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Ting Peng, Caige Sun, Shanshan Feng, Yongdong Zhang and Fenglei Fan
The urban heat island effect caused by the rapid increase in urban anthropogenic heat has gradually become an important factor affecting the living environment of urban residents. Studying the temporal and spatial variation characteristics of urban anthr...
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Darren Thornbrugh, Dana Infante and Yinphan Tsang
The biodiversity of stream fishes is critically threatened globally, and a major factor leading to the loss of biodiversity is anthropogenic land use in stream catchments, which act as stressors to stream fishes. Declines in the biodiversity of stream fi...
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Wei Jiao, Yong Niu, Yuan Niu, Hengyu Hu and Ruiping Li
A better understanding of anthropogenic trace metal accumulation in farmland soils is crucial for local food safety and public health, especially for a rapidly industrializing region. In this study, soil samples at two depths were collected from a typica...
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Daniel Castro-López, Pablo Rodríguez-Lozano, Rebeca Arias-Real, Víctor Guerra-Cobián and Narcís Prat
The Earth?s freshwater ecosystems are currently under threat, particularly in developing countries. In Mexico, intensive land use and inadequate monitoring policies have resulted in the severe degradation of the country?s freshwater ecosystems. This stud...
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Yaru Guo, Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh and Yonghong Hao
Karst aquifers are prominent sources of water worldwide; they store large amounts of water and are known for their beautiful springs. However, extensive groundwater development and climate variation has resulted in a decline in the flow of most karst spr...
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Bangshuai Han, Moayad Yacoub, Aihua Li, Kirsten Nicholson, Joshua Gruver, Klaus Neumann and Subodh Sharma
Microplastic pollution is an emerging environmental concern, and has been found in remote regions, including the high Himalaya mountains. However, the abundance and sources of microplastics in the region are not well documented. This research investigate...
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Haidong Ou, Shirong Cai, Wei Fan, Junliang Qiu, Xiaolin Mu, Tao Zhou, Xiankun Yang and Lorenzo Picco
The Pearl River is one of China?s large rivers, the second-largest river and the fourth-longest river in China. Its unique geography, landform, and climate conditions create unique fluvial geomorphological processes. Affected by human activities and clim...
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Defang Lu, Yuejun Zheng, Xianghui Cao, Jiaojiao Guan, Wenpeng Li and Kifayatullah Khan
In recent decades, the water cycle process in the Loess Plateau has undergone drastic changes under the influence of anthropogenic disturbance and climate variability. The Loess Plateau has been greatly affected by human activities and climate change, an...
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Morag Hunter, D. H. Nimalika Perera, Eustace P. G. Barnes, Hugo V. Lepage, Elias Escobedo-Pacheco, Noorhayati Idros, David Arvidsson-Shukur, Peter J. Newton, Luis de los Santos Valladares, Patrick A. Byrne and Crispin H. W. Barnes
The expansion of copper mining on the hyper-arid pacific slope of Southern Peru has precipitated growing concern for scarce water resources in the region. Located in the headwaters of the Torata river, in the department of Moquegua, the Cuajone mine, own...
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Animesh Samanta, Ayan Chatterjee and Mritunjay Kumar Singh
A study using mathematical modeling has been conducted to analyze how both man-made and natural sources of contaminants affect various layers of an aquifer-aquitard system. The xy-, yz-, and zx-plane have been used to depict the locations where the natur...
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Abasiofiok M. Ibekwe, Amarachukwu C. Obayiuwana and Shelton E. Murinda
Different anthropogenic sources can have a significant influence on bacterial populations and their antimicrobial activities. In this study, the impact of anthropogenic activities on Enterococcus species was studied in an urban watershed in southern Cali...
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Jessica J. Sportelli, Kelly M. Heimann and Brittany L. Jones
Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) rely on frequency- and amplitude-modulated whistles to communicate, and noise exposure can inhibit the success of acoustic communication through masking or causing behavioral changes in the animal. At the US Navy ...
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Wei-Rung Chou, Po-Yu Wu and Tsung-Hsien Li
Data acquired from stranded sea turtles can provide awareness of human activities that adversely affect sea turtle populations. We assessed strandings of five sea turtle species between 2017 and 2021. This study utilizes principal component analysis (PCA...
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Anna Sabbatini, Francesca Caridi, Giovanni Birarda, Elisa Costanzi, Adolfo Amici, Giovanna Mobbili, Carla Buosi, Giovanni De Giudici, Daniela Medas and Alessandra Negri
The most often dispersed environmental pollutants that are released both directly and indirectly into the environment that may eventually reach aquatic ecosystems and contaminate aquatic biomes are cigarette butts (CBs). Toxicants such as nicotine, dange...
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Irina Makarova, Polina Buyvol, Eduard Mukhametdinov and Aleksey Boyko
The Arctic zone of the Russian Federation is of strategic importance for the country. Considering the fragility of Arctic ecosystems, special attention needs to be paid to the sustainable development of transport and related infrastructure within the fra...
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Weiying Li, Jingjing Zhang, Hongliang Li, Zezhou Wu, Xingju He, Lihua Ran, Martin G. Wiesner and Jianfang Chen
Time-series samples intercepted via three synchronized moored sediment traps, deployed at 1000 m, 2150 m, and 3200 m in the northern South China Sea (NSCS) during June 2009?May 2010, were analyzed to quantify the bioactive trace metal fluxes in sinking p...
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Giandomenico Foti, Giuseppe Barbaro, Giuseppina Chiara Barillà and Pierluigi Mancuso
An important process that began in many Mediterranean countries in the last century, after the end of the Second World War, concerns the displacement of a large part of the population from inland to coastal areas, expanding many existing cities and build...
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Rolf David Vogt, Petr Porcal, Josef Hejzlar, Ma. Cristina Paule-Mercado, Ståle Haaland, Cathrine Brecke Gundersen, Geir Inge Orderud and Bjørnar Eikebrokk
Increasing levels of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in watercourses in the northern hemisphere are mainly due to reduced acid rain, climate change, and changes in agricultural practices. However, their impacts vary in time and space. To predict how DOM r...
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Periyasamy Muthusamy, Balamurugan Paneerselvam, Shunmuga Priya Kaliyappan, Hussein Almohamad, Ali Abdullah Aldosari and Hazem Ghassan Abdo
The quality of groundwater plays an important role in human health, and it majorly influences the agricultural process in the southern part of India. The present study mainly focused on evaluating the quality of groundwater used for domestic purpose in s...
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Khrystyna Lipianina-Honcharenko, Carsten Wolff, Anatoliy Sachenko, Ivan Kit and Diana Zahorodnia
Anthropogenic disasters pose a challenge to management in the modern world. At the same time, it is important to have accurate and timely information to assess the level of danger and take appropriate measures to eliminate disasters. Therefore, the purpo...
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