Earth and Environmental Science: Recent submissions
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Detecting centennial changes in the clarity and colour of the Red and Eastern Mediterranean Seas by retracting the “Pola” expeditions
(Frontiers Media, 22 August 2024)The world’s oceans and seas are changing rapidly due to several natural and anthropogenic reasons. Among these, the largest and likely most threatening to marine life being the climate crisis and rising sea temperatures. ... -
Tailings storage facilities, failures and disaster risk
(Nature Research, 6 August 2024)Mining generates 13 billion tonnes per year of potentially toxic wet slurry waste, called tailings, commonly deposited in tailings storage facilities (TSF). Since 1915, 257 TSF failures have occurred, releasing a total of ... -
Modelling the control of groundwater on the development of colliery spoil tip failures in Wales
(MDPI, 19 August 2024)Legacy colliery spoil tip failures pose a significant hazard that can result in harm to persons or damage to property and infrastructure. In this research, the 2020 Wattstown tip landslide caused by heavy rainfall was ... -
The optimum fire window: applying the fire–productivity hypothesis to Jurassic climate states
(Copernicus Publications, 13 June 2024)Present-day fire frequency is related to a productivity-aridity gradient on regional and global scales. Optimum fire conditions occur at times of intermediate productivity and aridity, whereas fire is limited at the high ... -
Integrated stratigraphy of Pliensbachian and Toarcian strata from the northern Neuquén Basin, Argentina
(Borntraeger Science Publishers, 18 July 2024)The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE, ~183 Ma) was marked by globally recognized environmental perturbations, most notably disturbances to the global carbon cycle and climate. To date, geochemical records providing ...