Agriculture is a major contributor to water pollution through nutrient runoff and excessive water use, exacerbating global water scarcity and ecosystem degradation. Water Quality Trading (WQT) has emerged as a market-based mechanism to address this i...
Lakes are crucial for ecosystems, greenhouse gas emissions and water resources, yet their surface-extent dynamics, particularly seasonality, remain poorly understood at continental to global scales owing to limitations in satellite observations. Alth...
Microplastic (MP) pollution has become a significant global concern in soil systems. The spatial risk of MPs in soils, the cascading effects of climate, human activities, and air quality, and the ecosystem gradients from natural habitats, agricultura...
Differentiating significant microbial community changes from normal fluctuations is vital for understanding microbial dynamics in human and environmental ecosystems. This knowledge could enable early warning systems to monitor critical changes affect...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
May 6, 2025
The Mount Kenya forest ecosystem (MKFE), a crucial biodiversity hotspot and one of Kenya's key water towers, is increasingly threatened by climate change, putting its ecological integrity and vital ecosystem services at risk. Understanding the intera...
Global industrialization has resulted in severe contamination of soil with heavy metals (HMs). Nevertheless, it is unclear if it affects the depth-resolved bacterial communities. Herein, we collected soil samples at different depths from a typical HM...
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
May 2, 2025
Soil acidification poses escalating threats to ecosystem functions, yet its spatiotemporal dynamics and drivers across vulnerable high-altitude regions remain poorly resolved. Here, we integrate four-decade soil surveys (1980s-2020s) with machine lea...
Passive acoustic monitoring can offer insights into the state of coral reef ecosystems at low-costs and over extended temporal periods. Comparison of whole soundscape properties can rapidly deliver broad insights from acoustic data, in contrast to de...
Phosphorus (P) pollution in aquatic ecosystems triggers eutrophication, disrupting ecological processes. Although phytoremediation using submerged macrophytes is promising, its efficacy depends on plant-microbe interactions and stoichiometric homeost...
Rocky reef temperate mesophotic ecosystems (TMEs) are increasingly recognised for their spatial extent and high biodiversity. Platforms such as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) allow large-scale collection of benthic imagery, facilitating descri...
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