The paper describes experimental research and the results of these studies carried out in various bays of the Primorsky Territory of Russia using a supersensitive detector of hydrosphere pressure variations and a sound velocity profiler with pressure...
Plastic litter is on the rise where plastic waste ends up in undesignated areas such as the coastal shorelines, where the plastic is exposed to environmental conditions. As a result, the degradation and decomposition of plastics occur, leading to the...
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development focuses on ensuring a healthy environment for present and future generations by avoiding risks associated with consumption, exploitation of natural resources and pollution. Maintaining an environmentally aw...
This paper presents an instrument based on an equal-arm Michelson interferometer and a frequency-stabilized helium-neon laser. It is designed to record hydrosphere pressure variations in the frequency range from 0 (conventionally) to 1000 Hz, with ac...
The hydrosphere is a foundational component of the Earth’s systems, sustaining biological processes, regulating environmental stability, and enabling socioeconomic development [...]
A worldwide issue directly affecting human health, resources, and ecosystems concerns the harmful consequences of anthropogenic and geo-environmental influences on the hydrosphere [...]
Studies have been conducted on the potential development of Hydrogenobacter thermophilus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in an anaerobic environment, both in the presence and absence of molecular hydrogen (H2). H. thermophilus developed better at 70 °...
In the article we analyzed the results of processing experimental data of the range of surface gravity sea wind waves (2–20 s) and the range of infra-gravitational sea waves (30 s–10 min), obtained on the laser meter of hydrosphere pressu...
This paper describes the results of monitoring wave processes in the geospheres using laser interference instruments, a weather station, a seismometer, and other measuring devices. Processing in situ data revealed general patterns in seismic events a...
In this paper, the authors analyze data obtained from a supersensitive detector of hydrosphere pressure variations which was positioned on the shelf of the Sea of Japan at a depth of 25 m for several months. When processing this data, the main attent...
The authors propose considering the structure and evolutionary changes in the biosphere from the standpoint of a biogeomics approach. It is necessary to study biogeomes as systems of ecosystems that are similar in their structural and functional orga...
To study the specific features of free surface oscillations in the northwestern part of Posyet Bay (the Sea of Japan), a series of experimental works using an installation with a laser meter for measuring hydrosphere pressure variations were carried...
Who’s cooking, who’s cleaning, and who’s got the remote control within the waters blanketing Earth? Anatomically tiny, numerically dominant microbes are the crucial “homemakers” of the watery household. Phytoplankton’s culinary abilities enable them...
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) are playing an increasingly important role in monitoring climate change, providing precise and continuous data on processes occurring in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere....
The rare earth elements (REE) comprise a group of 16 chemically very similar elements that occur widespread in rocks, soils, and water bodies, share similar ionic radii to the essential element Ca2+, and consequently also occur in biota. Given that R...
The origin of the man on Earth is directly associated with the determination of directions of the flow distribution of the ancient man dispersal to adjacent territories. In such studies, mainly landscape and climatological changes are traditionally c...
Repurposing of the anthelminthic drug niclosamide was proposed as an effective treatment for inflammatory airway diseases such as asthma, cystic fibrosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Niclosamide may also be effective for the treatment...
Many quantitative and qualitative methods have been developed to estimate the seismic vulnerability of Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs). The research approach using questionnaires is the most common qualitative process to quickly access estimation...
During the past 25 ka, southern Ethiopia has undergone tremendous climatic changes, from dry and relatively cold during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 25–18 ka) to the African Humid Period (AHP, 15–5 ka), and back to present-day dry conditions. As a...
In this study, we calculate the hydrological plus cryospheric excitation of polar motion (hydrological plus cryospheric angular momentum, HAM/CAM) using mascon solutions based on observations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) a...
Based on the field data of laser interference devices obtained on the shelf of the Sea of Japan, the interaction of internal sea waves with the bottom and the transfer of energy from the sea wave to the seismic acoustic wave were studied. It has been...
We are interested in modelling smaller datasets to generate more accurate, sub-regional or regional climate forecasts. The focus of this paper is to present the findings of a study investigating the application of empirical mode decomposition (EMD) t...
Bottom sediments in anthropogenically impacted freshwater systems represent a dynamic and poorly constrained source of secondary pollution, where heavy metal mobility, rather than total concentration, controls the release of contaminants into the wat...
This paper reviews the results of the processing of synchronized data on hydrosphere pressure variations and the Earth’s crust deformation in the microseismic range (5–15 s), obtained over the course of numerous experiments, using a coastal laser str...
In the Earth’s hydrosphere, 96 [...]
Hydrogeology is a crucial branch of Earth science dedicated to deciphering the complex interactions between groundwater and the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere [...]
Border regions face challenges managing natural resources, which include forests, wildlife, air, and rivers. This study aims to provide an overview of research on various natural resource conflicts and cooperation in borderlands worldwide, considerin...
Global water cycle dynamics involve the exchange of water and energy matter among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere [...]
The results of theoretical analysis and practical implementation of seismoacoustic methods developed for monitoring ice-covered regions in the Arctic are presented and discussed. Special attention is paid to passive seismoacoustic tomography as a uni...
Geohazards associated with the dynamics of the liquid and solid water of the Earth’s hydrosphere, such as floods and glacial processes, may pose significant risks to populations, activities and properties [...]
We live in a Quaternary world, that is, a world shaped by the interplay of the different compartments of the earth system—lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere—during the last ~2.6 million years [...]
Soil, as a key component of the four circles interconnecting atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere, plays a vital role in sustaining human life and the terrestrial system globally [...]
This paper describes an ocean-bottom laser seismograph, based on the modified laser meter of hydrosphere pressure variations, and designed to record vertical bottom displacements at the place of its location. Its measuring accuracy is about 1 nm, lim...
Transfer of nutrients from agriculture and wastewater to the hydrosphere attracts attention of policymakers and scientists due to an increasingly important influence on the water environment. Crop and livestock production and fisheries predominantly...
The hydrosphere is an element of the climate system and changes in the latter are reasonably projected over the river outflow. Climatic changes, however, are unevenly distributed over the Earth, and understanding their regional imprint on the hydrosp...
Researchers have made efforts to develop high-productivity photocatalysts for photocatalytic hydrogen production to reduce the problem of a lack of energy. Bulk semiconductor photocatalysts mainly endure particular limitations, such as low visible li...
In this work, a new binary MoS2/Co3O4 nanohybrids was successfully fabricated and the chemical structures, morphologies, electrochemical and optical characterizations were carried out. In addition, heterojunction nanoparticles present in S-scheme str...
Photocatalytic hydrogen production joined with simultaneous organic compound removal is a potential but challenging approach for both environmental modification and reusable energy generation. In this study, we designed a nanocomposite method for the...
In recent years, ZnO/Co3O4 nanoparticles (NPs) have been reflected as typical of the most promising photocatalysts utilized in the field of photocatalysis for potentially solving energy shortages and environmental remediation. In this work, a novel Z...
Graphene is regarded as a potential co-photocatalyst for photocatalytic hydrogen (H2) evolution, but its great photocatalytic ability requires tuning the band gap structure or design morphology of composites. In this study, MoS2/TiO2/graphene (MTG) n...
A better understanding of the water and energy cycles at climate scale in the Third Pole Environment is essential for assessing and understanding the causes of changes in the cryosphere and hydrosphere in relation to changes of plateau atmosphere in...
In the paper, we discuss the results of processing and analysis of field data obtained from a laser-based supersensitive detector during the registering of hydrosphere pressure variations on the seabed at various points of the Sea of Japan shelf. The...
With increasing interdisciplinarity, more studies are examining environmental problems from an integrated perspective. This is apparent in the geological sciences and physical geography, which incorporate various disciplinary approaches, including bi...
Red coloring determines the commercial value of blood parrot cichlids (Vieja melanurus × Amphilophus citrinellus). While synthetic astaxanthin (SA) is commonly used to improve hue, its expensive cost has prompted the quest for more sustainable...
Bisphenol A (BPA), an environmental estrogen, is widely used and largely released into the hydrosphere, thus inducing adverse effects in aquatic organisms. Here, Xenopus tropicalis was used as an animal model to investigate the oxidative effects of B...
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The global warming and its adverse effects on the atmosphere, the biosphere, the lithosphere, and the hydrosphere are obvious. Based on this fact, the international community is fully convinced that we need to fix the problem urgently for our surviva...
An analysis of the behavior of the infra-gravitational sea wave revealed nonlinear hydrophysical disturbance of the “rogue waves” type. This disturbance is associated with transformation of sea waves when they move along a coastal marine...
One of the main tasks of the circular economy is the decoupling between economic growth and natural resource consumption at the input and the volume of generated waste at the output. The effectiveness of this process can be assessed by the dynamics o...
Aquaponic systems are made up of hydroponic beds and recycled aquaculture systems. The significant elements that determine how effectively an aquaponic system operates are the nitrogen cycle (nitrification) and the phosphorus cycle (phosphate). Becau...
The calculation of erosion and deposition in riverways plays a pivotal role in river morphology studies, comprehensive river management and flood safety. Some existing methods have certain limitations in terms of accuracy and applicability. To addres...
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