2026 April - 37 articles
The Horn of Africa (Kenya, Djibouti, Uganda, Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Sudan) faces the highest rates of hunger and malnutrition in the world, exacerbated by conflict and adverse weather conditions. These factors have serious healt...
Microplastic (MP) contamination has become a widespread environmental concern in coastal and freshwater wetlands, ecosystems that play a crucial role in hydrological regulation, nutrient cycling, and biodiversity conservation. Despite their ecologica...
Ports are increasingly recognized as actors that influence the sustainability of urban environments due to their spatial footprint, operational intensity, and close interaction with surrounding cities. As digital technologies become more embedded in...
Urban districts along major rivers are undergoing rapid transformation, yet long-term evidence on how redevelopment reshapes land cover and vegetation structure remains limited in post-socialist cities. This study examines the spatio-temporal evoluti...
Mediterranean-type ecosystems (METs) occur on five continents and represent some of the most climatically constrained yet biologically rich regions on Earth. In these environments, legumes and their nitrogen-fixing rhizobial symbionts—including...
Hydrocarbon-contaminated sites are among the most common challenges for environmental professionals worldwide. Although bioremediation strategies have emerged, their efficiency in cleaning hydrocarbon-contaminated soil depends considerably on local c...
Mountainous Mediterranean rivers provide essential ecosystem services but are increasingly affected by land-use change, hydraulic works, and inadequate wastewater management. This study investigates the links between geomorphological transformation a...
The agricultural sector is undergoing a profound digital transformation driven by artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, remote sensing, robotics, blockchain, and edge computing, which are being integrated into crop monitoring, irrigation m...
The long-term sustainability of Australian agriculture is fundamentally constrained by the capacity, condition, availability, and governance of soil resources. Australian soils are among the oldest and most weathered globally, highly heterogeneous, a...
Climate variability and rising water scarcity are major challenges to agricultural sustainability, particularly in Mediterranean climates with high spatial heterogeneity. Agroclimatic zoning is a fundamental analytical tool for digital agriculture an...
Nocturnal urban heat presents significant but understudied risks within tropical megacities, where high humidity and heat storage in built-up areas prevent nighttime thermal recovery and intensify chronic heat stress. This study investigates the noct...
The spatial assessment of soil erosion drivers provides essential information for prioritizing soil conservation areas. This study aims to compare the performance of the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression model and the Geographically Weighted Re...
Accurate forecasting of local weather patterns is essential for climate resilience and sustainable planning. This study analysed 35 years (1990–2025) of hourly temperature and precipitation data from Thohoyandou, South Africa, to assess the imp...
This study evaluates long-term (2014–2023) and seasonal water quality in the Jerma River, a transboundary watershed between Serbia and Bulgaria, using annual mean physicochemical and microbiological parameters at two monitoring sites as well as...
The increasing frequency of disasters caused by landslides, mainly due to climate change leading to more intense extreme events, requires reliable predictive models for risk mitigation. Italy, in particular, is a country at high risk of landslides, b...
This study presents a comparative evaluation of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) within the traditional ceramic industry, emphasizing how differences in data structures, reporting formats, and background databases influence the interpretatio...
In response to land-use and land-cover (LULC) changes in South Africa, which have varied effects on biodiversity, several studies have characterized LULC changes using remote sensing data due to its cost-effectiveness, repetitiveness, spatial coverag...
This study presents the development of a Python-based flood-susceptibility risk-mapping tool, implemented in Jupyter Notebook, applied to Rwanda. A Flood Susceptibility Index (FSI) was developed by integrating 20 causal factors associated with flood...
Climate change significantly affects hydrological responses, yet studies addressing future water availability in the Paraopeba River Basin (PRB), an important tributary of the São Francisco River Basin in Brazil, remain limited, particularly u...
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 (S2) data are a crucial resource for urban policymakers in land-cover classification, offering a freely accessible alternative to expensive commercial data sources. While medium spatial resolution often limits the applicabil...
Urban transport is a major contributor to particulate matter (PM) pollution, yet information on the spatial distribution of fine and ultrafine particle fractions remains limited in medium-sized tropical cities. This study examines the spatial variabi...
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Agricultural carbon emissions, a key part of terrestrial carbon emissions, affect global carbon accounting, with historical data scarcity adding to calculation difficulty. Exploring agricultural planting structure evolution can supplement historical...
Monitoring surface water quality over large river systems remains challenging due to sparse in situ sampling and the need for decision-ready indicators. This study aims to address this problem by developing and evaluating an integrated Landsat 8-base...
Socio-ecological production landscapes (SEPLs) are places that support and are supported by biodiversity and that play important roles in maintaining biodiversity as well as providing the goods and services that society demands. SEPLs exist with, by...
The sugarcane industry in South Africa is ranked among the top 15 producers worldwide and plays a significant role in supporting the nation’s socioeconomic development, producing approximately 2.3 million tons annually. Harvesting is largely la...
Flood inundation mapping (FIM) is essential in disaster risk management, infrastructure planning, and climate adaptation. Traditional hydrodynamic models, such as the Hydrologic Engineering Center’s River Analysis System (HEC-RAS) and LISFLOOD-...
Assessment of landslide risk is crucial given the substantial related economic losses and infrastructure damage in mountain areas every year. Particularly, the Sagarmatha National Park (SNP), a key destination for Himalayan glacier tourism, remains r...
Southern Africa is highly sensitive to climate variability associated with the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which strongly influences hydroclimate, vegetation dynamics, and atmospheric composition. This study examined the impacts of th...
Accurate river discharge estimation is fundamental for water resource management under increasingly variable hydrological conditions. While conventional in situ techniques remain hydrometric reference standards, their operational deployment is constr...
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Increasing temperature and decreasing precipitation threaten the extent, persistence, and dynamics of snow across spatial scales, particularly ephemeral snow in Mediterranean mountain regions. This study estimates ephemeral snow cover and snow water...
Mountain ecosystems, strongly affected by climate-related variability and human impact, are degrading faster than other terrestrial ecosystems. Currently, the United Nations (UN) utilizes Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15: Life on Land (Target 15...
Air pollution remains a major public health and environmental challenge in China, driven by complex non-linear interactions among anthropogenic activities, meteorological conditions, and topographic features that go beyond simple linear relationships...
Urban flooding is prevalent in low-lying, coastal regions, where subtle topographic variation, shallow groundwater, and impervious surfaces govern inundation dynamics. This study evaluates urban flood susceptibility across Miami-Dade County by integr...
Reservoir management, flood control, and operational planning are the benefits of dam inflow forecasting. Decomposition algorithms can decompose complex inflow data into intrinsic components and reduce noise and fluctuations, while quantum machine le...
Remote sensing-based Earth observation provides essential spatial data for analyzing and monitoring both natural and urban environments. Precise characterization of objects in these scenes is vital for environmental management, land-use planning, and...
