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Earth, Volume 6, Issue 1

2025 March - 17 articles

Cover Story: Discerning impacts of land cover conversion with soil carbon are crucial for boreal regions. Confronting limitations with conventional inferential approaches, this study adopted methods appropriate for smaller sample sizes subjected to skewed distributions with soil properties. A two-step inferential process was implemented. The Kruskal–Wallis (KW) test assessed dissimilarities within soil properties across cover types, followed by more refined analysis with generalized estimating equations (GEEs). For a boreal study region, the KW test substantiated median differences within soil properties, and GEEs corroborated mean differences in soil carbon between specific cover types. These significances yielded support with the selection of predictors relating to cover types for digital soil mapping.  View this paper
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Articles (17)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,292 Views
18 Pages

Assessing Potential Land and Soil for Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for United Nations (UN) Initiatives: An Example of the Contiguous United States of America (USA)

  • Elena A. Mikhailova,
  • Hamdi A. Zurqani,
  • Lili Lin,
  • Zhenbang Hao,
  • Christopher J. Post,
  • Mark A. Schlautman,
  • Gregory C. Post,
  • Lauren N. Landis,
  • Leah C. Roberts and
  • George B. Shepherd

18 March 2025

The concept of nature-based solutions (NBS) is widely promoted as an approach to effectively counteract climate change and land degradation (LD) as well as simultaneously add environmental and socio-economic benefits. To have a worldwide impact from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,612 Views
16 Pages

Impact of Climate Variability on Maize Yield Under Different Climate Change Scenarios in Southern India: A Panel Data Approach

  • Samiappan Senthilnathan,
  • David Benson,
  • Venkatraman Prasanna,
  • Tapas Mallick,
  • Anitha Thiyagarajan,
  • Mahendiran Ramasamy and
  • Senthilarasu Sundaram

11 March 2025

The changes in frequency and intensity of rainfall, variation in temperature, increasing extreme weather events, and rising greenhouse gas emissions can together have a varying impact on food grain production, which then leads to significant impacts...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,906 Views
31 Pages

A Python Framework for Crop Yield Estimation Using Sentinel-2 Satellite Data

  • Konstantinos Ntouros,
  • Konstantinos Papatheodorou,
  • Georgios Gkologkinas and
  • Vasileios Drimzakas-Papadopoulos

6 March 2025

Remote sensing technologies are essential for monitoring crop development and improving agricultural management. This study investigates the automation of Sentinel-2 satellite data processing to enhance wheat growth monitoring and provide actionable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,457 Views
21 Pages

Human Comfort and Environmental Sustainability Through Wetland Management: A Case Study of the Nawabganj Wetland, India

  • Kirti Avishek,
  • Pranav Dev Singh,
  • Abhrankash Kanungo,
  • Pankaj Kumar,
  • Shamik Chakraborty,
  • Suraj Kumar Singh,
  • Shruti Kanga,
  • Gowhar Meraj,
  • Bhartendu Sajan and
  • Saurabh Kumar Gupta

27 February 2025

Wetlands play a vital role in ecosystem sustainability by regulating atmospheric temperature and enhancing human comfort levels. This study aims to evaluate the temperature regulation function of the Nawabganj Wetland, Uttar Pradesh (India), a Ramsar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,506 Views
20 Pages

Relationship Between the Water Vapor Transport from the Amazon Basin and the Rainfall Regime over a Watershed on Brazil’s Southern Border

  • Maicon Moraes Santiago,
  • André Becker Nunes,
  • Flavio Tiago Couto,
  • Danielle de Almeida Bressiani,
  • Rose Ane Pereira de Freitas and
  • Iulli Pitone Cardoso

24 February 2025

The climate of the south of Brazil is characterized by northern winds in a hegemonic way for the transfer of moisture. Thus, the goal here is to verify the impact of the meridional water vapor transport on the rainfall of the Mirim–São G...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,395 Views
4 Pages

19 February 2025

A recent review of species distribution modelling (SDM) published in Earth contains much useful information. However, the introductory paragraphs lack basic information about the first SDM package called BIOCLIM, which became available in January 198...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,600 Views
21 Pages

13 February 2025

This study applies a systems analysis to further our understanding of the many pathways linking climate stress to human (im)mobility and interpersonal violence via natural resource stress within eight countries (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,861 Views
19 Pages

Exploring Habitat Quality Dynamics in an Equatorial Andean Basin Under Scenarios of Land Use Change

  • Lorena González,
  • Darío Xavier Zhiña,
  • Alex Avilés,
  • Ana Astudillo,
  • Ximena Peralta and
  • Teodoro Verdugo

12 February 2025

Globally, ecosystem services face significant degradation due to land use and land cover change (LULC) driven by human development. Despite numerous habitat quality assessments, comprehensive studies in high-mountain equatorial region basins remain s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,611 Views
22 Pages

Optimizing Air Pollution Forecasting Across Temporal Scales: A Case Study in Salamanca, Mexico

  • Francisco-Javier Moreno-Vazquez,
  • Felipe Trujillo-Romero and
  • Amanda Enriqueta Violante Gavira

9 February 2025

Air pollution forecasting is essential for understanding environmental patterns and mitigating health risks, especially in urban areas. This study investigates the forecasting of criterion pollutants—CO,O3,SO2,NO2,PM2.5, and PM10—across m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,099 Views
16 Pages

Enriching Earth Science Education with Direct and Proximal Remote Sensing of Soil Using a Mobile Geospatial Application

  • Elena A. Mikhailova,
  • Christopher J. Post,
  • Hamdi A. Zurqani,
  • Philip C. Hutton and
  • Davis G. Nelson

7 February 2025

Earth science education can be enriched by adding technological knowledge to enable monitoring human earth impacts by using soil science as an example. Modern sensing technologies and a mobile mapping platform can enhance an existing field laboratory...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,860 Views
26 Pages

Research Trends Concerning the Danube Delta: A Specific Social-Ecological System Facing Climate Uncertainty

  • Mircea-Iosif Rus,
  • Ionela Munteanu,
  • Natașa Vaidianu and
  • Kamer-Ainur Aivaz

31 January 2025

This study seeks to examine the development of scientific literature concerning the Danube Delta, an exceptional ecosystem characterized by its rich biodiversity, which is facing challenges from both climate change and human activities. It aims to id...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,298 Views
30 Pages

26 January 2025

The mountainous Samian Watershed hosts important rivers recently, significantly triggered by fast and unplanned urbanization, population growth, environmentally hazardous industrialization, and inappropriate dam construction. Nonetheless, this waters...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,655 Views
22 Pages

Causes of Changes in Mineralization of Underground Drinking Water in the Shaim Oil and Gas Region of the West Siberian Megabasin

  • Yulia Rusakova,
  • Andrey Plavnik,
  • Rimma Abdrashitova,
  • Yulia Salnikova,
  • Xiaopu Wang,
  • Mikhail Poluyanov and
  • Albert Zaliatdinov

24 January 2025

Mineralization of groundwater for drinking purposes is a complex parameter of groundwater chemical composition. In the Shaim oil- and gas-bearing area, as in the whole West Siberian megabasin, the main target horizon for solving the issues of domesti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,310 Views
24 Pages

24 January 2025

The current study is essential for obtaining an accurate representation of weather conditions in the Ziz and Guir watersheds, characterized by an arid climate. This study combined climate data from the ERA5 model with data from observation stations i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,687 Views
27 Pages

14 January 2025

Understanding the dynamic relationships between geoenvironmental factors and forest vegetation cover is crucial for effective forest management and planning. This study investigates the spatiotemporal dynamics of forest cover in the Duhok District in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,422 Views
22 Pages

Assessing Climate Change Impact on Rainfall Patterns in Northeastern India and Its Consequences on Water Resources and Rainfed Agriculture

  • Debasish Chakraborty,
  • Aniruddha Roy,
  • Nongmaithem Uttam Singh,
  • Saurav Saha,
  • Shaon Kumar Das,
  • Nilimesh Mridha,
  • Anjoo Yumnam,
  • Pampi Paul,
  • Chikkathimme Gowda and
  • Vinay Kumar Mishra
  • + 4 authors

9 January 2025

To understand the impact of climate change on water resources, this research investigates long-term rainfall trends and anomalies across Northeastern India (NEI), covering Assam and Meghalaya (A&M); Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Tripura (NMMT);...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,873 Views
21 Pages

Inferential Approach for Evaluating the Association Between Land Cover and Soil Carbon in Northern Ontario

  • Rory Pittman,
  • Baoxin Hu,
  • Tyler Pittman,
  • Kara L. Webster,
  • Jiali Shang and
  • Stephanie A. Nelson

1 January 2025

Resolving the status of soil carbon with land cover is critical for addressing the impacts of climate change arising from land cover conversion in boreal regions. However, many conventional inferential approaches inadequately gauge statistical signif...

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