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In neighborhoods with high bird diversity and tree species richness, residents report better mental health, according to an analysis combining population surveys, mental health indicators, bird species, and greenness data across 36 Canadian cities.
A mountain-building event on the paleo-Pacific margin of Gondwana occurred 590 million years ago, based on detrital garnet geochronology of modern sands and Permo-Carboniferous glacial sediments from South Australia.
In brighter, urbanized areas the start of the growing season is most sensitive to daytime temperature, whereas nighttime temperature is most influential in extending the end of the season, according to analyses of remotely sensed data from 2012 to 2021 in a highly-urbanized area of Seoul, South Korea.
China’s national nature reserves can only protect about one-half of bird and mammal populations for longterm survival, with less success for highly motile species, sugggests an analysis with an ecological network model based on graph theory.
Excessive rainfalls have led to a greater decrease in monsoon-season rice yield in India than deficit rainfalls, suggests a statistical analysis of historical rice production and climate data from 1990 to 2017.
Cyclone Ilsa made landfall on Bedout Island, off the coast of Western Australia, on April 13 2023 and killed 80-90% of seabirds of three species nesting on that island, according to an analysis of aerial and ground surveys of seabird populations in April, June and July 2023.
A long-exposure photography technique combined with air pollution monitoring can be used to create light paintings to highlight air pollution and create a broader public discourse on how to improve it, suggests the environmental community project “Air of the Anthropocene”.
A broad boost to dryland vegetation productivity due to the CO2 fertilization effect is negated by climate changes in at most 4% of global drylands, resulting in desertification, according to analysis of climate and vegetation datasets.
Hydrodynamic modelling and machine learning-based methods can effectively model tsunami damage mechanisms and represent an improvement over traditional univariate fragility functions for vulnerability assessments.
The variations in magnesium isotopes in arc lavas from different subduction zones can be ascribed to dehydration reactions in subduction zones, according to first-principles calculations.
A three-stage tectonic evolution model in the West Philippine Basin depicts the interaction between back-arc spreading and mantle plume processes, according to morphological analysis, geochemical and geochronological data.
Laboratory measurements coupled with a new mixing rule for desert dust aerosol mineralogy improves constraints on the refractive index of hematite and could improve the spatial representation of dust optical properties used in climate models.
Statistical analyses of seismicity following earthquakes of magnitude 7.5 or higher finds a reduced occurrence of mainshocks at remote distances from the epicentre which may indicate wider energy release after very large seismic events.
The provision of residential heating and cooling by using the geothermal potential of decommissioned open pits can be economically competitive, especially at higher pit temperature, according to a techno-economic assessment of open pits in Australia and Germany.
Modelling the Ocean Heat-Carbon Nexus in Simple Climate Models results in inconsistencies, which could impact future climate projections and emission-to-concentration translation, according to a modelling analysis.
The biome shift in boreal North America towards increased potential tree height is concentrated in transitional forests and is likely to continue until 2100, whatever the climate scenario, according to satellite data and climate model projections.