Water research
Oct 27, 2025
Supervised deep learning methods have been widely employed to detect floating macroplastic litter (>5 mm) in (fresh)water bodies. However, few studies used them to quantify floating litter fluxes in rivers with wide cross-sections, that is important ...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
Oct 24, 2025
Shallow reservoirs on large rivers are highly dynamic systems vulnerable to sediment accumulation, eutrophication, and water quality deterioration, posing significant threats to their storage capacity, hydropower generation, and ecological balance. R...
Environmental geochemistry and health
Oct 24, 2025
More than 50% of the world's largest countries and cities depend on groundwater for their daily needs. In particular, 80% of the largest cities in the Middle East, South Asia, and Central Asia rely on groundwater for drinking, irrigation, and industr...
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Oct 21, 2025
The Weihe River Basin, located within the Yellow River Basin, is an ecologically important region increasingly threatened by arsenic (As) contamination in surface water, which poses risks to both environmental security and public health. This study c...
The Science of the total environment
Oct 21, 2025
Generating appropriate ecological risk assessments to support the rapid growth of nanotechnology requires a comprehensive understanding of the potential effects of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs), both toxic and beneficial, and accurate predictions o...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
Oct 21, 2025
Climate change is one of the most extreme challenges of the twenty-first century. Precipitation (pr) and temperature variability are key indicators of climate change detection. Whereas hybrid deep learning (DL) models have been widely applied, their ...
The Science of the total environment
Oct 17, 2025
Tracing the geographic origin of wood remains a major challenge in the fight against illegal timber in tropical countries. Methods using anatomical, chemical, isotopic and DNA markers have been successfully tested, but methods are either expensive, u...
Scientific reports
Oct 17, 2025
This study investigates the spatiotemporal variations in water quality and assesses the associated human health risks in the Luvuvhu River Catchment (LRC), South Africa. Water quality parameters such as pH, total dissolved solids (TDS), turbidity, te...
Environmental science & technology
Oct 16, 2025
The objective of this study was to identify chemical constituents as markers of six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) sources including aqueous film-forming foam-impacted groundwater, landfill leachate, biosolids leachate, municipal wastewate...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
Oct 16, 2025
Marine oil spills pose severe threats to marine ecosystems, where rapid and accurate oil spill region segmentation is crucial for emergency response to disasters. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), with its all-weather and day-night observation capabili...