Randomization of the Earth's magnetic field driven by magnetic helicity

It is shown, using results of numerical simulations and geomagnetic observations, that the spatial and temporal randomization of the Earth's global and local magnetic fields is dr…

River Morphology Information System: A Web Cyberinfrastructure for Advancing River Morphology Research

The study and management of river systems are increasingly challenged by the complexity and volume of data required to understand and predict river morphology changes. The River M…

Predictable recovery rates in near-surface materials after earthquake damage

Earthquakes introduce transient mechanical damage in the subsurface, which causes postseismic hazards and can take years to recover. This observation has been linked to relaxation…

On the Origin of Holocene Sea-Level Transgressions in Formerly Glaciated Regions

Over glacial cycles, the growing and shrinking of ice sheets has caused relative sea level (RSL) to differ from global mean sea level (GMSL) due to glacial isostatic adjustment (G…

Application of the Image Processing Method and the Beer-Lambert Law for Assessing Sea Water Intrusion

This paper presents an innovative approach integrating the Image Processing Method and the Beer-Lambert Law to study Sea Water Intrusion in riverine systems. Using an experimental…

Spatial Patterns of Urban Heat Islands and Green Space Cooling Effects in the Urban Microclimate of Karachi

With rapid urbanization and the increasing threats of climate change, metropolitan cities like Karachi, Pakistan, are encountering greater challenges due to the Urban Heat Island …

Experimental evaluation of two-layer air bubble curtains to prevent seawater intrusion into rivers

The seawater intrusion (SWI) into rivers can lead to many negative consequences, especially on agricultural activities and live ecosystems in upstream areas of rivers. One solutio…

Impact Estimation and Product Classification under IMACS

The Impact Measurement and Conservation System (IMACS) was developed to calculate environmental and human condition impacts and to apply conservation required to neutralize such i…

Evolution and architecture of an overbank in an ocean-facing canyon-fill.

Submarine canyon-fills comprise substantial volumes of thin-bedded successions deposited by sediment gravity flows that are either stripped or overspill from adjacent channels int…

At the Sharp End of Fractured Granites: A Critical Geology for Critical Times

The geosciences have been positioned as integral to a ‘whole society’ transition that includes the decarbonisation of energy systems. Geothermal energy - which relies on a knowled…

Remote Sensing of Environmental Impacts for IMACS

The Impact Measurement and Conservation System (IMACS) was developed to calculate environmental and human condition impacts and to apply conservation required to neutralize such i…

A model of near-sea ice phytoplankton blooms

Arctic phytoplankton spring blooms have increased in magnitude and extent over the past two decades, particularly in waters near the sea ice edge. We develop an idealized model of…

The Overlooked Sub-Grid Air-Sea Flux in Climate Models

Understanding air-sea interaction is crucial for our ability to predict future states of the climate system, and to inform economic and societal decision-making. However, the repr…

Unveiling the bioleaching versatility of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans

Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, a Gram-negative bacterium thriving in extreme acidic conditions, has emerged as a key player in biomining and bioleaching technologies thanks to it…

Unconfined turbidity current interactions with oblique slopes: deflection, reflection and combined-flow behaviours

What is the nature of flow reflection, deflection and combined-flow behaviour when gravity flows interact with slopes? In turn, how do these flow dynamics control sedimentation on…

Land management controls on soil carbon fluxes in Asia’s largest tropical grassland

Land management changes threaten the ecological functionality of grassland ecosystems worldwide, including the ability of these ecosystems to store carbon in their soils. The Bann…

Bayesian Inversion with TimeOptMCMC

TimeOptMCMC (Meyers and Malinverno, 2018) is a Bayesian approach for evaluating cyclostratigraphic records that quantitatively links geologic data with astronomical theory. This m…

Mercury records from natural archives reveal ecosystem responses to changing atmospheric deposition

Global ecosystems face mercury contamination, yet long-term data is scarce, hindering understanding of ecosystem responses to atmospheric Hg input changes. To bridge data gap and …

Projection of spatially explicit land use scenarios for the São Francisco River Basin, Brazil

Future land use change in the São Francisco River Basin (SFRB) is critical to the future of regional climate and biodiversity, given the large heterogeneity among the four climate…

Global Warming is Industrially Suppressed Middle-School Science

The 15\% of the American public that denies global warming probably used middle-school science texts in which the topic was omitted at the behest of Big Oil. We attempt to remedy…

Archetypal flow regime change classes as signatures of anthropogenic drivers of global streamflow alterations

Streamflow – a key component of the water cycle – is experiencing drastic alteration due to human actions. While existing studies have widely assessed the global extent and degree…

Direct observations of transient weakening during phase transformations in quartz and olivine

Phase transformations are widely invoked as a source of rheological weakening during subduction, continental collision, mantle convection, and various other geodynamic phenomena. …

Ultramafic Melt Viscosity: A Model

A non-Arrhenian model for the Newtonian viscosity (η) of ultramafic melts is presented. The model predicts the viscosity of ultramafic melts as a function of temperature (T), pres…

Towards A Smart City Concept - Machine Learning Smarts for the Estimation of Future Temperature Rise in Tabuk City

In the Middle Eastern peninsula especially in Saudi Arabia, there is a varsity temperature variation among the individual regions. As far as the city of Tabuk is concerned, no stu…

Soil organic and inorganic carbon interactions under tillage and cover cropping determine potential for carbon accumula…

The global soil carbon pool comprises soil organic carbon (SOC), found in almost all soils, and soil inorganic carbon (SIC), in calcareous soils. Despite their agricultural signif…

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