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Climate Change Threatening Archaeological Heritage in (Former) Riverbeds

Blue Papers
Water has always played an important part in societies. It has created and damaged, also threatened and saved societies throughout their existence. Its absence has done the same. Our rivers and seas contain evidence of this history and contain important
Martijn R. Manders
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Legal Status of Sunken State Vessels and Warships under the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī, 2014
The convention adopted in UNESCO on protection of underwater cultural heritage prescribed that the sunken state vessels and warships, whether regarded as cultural heritage or otherwise, shall remain under exclusive sovereignty of the flag state, unless ...
Mohammad Habibi Majandeh, Mahdi Abdolmaleki   +1 more
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Optimising the Detection of Southern Toadlets (Pseudophryne semimarmorata): A Comparative Study of eDNA and Conventional Survey Methods

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 36, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Accurate and reliable monitoring of amphibians is essential for informing their conservation. Pseudophryne semimarmorata (southern toadlet) is a species of endangered brood frog with a largely terrestrial life history that has experienced widespread decline across southern Australia.
Elizabeth Hamshaw, William K. Steele, Rhys A. Coleman, Ryan M. Burrows   +3 more
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Yulendji Bunwurrung Walagunh With Western Science: Ecological Insights, Emerging Research Questions and Future Directions From Bunurong Stories of Marine Mammals

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.
Indigenous Knowledge systems contain deep, place‐based ecological insights developed over generations but remain underrepresented in biodiversity assessments and conservation planning. This study explores yulendji Bunwurrung (Bunurong knowledge) through five Stories shared by a Bunurong Elder, using thematic analysis and comparison with contemporary ...
Jemima Beddoe, Gail Kunwarra Dawson, Jeff Shimeta, Kate Robb   +3 more
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Assessing the Vulnerability of an Inuit Archaeological Site in a Changing Periglacial Environment: A Novel Multimethod Geophysical Approach in Arctic Geoarchaeology

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 620-632, August 2026.
ABSTRACT With northern regions warming at twice the global rate, assessing the state of archaeological sites in these areas is critically important. In this study, we used a multimethod geophysical approach (ERT, GPR, and EMI) to characterize the current geocryological conditions of an Inuit archaeological site on South Aulatsivik Island (Labrador ...
Rachel Labrie, Dominique Todisco, Najat Bhiry, Cécile Finco, Héloïg Barbel Le Page, Armelle Couillet   +5 more
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The Warship Schleswig-Holstein: History, Cultural Value and Legal Status

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2011
The current paper looks into the issues connected with underwater cultural heritage in Estonia and deals with its legal and physical protection. The report discusses the topic of what we actually mean by underwater heritage, what are the threats in terms
Maili Roio
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Melatonin seed priming: A climate‐smart, green strategy to enhance abiotic stress tolerance in plants

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, Volume 68, Issue 8, Page 2942-2975, August 2026.
This review synthesizes how melatonin seed priming preconditions seeds to enhance tolerance against diverse abiotic stresses. It highlights the underlying mechanisms and proposes an integrative roadmap of advanced molecular and breeding tools to design next‐generation, stress‐smart plants.
Ali Raza, Yiran Li, Chunli Guo, Erna Karalija, Evgenios Agathokleous, Meng Jiang, Jie Zhou, Vasileios Fotopoulos, Zhangli Hu   +8 more
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3D Reconstruction of Underwater Shipwrecks: 3D Gaussian Splatting and Structure from Motion for the Melania shipwreck [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Underwater cultural heritage documentation presents significant challenges due to optical distortions inherent to aquatic environments. This study presents a dual approach for 3D reconstruction of underwater environments using two image-based 3D ...
D. Billi, V. Croce, A. Piemonte, G. Caroti   +3 more
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Advanced Technologies for Maritime and Underwater Archaeology—2nd Edition

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Underwater cultural heritage (UCH) is one of the richest and most vulnerable records of humankind’s past [...]
Javier Prieto, Fabio Bruno, Antonio Lagudi, Michela Ricca, Mauro Francesco La Russa, George Papatheodorou, Nikola Mišković   +6 more
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Indigenous Underwater Cultural Heritage Legislation in Australia: Still Waters?

Heritage
The article examines possible amendments to the Australian legislative regime regulating and protecting Indigenous cultural heritage in an offshore, including underwater, context.
Matthew Storey
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