Illegal invasions in the Karipuna Indigenous Territory in the northwest of the Brazilian Amazon have started to advance again, Karipuna leaders told Mongabay following an alert by…
Category: 9. Environment
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Northwestward shifts in the locations of genesis reduce the lifetime of landfalling tropical cyclones in China
Observed short lifetimes of landfalling TCs in China
Since the beginning of the global satellite observation era in the 1980 s, the longest recorded duration of a landfalling TC in China was observed in 1986, when Typhoon Wayne (8614) remained…
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SWAT-based soil erosion and sediment yield modeling in the upper Gilgel Abay catchment, Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
GSP (Global Soil Partnership). (2017). Endorses guidelines on sustainable soil management. http://www.fao.org/global-soilpartnership/resources/highlights/detail/en/c/416516/.
Borrelli, P., Robinson, D. A., Fleischer, L. R., Lugato, E., Ballabio,…
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Warming Alaskan rivers affect first-year growth in critical northern food fishes
Brown, D. R. N. et al. Changing river ice seasonality and impacts on interior Alaskan communities. Weather Clim. Soc. 10, 625–640. https://doi.org/10.1175/wcas-d-17-0101.1 (2018).
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Machine learning analysis of greenhouse gas sources impacting Africa’s food security nexus
The focus of this study was to explore machine learning and statistical learning techniques to identify the key driver (greenhouse gas) of climate change relating to food security. The predictive performance of the seven machine learning models…
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Assessment of terrestrial radionuclide exposure and contamination rates within the Mbaitoli area, Nigeria
Study location
Physiography
Nigeria’s southeastern region comprises Imo State, which has an area of approximately 5,100 square kilometers. Imo state (Fig. 1) is situated between the longitudes of 6040′0’’E and 7030′0’’E and the…
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An ensemble Kalman filter with rescaling disaggregation for assimilating terrestrial water storage into hydrological models
Data assimilation
Sequential ensemble-based Data Assimilation
Data Assimilation (DA) aims to update model states to push them towards the observations, all by accounting for the uncertainty of both the models and the observations. While…
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She built a newsroom across 7 countries—Here’s how she did it
- Maria Isabel Torres, Program Director of Mongabay Latam, has spent nearly a decade shaping the bureau into a regional leader in environmental journalism, building a cross-border newsroom recognized for…
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African bats require monitoring in protected areas, study finds
Bats play a vital role in African ecosystems, from pollination and seed dispersal to pest control, significantly contributing to local ecology and livelihoods. The conventional…
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Reversing deforestation relies on resource ownership (commentary)
- The transition from deforestation to reforestation will rely on local resource ownership, because this ownership is an unavoidable prerequisite for the financing of carbon sequestration and other ecosystem services…
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