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Strengthening urban resilience in China through underground infrastructures management: Addressing global climate challenges with technological solutions

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This paper explores how climate‐resilient technologies, such as smart grids, digital twins, and self‐healing materials, can enhance urban resilience. It highlights the urgent need for proactive planning, public‐private collaboration, and data‐driven innovation to future‐proof underground infrastructure amid accelerating climate and urban pressures ...
Kai Chen Goh, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Christia Meidiana, Abdelkader Anouzla, Faissal Aziz, Imran Ali, Joan Cecilia C. Casila, M. Imran Khan, Dongdong Zhang, Meihui Jiang, Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman, Md Munir Hayet Khan, Kasun Kumara Dissanayake   +12 more
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Patterns of understorey bird diversity across Amazonian forests: survey effort and range maps predict local species richness

Ecography, EarlyView.
Species diversity typically increases from higher to lower latitudes, but the regional‐scale variation along this geographic gradient remains unclear. It has been suggested that species diversity throughout Amazonia generally increases westward toward the Andes, but this pattern and its environmental determinants require further investigation for most ...
Pilar L. Maia‐ Braga, Anderson S. Bueno, Marina F. A. Maximiano, Torbjørn Haugaasen, Marina Anciães, John G. Blake, Bette A. Loiselle, Sergio H. Borges, Juliana Menger, Sidnei Dantas, Ramiro D. Melinski, Affonso H. N. Souza, Fernando H. T. de Abreu, Roberta L. Boss, Carlos A. Peres   +14 more
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A Forest of Blue - Canada's Boreal Forest, the World's Waterkeeper [PDF]

, 2011
Describes how the lakes, rivers, and wetlands comprising the boreal forest preserve biodiversity, mitigate global climate change effects, and offer food and cultural benefits to rural communities.

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Freshwater fish functional diversity shows diverse responses to human activities, but consistently declines in the tropics

Ecography, EarlyView.
Freshwater environments are intertwined with human activities and the consequence has been environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. Fish provide key ecological and economic benefits, and fish abundance and diversity can be affected by human activities resulting in functional diversity (FD) changes that might scale up to ecosystem impacts ...
Romullo Guimarães de Sá Ferreira Lima, Bruno Eleres Soares, Marc Cadotte, Míriam Pilz Albrecht   +3 more
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Repairing earth dam drainage systems

Vestnik MGSU, 2019
Introduction: when reconstructing or overhauling dams, great attention should be paid to drainage systems as the most critical components of the installations. The article describes the typical malfunctions of earth dam pipe drainages. The research considers geological and hydrogeological features that were not taken into account when developing ...
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Alpine ungulates adjust diel activity to the natural return of wolves amid anthropogenic pressures

Ecography, EarlyView.
As wolves recolonise their historical range across Europe, ungulates face predation once more – but in landscapes profoundly altered by human activity. This shift raises crucial questions about their capacity to express adaptive antipredator behaviours.
Charlotte Vanderlocht, Valerio Donini, Andrea Corradini, Simone Dal Farra, Benjamin Robira, Andrea Gazzola, Giorgia Galeotti, Laura Limonciello, Noemi Squillaci, Maël Van Dam, Giada Zeni, Marta Gandolfi, Elisa Iacona, Lucrezia Lorenzetti, Matteo Nava, Federico Ossi, Heidi C. Hauffe, Francesco Ferretti, Luca Corlatti, Luca Pedrotti, Francesca Cagnacci   +20 more
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Moss diatoms show regional structuring, high potential endemism, and an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient in the Arctic

Ecography, EarlyView.
Microorganisms perform essential functions in Arctic terrestrial ecosystems. Yet, their ecology and biogeography are poorly understood, despite being necessary to predict microbial responses to future climate change. Here, we provide the first large‐scale floristic and biogeographic study of the moss diatom flora in the tundra regions of the North ...
Charlotte Goeyers, Elie Verleyen, Bart Van de Vijver, Tyler J. Kohler, Petra Klímová, S. Robbert Gradstein, Koen Sabbe   +6 more
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Solar Energy in 2025: Global Deployment, Cost Trends, and the Role of Energy Storage in Enabling a Resilient Smart Energy Infrastructure

ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
This paper explores global solar PV deployment, cost trends, and grid integration challenges in 2025. It examines the role of energy storage in firming solar output and supporting electric vehicle (EV) growth, alongside policy shifts, investment flows, and technological innovations.
Ehsan Rezaee, S. Ravi P. Silva
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On Avatar: digital commerce as activist pedagogy? [PDF]

, 2013
Contemporary media allow digital environments to function as transnational classrooms, a multidimensional public sphere accessible to people with Internet connection.
Tzanelli, R
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Seismic Design of Concrete Dams: An Integrated Risk‐Informed Performance‐Based (RIPB) Framework

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances the integration of risk‐informed principles into the seismic design of dams—a domain long guided by standards‐based, largely deterministic approaches. While performance‐based earthquake engineering is well established for buildings and bridges, its systematic adoption in dam engineering remains limited. We first address two
M. Amin Hariri‐Ardebili, Larry K. Nuss
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