“Source criticism” (källkritik) has become an essential part of the Swedish government’s activities against false information, deception campaigns, and propaganda, which are viewed as fundamentally destabilising forces that can...
Significant achievements have been made in the control of point source pollution. However, agricultural non-point source pollution (AGNPSP) has become a serious threat to ecological environment quality and is now the main source of pollution in the Y...
The identification and regulation of the critical source areas (CSAs) of non-point source (NPS) pollution have been proven as economical and effective ways to control such pollution in watersheds. However, the traditional models for the identificatio...
Non-point source (NPS) pollution is an important problem that has been threatening freshwater resources throughout the world. Best Management Practices (BMPs) can reduce NPS pollution delivery to receiving waters. For economic reasons, BMPs should be...
Critical source areas (CSAs) are the areas prone to generating runoff and are characterized by a high level of soil pollution. CSAs may accumulate and release soil pollutants emitted by primary emission sources (industrial and municipal enterprises)...
The efficient utilization of renewable heat sources is important for the performance enhancement of trans-critical CO2 heat pump systems and for promoting the transformation of energy structures. A composite-heat-source matching ratio is introduced i...
In recent years, coal-type critical metal deposits have become a research hotspot in coal geology. As a major coal-accumulating basin in the Xinjiang area, the Turpan-Hami Basin contains abundant coal resources and has the potential to become a large...
The spatiotemporal distribution of critical source areas (CSAs) will change with hydrological conditions. In this study, the CSAs of nitrogen load under different hydrological conditions in the Chaohe River watershed were identified using the cumulat...
L-shaped tunnels frequently occur in underground coal mines because of geological and operational limitations. Their complex geometry increases ventilation resistance and causes non-uniform airflow, promoting combustible gas accumulation and resultin...
To ensure the safe operation of an interconnected power system, it is necessary to maintain the stability of the frequency and the tie-line exchanged power. This is one of the hottest issues in the power system field and is usually called load freque...
Non-point source pollution poses a significant threat to global water security, and risk assessment and key source area (CSA) identification are critical for its management. While source–sink landscape models are widely used for non-point sourc...
To investigate the combustion characteristics of multiple fire sources in the tunnel caused by ‘jumping’ discontinuous fire spread, we utilized scaled model experiments, numerical simulation software, and theoretical research. Our study f...
Power systems with a high proportion of inverter-based sources like photovoltaics require a substantial short-circuit current ratio to ensure strong voltage support capabilities. However, this also increases the system’s short-circuit current c...
This study was the first attempt to identify the sources of total oxidized nitrogen (TON) and inorganic phosphorus (IP) in the water of the Selenga River—the main tributary of Lake Baikal. To identify TON and IP sources, the data on nutrient co...
This study proposes a comprehensive model for identifying mine water inrush sources in coal mines throughout the full mining cycle, utilizing an improved whitening function and the CRITIC-weighted grey situational decision method. Traditional water s...
Non-point source pollution is widely considered a serious threat to drinking water. Eutrophication in Chinese watershed is mainly due to nitrogen and phosphorus output from agricultural source. Taihu Lake is a typical eutrophic lake in China, a basin...
In order to complement gaps in the surveillance of solar activity in historical times, various proxies are used to reconstruct past solar cycles and long-term maxima and minima of solar activity, the most famous being the Maunder Minimum (MM), which...
Non-point source pollution (NPS) is difficult to manage for watersheds, due to the scattering of pollution sources and uncertainty over the time it takes to accumulate. Since local agriculture and poultry rearing prevail, NPS occupies a large proport...
Currently, the large-scale integration of renewable energy sources (RESs), such as wind turbines and photovoltaic array, is profoundly altering the dynamic behavior of power systems. In particular, the reduction in system inertia makes transient stab...
The performance of critical current density of GdBa2Cu3O7−δ (GdBCO or Gd123) superconductor bulk has an important influence on its practical applications. In this work, four single-domain GdBCO superconductor bulks were successfully proce...
This study developed a Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model for the Fuzhou River Basin in China to quantify the spatial distribution, sources, and reduction potential of total nitrogen (TN) load. We comprehensively evaluated the effectiveness...
Eutrophication events are frequent in Inner Danish waters and critical loads are exceeded for much of the Danish sensitive terrestrial ecosystems. The Danish air quality monitoring program combines measurements and model calculations to benefit from...
Source mask optimization (SMO), a primary resolution enhancement technology, is one of the most pivotal technologies for enhancing lithography imaging quality. Due to the high computation complexity of SMO, patterns should be selected by a selection...
The rapid digitization of large source collections in the humanities over the last three decades has comprehensively transformed the discipline. The accessibility of primary sources has improved drastically, the pre-processing of research data has be...
Global manufacturing firms are engaging distant suppliers of critical raw materials to participate in responsible sourcing. Downstream firms are concerned about risks in mineral supply chains of violent conflict, human rights violations, and poor gov...
Ruthenium, a critical metal, plays an increasingly important role in modern applications, such as catalysts for chemical synthesis and the production of hard disk drives. As a result, the supply has struggled to meet the growing demand in recent year...
Karst aquifers, vital freshwater resources, are highly vulnerable to agricultural pollution, yet their hydro-geochemical responses remain poorly understood due to high spatial heterogeneity. This study aimed to unravel these complex responses in a su...
This article examines how Nigerian newspapers frame Shell’s sustainability claims and asks whether that framing enables or challenges greenwashing by proxy: a pattern in which a corporation’s environmental claims gain the credibility of i...
Terrestrial ecosystems are facing increasingly severe threats driven by the dual pressures of climate change and anthropogenic activities. However, current remote sensing-based ecological research still exhibits notable deficiencies in the integratio...
Conventional static approaches to cultivated land quality (CLQ) assessment often fail to capture the rapid spatial restructuring of cultivated land in urbanizing regions. This study takes Chengdu, China, as the study area and employs multi-source and...
Agricultural drought is a major problem facing China’s agricultural production. In this study, the cash crop ‘peanut’ was used as an example to explore vulnerability. Through the atmosphere–plant–soil continuum system, a...
As a major water conservation region and ecological security barrier in China, the Three-River Source Region (TRSR) of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) is underlain by extensive permafrost. However, how permafrost degradation alters regional wat...
With increased demand for water and soil in this Anthropocene era, it is necessary to understand the water balance components and critical source areas of land degradation that lead to soil erosion in agricultural dominant river basins. Two medium-si...
Urban coastal cities face compounded flood hazards driven by sea-level rise, intense precipitation, and dense impervious surfaces. This study develops and demonstrates a cloud-native Python 3.12 GIS framework for flood susceptibility screening and cr...
Phosphorus (P) loss from cropland to ground and surface waters is a global concern. In cold climates (CCs), freeze–thaw cycles, snowmelt runoff events, and seasonally wet soils increase P loss potential while limiting P removal effectiveness of ripar...
With the rise of social media and the sharing of information, as well as the use of AI tools like ChatGPT in education, the ability to evaluate information credibility has become a crucial skill. The CREDIBLE framework, standing for Credibility, Reli...
Critical raw materials are economically and strategically important for industry both in the short and long term. However, their supply is at high risk due to limited domestic deposits and reliance on imports. As demand for these materials grows, alt...
Portfolio optimization is one of the problems most frequently encountered by financial practitioners. The main goal of this paper is to fill a gap in the literature by providing a well-documented, step-by-step open-source implementation of Critical L...
The effect of the discharge pressure on the performance of the trans-critical CO2 heat pump with a low gas-cooler outlet temperature is experimentally investigated on a test rig of water source heat-pump water heater. The optimal discharge pressure o...
The rare earth elements (REE) are vital to modern technologies and society and are amongst the most important of the critical elements. This special issue of Resources examines a number of facets of these critical elements, current and future sources...
Non-point source pollution (NSP) and runoff intensities and distribution are primarily affected by landscape structure and composition. Multiple causalities hinder our ability to determine significant variables that influence NSP. Therefore, we devel...
Agricultural nonpoint-source phosphorus (NPS-P) losses threaten receiving waters, but regional control is complicated by differences in source intensity, erosion sensitivity, and hydrologic connectivity. This study jointly applied an improved export...
Potential risk identification of agricultural nonpoint source pollution (ANPSP) is essential for pollution control and sustainable agriculture. Herein, we propose a novel method for potential risk identification of ANPSP via a comprehensive analysis...
A reliable and efficient power supply for critical infrastructure customers is key to ensuring energy security. Critical infrastructure requires local power sources. Currently, performance requirements for such sources have significantly increased. A...
Critical metals play a crucial role in advancing sustainable energy technologies, with their demand steadily increasing due to the global push for a circular economy. At present, critical metals are primarily extracted from mineral resources, but cri...
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Both the recent classification of naphthalene as a possible human carcinogen and its ubiquitous presence motivate this critical review of naphthalene’s sources and exposures. We evaluate the environmental literature on naphthalene published since 199...
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), which are divided into n-3 and n-6 classes, are essential for good health in humans and many animals. They are metabolised to lipid mediators, such as eicosanoids, resolvins and protectins. Increasing interest has...
The success of source protection in ensuring safe drinking water is centered around being able to understand the hazards present in the catchment then plan and implement control measures to manage water quality risk to levels which can be controlled...
Sufficient supplies of critical raw materials (CRMs) for rapidly developing technologies, e.g., Li-ion batteries, wind turbines, photovoltaics, digitization, etc., have become one of the main economic challenges for the EU. Due to growing import depe...
The process of winter bread wheat (WW) nutrient management in the Critical Cereal Window (CCW) has a decisive impact on yield component formation and, consequently, the grain yield (GY) and grain protein content (GPC). This hypothesis was verified in...
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