The impact of climate change on rainfall extremes has become increasingly pronounced in arid regions, where extreme events are projected to intensify and become more variable. Increasing meteorological variability challenges traditional approaches th...
Cartography spans millennia of human civilization. Maps helped humans to interpret and represent the world before even writing was developed. This review examines the evolution of cartographic knowledge from Prehistory to the Middle Ages. It focuses...
Arctic surface temperatures have increased much faster than the global mean, leading to Arctic amplification; the role of light-absorbing aerosols (LAAs; especially black carbon) in this amplification remains poorly constrained by observations. In th...
Mapping land cover helps with the management of environmental, agricultural and urban areas; however, it is challenging in semi-arid regions, where several classes have similar spectral responses. The research offers a combination of new SWIN with Se...
Developing up-to-date technologies for understanding crop development is essential for improving agricultural monitoring and reducing uncertainties in production estimates. This study presents a proof of concept for multi-platform, open-source tools...
Hydroclimatic variability and land-use and land-cover (LULC) change were investigated in the Ribeira de Iguape River Basin, Brazil, using precipitation records from 14 gauges and mean, maximum and minimum streamflow from 10 stations within 1960&ndash...
Land-use/land-cover (LULC) change affects the balance between settlements, agricultural land, and natural ecosystems, making its assessment important for land-use planning in mountainous regions. This study integrates Random Forest (RF) classificatio...
Restoration planning in tropical Andean headwaters is rarely tested against the climatic futures it must operate in, and rarely distinguishes what a strategy could achieve from what could actually be implemented. We modelled land-cover scenarios for...
Coastal flooding poses a major threat to urbanized coastlines, where extreme marine forcing interacts with complex coastal morphology and concentrated human activities. This study investigates storm-induced marine flooding along the Sidi Moussa-Sal&e...
Lahars in the ephemeral channels of Arequipa (Peru) are triggered by summer rainfall, the causes of which are poorly known. On 19 and 22 February 2026, extreme rainfall activated the tributaries of the Chullo channel on the southern flank of the Chac...
Landslides, as a natural hazard, pose a potential risk to human life and infrastructure. However, predicting and mitigating landslide susceptibility is challenging due to the complexity of contributing factors, such as slope, groundwater level, earth...
Forest loss in the Amazon links land conversion to carbon emissions and may alter the climatic conditions that support agriculture. This study examines how these relationships unfold within and across years using regional observations for 1990–...
Quantifying and knowing land use and land cover (LULC) change remains significant for tracking environmental changes and evaluating changes in a watershed’s hydrological response. This study applies the Natural Resources Conservation Service Cu...
Accurate characterization of wind directionality is essential for the safety and reliability of offshore operations in the Gulf of Thailand. The application of conventional linear statistical methods to angular measurements often faces challenges wit...
Streamflow response to precipitation, temperature, and relative humidity is inherently nonlinear, non-stationary, and scale-dependent, challenging traditional statistical methods in the time–frequency domain. To address this, we applied wavelet...
Flood susceptibility mapping is an important component of spatial flood-risk assessment; however, conventional machine-learning approaches provide limited information about prediction reliability and spatial uncertainty. This study develops an uncert...
Rapid urbanization and intensifying rainfall increasingly overwhelm conventional stormwater drainage, yet experimental evidence comparing it with Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDSs) in tropical cities such as Panama City is scarce. This study...
Second-crop corn is an important component of Brazilian grain production and is highly exposed to climatic variability because crop development occurs during the transition from the rainy to the drier season. This study assessed the performance of ma...
Winter precipitation in Northeastern Asia has important implications for regional climate and weather hazards, yet its month-to-month evolution under global warming remains poorly understood. Using observations and the Policy Decision-making for Futu...
Sustainable expansion of irrigated agriculture requires the identification of areas with favorable biophysical conditions while also considering water-resource and infrastructure constraints. This study assessed the biophysical land suitability for p...
This study investigates the effectiveness of informal and formal education channels in driving pro-environmental behavioral changes and situational learning outcomes among visitors in open-air educational settings. Using Skiathos Island (Greece) and...
Earth’s frozen water reserves are inherently dynamic and play a critical role in the hydrological processes of complex, dynamic river basins. Climate-driven environmental changes have led to a significant decrease in the area and duration of se...
In semi-arid Mediterranean regions like the Middle Seybouse Watershed (Northeastern Algeria), the accurate spatial prediction of environmental groundwater potential is vital for sustainable resource management and risk mitigation. This study develops...
Anomalous ozone loss in the Northern Hemisphere during winter–spring periods has been increasingly observed in recent decades. Regular monitoring of stratospheric gases involved in ozone-depleting processes is essential for predicting the appea...
The consequences of tropical forest cover loss for regional hydrometeorology and global ecosystem function represent one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. The Yucatán Peninsula (YP) has experienced unprecedented defore...
This study assessed blue carbon stocks in the Cispatá Bay Regional Integrated Management District (DRMI), Colombian Caribbean, using multitemporal Random Forest classification of Sentinel-1/2 imagery (2016–2025) spanning contrasting ENSO...
Illegal mining and the transboundary trade of poorly characterized mineral concentrates have expanded throughout the northwestern Amazonian Craton, particularly in eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela, and adjacent parts of northern Brazil. Materials...
Seasonal snow is a critical water resource in Northern Kazakhstan, where spring snowmelt dominates surface runoff and agricultural water supply. However, traditional rainwater harvesting frameworks often neglect snow water equivalent (SWE), limiting...
This study assessed spatial, seasonal, and interannual variability in physical and biogeochemical indicators in surface waters along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast during 2022–2025 to provide an integrated characterization of coastal marine cond...
The analysis of extreme weather events is a key aspect of present-day climate change research due to their significant socio-economic and ecological impacts. This study investigates the spatiotemporal variability of extreme heat events in Southeaster...
This study quantified the influence of temperature, atmospheric relative humidity, and seasonal and tidal variability on soil CO2 and CH4 fluxes in mangrove ecosystems on the Southern Swamp and the Pate Islands of the Lamu Archipelago, Kenya. The fie...
Tropical foothill forests are heterogeneous transition zones, yet field inventories remain sparse in the Andean–Amazonian region. We compared four forest stands to establish a local biodiversity baseline and determine whether tree diversity, fl...
The Anti-Atlas mountain range is a region of high geodiversity where geological heritage intersects with fragile socio-economic systems. This study evaluates the Agadir–Ouarzazate transect as a case study of sustainable territorial valorization...
Droughts are recurrent phenomena in the Amazon, and several major drought episodes have affected the region during the twenty-first century. This study examines the 2005, 2010, 2015–2016, and prolonged 2023–2024 drought episodes and evalu...
Rapid urbanization has intensified the urban heat island (UHI) effect in Southeast Asian megacities, necessitating effective nature-based solutions. This study evaluates the cooling capacity of diverse green spaces in Khung Bang Kachao (KBK), Thailan...
Constructed wetlands (CWs) offer a low-cost and sustainable option for wastewater treatment, but their performance is commonly assessed through infrequent, periodic field sampling that yields temporally sparse records. This study evaluated whether fi...
Carbon-accounting studies of small, lightly industrialized provinces remain underrepresented despite their relevance to regional climate policy. This study quantifies energy-related CO2 emissions from selected sources in Tunceli Province, Eastern T&u...
This study aimed to identify and characterise major wildfire events in South Africa (SA) between 2004 and 2023 by integrating long-term multi-source datasets with anomaly detection techniques. Biomass-burning emissions, such as black carbon from biom...
Groundwater quality in semi-arid regions is influenced by interacting geological, climatic, and human factors. This study integrated hydrochemical analysis, ionic relationships, multivariate statistics, Water Quality Index (WQI), and GIS-based spatia...
Metal contamination in karst aquifers is a growing concern in rapidly urbanizing coastal regions. The Ruta de los Cenotes in Quintana Roo comprises groundwater-fed cenotes of high hydrogeological and ecological relevance. This study characterized the...
Accurate solar irradiance forecasting in data-sparse tropical regions remains challenging due to complex terrain, rapid convective cloud formation, and limited ground-based observations. This study introduces a novel hybrid forecasting framework that...
Conventional evaluations of rainfall prediction models rely on average accuracy, often masking the conditions, locations and causes of model failure and reduced reliability. This study proposes a paradigm shift from conventional average-accuracy benc...
Vegetation change is regarded as a key indicator of environmental change and ecosystem functional evolution. In mountainous regions, vegetation dynamics arise from complex and non-linear interactions among climate, topography, land use, and human act...
The spatial distributions of the potential ecological risk index (RI) and the geoaccumulation index (Igeo) in soils of the Zhetysu region (Kazakhstan) were examined. The enrichment factor ranged from 39.4 for cadmium to 21,481 for nickel. There are f...
Sustainable marine economic development depends on the balanced integration of economic, social, and environmental dimensions. However, empirical evidence on the current degree of coordination among these dimensions remains limited, particularly in m...
The conventional linear “treat-and-discharge” model has been challenged due to rapid urbanisation and the increasing generation of complex industrial wastewater. To this end, circular economy (CE) approaches can be considered as a key str...
Lenggong Valley is an important heritage landscape in Malaysia commonly recognized for its outstanding archaeological, cultural, and environmental significance. However, increasing land use pressure around heritage areas may affect landscape authenti...
Water erosion is a core issue that threatens the ecological integrity of the highland ecosystems in the Andes Mountains and the agricultural sustainability of the Ramis River basin. This study uses the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE), wh...
Reliable spatial evidence can support quality assurance and quality control for land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), but land-cover and species-distribution layers do not by themselves identify IPCC Forest Land or species-pure stands. We...
Flash floods are among the most damaging hydrometeorological hazards in the Western Balkans (WB), yet regionally consistent, cross-border susceptibility assessments remain scarce because of fragmented national datasets and differing methodological st...
