Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.
Amid the calls of gibbons and the whir of…
Category: 9. Environment
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Slightly radioactive Fukushima soil being used at Japanese prime minister’s office to prove safety
TOKYO (AP) — Decontaminated but slightly radioactive soil from Fukushima was delivered Saturday to the Japanese prime minister’s office to be reused in an effort to showcase…
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Monthly precipitation prediction based on quadratic decomposition and improved parrot algorithm
CEEMDAN algorithm
The CEEMDAN algorithm24 evolved from the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), Ensemble EMD (EEMD), and Complementary Ensemble EMD (CEEMD) algorithms. It effectively suppressed the mode-mixing phenomenon in EMD, generated…
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Heatwaves amplify air pollution risks in Sub-Saharan Africa
In the last 30 years, Rwanda has undergone rapid urbanization, population growth, and urban expansion. This rapid development has led to the creation of urban heat islands in larger cities, driven by high-density building and reductions in…
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Why reforestation isn’t just about trees
- Sociologist Thomas Rudel explores the social and political forces behind global reforestation, arguing that forest regrowth is rarely automatic and often depends on human decisions and local conditions.
- He critiques…
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Spatial modeling of snow water equivalent in the high atlas mountains via a lumped process-based approach
Research area
The study area is situated in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains, including the Rheraya sub-basin (within the Tensift basin), as well as the Ait Ouchene and Tillouguite sub-basins (within the Oum Er-Rbia basin). Specifically, these…
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Establishing radar-derived rainfall thresholds for a landslide early warning system: a case study in the Sichuan Basin, Southwest China
Gariano, S. L. & Guzzetti, F. Landslides in a changing climate. Earth Sci. Rev. 162, 227–252 (2016).
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Liu, S. et al. Regional early warning model for rainfall induced landslide based…
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Sri Lanka tusker death sparks euthanasia debate & calls for conservation solutions
- Bhathiya, an iconic Sri Lankan tusker, suffered multiple gunshot wounds that left him immobilized and eventually led to his collapse.
- His prolonged suffering drew media coverage, public outrage and political…
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Videos capture an unlikely alliance between ocelots and opossums in the Amazon
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.
In the Peruvian Amazon, a series of curious…
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Evolution in overdrive as Baltic cod shrink due to fishing pressure, study shows
- The eastern Baltic cod has shrunk dramatically in size in recent decades due to rapid evolution — changes at the genetic level — caused by decades of intensive fishing, a new study says.
- Eastern Baltic cod,…
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