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Heavy metals pollution profiles in Tigris River within Baghdad city

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environment, 2022
The Tigris River is a major source of Iraq’s drinking and agricultural water supply. An increase in pollution by heavy metals can be a great threat to human and aquatic life.
Z. Aljanabi, Fikrat M. Hassan, A. M. J. Jawad Al-Obaidy   +2 more
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Megafaunal Rodents: Behaviour and Ecological Roles of Southeast Asian Forest Porcupines

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 12, December 2025.
Southeast Asian porcupines (Malayan porcupine, Hystrix brachyura; brush‐tailed porcupine, Atherurus macrourus) performed at least four important ecological roles in a Malaysian rainforest. Burrows of both species were used in several ways by at least 22 animal species, while the soil above was potentially good sites for seedling recruitment. Porcupines
Kim R. McConkey, Alicia Solana Mena, Param bin Pura, Charang Muhamad Tauhid bin Tunil, Husin Sudin A/L Din, Lisa Ong, Ahimsa Campos‐Arceiz, Sean Eeshwaran Sinnaveeran, Sanjay D. Ramarao, Ee Phin Wong   +9 more
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Will the Establishment of a National Park Protect More Suitable Habitats for the Qinling Golden Snub‐Nosed Monkey?

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 11, November 2025.
The protection gap of high‐suitability habitat patches in national parks has decreased by 36.94%, compared with nature reserves. The loss of high‐suitability habitat patches in natural development scenario, with decreased 181 km2 in national park scenario by 2030. ABSTRACT The Qinling Mountains, recognized as a biodiversity hotspot, are included in the
Tong Wu, Xiaoxiao Shu, Xiaowei Wang, Haitao Zhao, Li Zhao, Shuaibin Shang, Yan Wang, Wei Li, Yi Ren, Weiwei Fu, Shujun He, Daibo Zhu, Bin Guo, Guiyuan Zhang, Chengliang Wang   +14 more
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Hydro‐Insurgency: Weaponization of Water Resources and Infrastructure in Northeast Syria

World Water Policy, Volume 11, Issue 4, Page 924-938, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article examines the strategic weaponization of water resources by Turkey‐backed armed groups in Northeast Syria (NES) within the broader context of the Syrian civil war. As the conflict evolved, water infrastructure—dams, rivers, and irrigation systems—became central to warfare, governance, and foreign agendas. The article introduces the
Farhad Hassan Abdullah Mamshai
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Factors Affecting Transboundary Water Disputes: Nile, Indus, and Euphrates–Tigris River Basins

Water
Transboundary water disputes arise as nations compete over shared water resources, exacerbated by climate change, socio-economic inequalities, and geopolitical tensions. These disputes, prominent in river basins like the Nile, Euphrates–Tigris, and Indus,
Mujib Ahmad Azizi, Jorge Leandro
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Past research and future directions in understanding how birds use their sense of smell

Ibis, Volume 167, Issue 4, Page 853-881, October 2025.
Our understanding of the functional importance of olfaction to birds has improved over the past 60 years, largely as the result of experimental studies testing how birds use their sense of smell in different contexts. As it is impossible to measure directly which odours birds can detect, we rely on measuring behavioural responses to scent cues or ...
Darcy Creece, Rafael Freire, Melanie Massaro   +2 more
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Declassified intelligence satellite imagery as a tool to reconstruct past landforms and surface processes: The submerged riverscape of the Tigris River below the Mosul Dam Lake, Iraq

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2022
Located along the Tigris River in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the Mosul Dam Reservoir is the second biggest dam of the Near East and represents an important water storage for local human activities.
Luca Forti, G. S. Mariani, F. Brandolini, Andrea Pezzotta, A. Zerboni   +4 more
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Widespread Extent of Irrecoverable Aquifer Depletion Revealed by Country‐Wide Analysis of Land Surface Subsidence Hazard in Iran

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 130, Issue 9, September 2025.
Abstract Ongoing depletion of Iran's groundwater, driven by human extraction, has contributed to 106 incidences of basin‐scale, land‐surface subsidence covering 31,400 km2 (> ${ >} $10 mm/yr, 1.9%) of the country. We use Sentinel‐1 Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar time series to map and analyze, for the first time, surface velocities within ...
Jessica A. Payne, A. R. Watson, Y. Maghsoudi, S. K. Ebmeier, R. Rigby, M. Lazecký, M. Thomas, J. R. Elliott   +7 more
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ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE FISHERIES IN THE LOWER REACHES OF THE TIGRIS RIVER, NORTH QURNA, BASRAH, IRAQ

IRAQI JOURNAL OF AQUACULTURE, 2022
The fisheries of the lower reaches of Tigris river, north Qurna in Basrah Governorate have been analyzed during the period from January to December 2005. The fishing boats used there varied in lengths form 5 to 10m, of which 50% were motorized with 25-75
A. Mohamed, Sajed S. Al-Noor, R. A. Faris   +2 more
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Risky behavior of Asian black bears differs between sex and season in a landscape fragmented by roads

Journal of Zoology, Volume 326, Issue 4, Page 339-351, August 2025.
We investigated sex and seasonal differences in the road crossing behavior of Asian black bears (Ursus thibetanus) living in central Honshu Island, Japan, as an example of wildlife risk‐taking behavior in a highly fragmented landscape. Our results show that Asian black bears generally avoid crossing roads, and that there are seasonal differences in ...
S.‐Y. Baek, A. Zedrosser, K. Yamazaki, Y. Goto, N. Takekoshi, S. Koike   +5 more
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