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Lost in the glow: understanding the impact of light pollution on storm-petrels
Avian Conservation and EcologySeabirds are highly susceptible to human-induced threats such as light pollution, which alters their behavior and leads to increased mortality rates. Reports of storm-petrels (Hydrobatidae) affected by light pollution exist worldwide, yet the population ...
Rodrigo A Medina-Franco +2 more
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Modelling of radiocesium transfer in the lichen-reindeer/caribou-wolf food chain
Rangifer, 1990 The environmental contaminate radiocesium (cesium-137) has been shown to be of value as a marker in food selection and intake studies. Its greatest potential value as a food marker is in the subarctic/arctic regions, particularly in the lichen to ...
D. F. Holleman +2 more
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Fallout of Lead Over Paris From the 2019 Notre‐Dame Cathedral Fire
GeoHealth, 2020 The roof and spire of Notre‐Dame cathedral in Paris that caught fire and collapsed on 15 April 2019 were covered with 460 t of lead (Pb). Government reports documented Pb deposition immediately downwind of the cathedral and a twentyfold increase in ...
Alexander vanGeen +3 more
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Rangifer, 1990 The Chernobyl accident had a great impact on the semidomestic reindeer husbandry in central Norway. Seasonal differences in habitat and diet resulted in large variations in observed radiocesium concentrations in reindeer after the Chernobyl accident.
I.M. H. Eikelmann, K. Bye, H. D. Sletten
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Atmosphere, 2020 Since April of 2015, the ash dispersion and ash fallout due to Vulcanian eruptions at Tungurahua, one of the most active volcanoes in Ecuador, have been forecasted daily.
René Parra +3 more
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The consequenses in Sweden of the Chernobyl accident
Rangifer, 1990 The 137Cs activity concentrations in various kinds of animal material show very large variations.
Karl J. Johanson
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 Volcanic ash is a hazard to human health and activities. Accurate and timely forecasts coupled with effective communication about the dispersion and fallout of volcanic ash during explosive events are essential to reduce impacts on local communities and ...
Benjamin Bernard +8 more
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The Chernobyl Reference Horizon (?) in the Greenland Ice Sheet [PDF]
, 1989 Published reports of the presence of radioactive debris from the Chernobyl reactor accident in snow on the Greenland ice sheet raised the strong prospect that such debris might constitute a valuable time stratigraphic marker all over the ice sheet. Large
Dibb, Jack E.
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Analysis of External Surface Irregularities on Fukushima-Derived Fallout Particles
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2017 Three large high radioactivity particulate fragments, each several 100 μm in diameter, have been recovered from the region immediately surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Through the application of high-resolution electron and ion-beam
Peter George Martin +4 more
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Don’t Talk About Your Fallout Shelter: Civilian Perceptions of Threat and Structural Responses during the Cold War in Regina, Saskatchewan between 1958 and 1963 [PDF]
, 2019 During the Cold War, the Canadian government initiated a civil defence campaign urging private citizens to construct shelters to protect themselves from the effects of nuclear fallout.
Mushynsky, Julie
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