The Quality of Clarity: Lessons from the Sixty‐Year Struggle to Maintain the Purity of Lake Taupō
Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 2, June 2026.Sixty years of effort to protect the exceptionally clear water of Lake Taupō, the largest lake in Aotearoa New Zealand, show how environmental memory can help manage a cultural and natural resource. I describe how water clarity and quality in this lake have been protected, through managing soil erosion and phosphorus flows during the 1960s–1980s, and ...
Jonathan West
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Working animal welfare and their multidimensional roles on livelihood improvement in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
Anim WelfTariku GD +3 more
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Legume Science, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Given increasing water scarcity, the need to reduce chemical inputs, and the growing demand for nutritionally valuable vegetable oils, identifying sustainable cropping systems for camelina production has become increasingly important. This study aimed to evaluate the combined effects of nitrogen application, irrigation regimes (irrigated and ...
Shahzad Jamaati Somarin +3 more
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Optimization of tribo-mechanical properties of kenaf/jute-SiC hybrid composites using integrated grey-fuzzy approach. [PDF]
Sci RepMurugan A +6 more
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Legume Science, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L.) is a drought‐tolerant crop and an important source of gum and bioactive compounds. The present study was conducted to investigate the response of 15 different guar genotypes under three soil moisture levels (100%, 70%, and 45% FC).
Warqaa Muhammed ShariffAl‐Sheikh +3 more
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Effect of In Situ Synthesized Al2O3 and TiC on the Microstructure and Properties of 6061 Aluminum Matrix Composites. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Long W, Zhou J, Hu X, Liu S, Jiang W.
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Integrated Soil Salinisation Management Strategies in Agriculture
Modern Agriculture, Volume 4, Issue 1, June 2026.This review synthesises integrated water, agronomic, and biochemical strategies for managing soil salinisation, presenting a decision framework for selecting cost‐effective amendments based on initial soil assessment and long‐term sustainability monitoring. ABSTRACT Soil salinisation poses a global threat to agricultural sustainability, affecting about
Yingying Xing, Xuning Liu, Xiukang Wang
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The Abrasive Effect of Moon and Mars Regolith Simulants on Stainless Steel Rotating Shaft and Polytetrafluoroethylene Sealing Material Pairs. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Kalácska G +6 more
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Potential Benefit of Predator Exclusion Fence for the Threatened Ground Wētā Hemiandrus fabella
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Volume 53, Issue 2, June 2026.Although conservation practitioners in Aotearoa New Zealand are world‐leaders in predator exclusion fencing for threatened species conservation, the degree to which fences protect invertebrates has not been extensively studied, especially in non‐forested environments.
Madeline M. Pye +2 more
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Multi-objective optimization of design parameters for tractor hydro-mechanical continuously variable transmissions. [PDF]
Sci RepZhu Z, Hou R, Zhang H, Wang D, Chen L.
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