Earth

Groundwater beneath the seafloor in many of the world’s continental shelves has salinities well below that of seawater. Increasingly, there is pressure to tap into…
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One of the key problems related to safety and human life is the emissions of hazardous substances into the atmosphere from point sources, which are…
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The Great Lakes are an important resource to the population living in the US and Canada. They provide drinking water and feed the agricultural lands….
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Killifish have a broad range of geographical distribution, though the principal location of their natural habitats are the fresh waters of rivers, brooks, lakes, and swamps…
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The Ionian Sea (Fig.1a) is a highly dynamic area where many geodynamic[1,2,3], oceanographic[4,5], and climatic processes evolve[6,7,8,9,10]. Precipitation monitoring along this area is aimed at…
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Today, many scientists believe we are living through one of the greatest mass extinctions the world has ever seen. One may argue that existing species…
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Over the past decade, scientists have scoured through shale energy basins across the United States to analyze and better understand the environmental implications of unconventional…
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A worldwide, increasing trend of intense precipitation events under the influence of global warming has been indicated by scientists, exerting devastating effects on human beings….
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Several studies have found that both hydrological extremes (floods and droughts) are occurring more often and are becoming more intense in some regions of the…
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Rainfall is the main driver of the hydrological cycle. Its estimation is fundamental in many applications like climate monitoring, extreme weather prediction, and weather forecasting….
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A natural river often forms as a meandering channel to maintain a balance between bed erosion and sediment deposition. On both sides of a river,…
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