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Food without fire: Environmental and nutritional impacts from a solar stove field experiment

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 108, Issue 4, Page 1121-1144, August 2026.
Abstract Over 80% of the population in rural Sub‐Saharan Africa relies on biomass cooking fuel, a substantial source of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. We use a field experiment in Zambia to investigate the impact of solar stoves on biomass fuel use and cooking habits.
Laura E. McCann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Of cables and threads

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 283-295, August 2026.
Abstract Over the past two decades, gondola lifts have become central to interventions in urban Latin America's auto‐constructed peripheries. As cable car urbanism reshapes the city's edge, it raises fundamental questions about the notion of the “urban fabric” as a sociomaterial practice, an epistemology, and a site of politics.
Federico Pérez Fernández
wiley   +1 more source

Urban vegetation change after a hundred years in a tropical city (San José de Costa Rica)

open access: yesRevista de Biología Tropical, 2010
Urban vegetation is of key importance because a large proportion of the human population lives in cities. Nevertheless, urban vegetation is understudied outside central Europe and particularly, little is known about the flora of tropical Asian, African ...
Julián Monge-Nájera   +1 more
doaj  

Informal supply chains of wild meat from rural Amazonia and food security in an urban center

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Iquitos, the most populated city in the Peruvian Amazon, is a hub in the regional supply chain of wild meat and supplies urban consumers. Studies on wild meat consumption have focused primarily on markets, limiting the scope of species considered to those that are economically valuable and potential inferences from those data.
Fiorella Briceño Huerta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

USO DO SOLO NO ENTORNO DO PARQUE NACIONAL DE BRASÍLIA: UMA ANÁLISE MULTITEMPORAL

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Cartografia, 2009
O Parque Nacional de Brasília - PNB - é uma Unidade de Conservação de proteção integral em área urbana pressionada pelo forte adensamento urbano da capital federal brasileira.
Cárita da Silva Sampaio
doaj  

Exploring legal‐ and health‐risk messaging to reduce demand for elephant skin

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) are poached for an illegal trade in their skins, which are used in traditional medicine in Africa and Asia. We explored whether messages about the legal and health risks of using elephant skin for medicinal purposes (stomach illness) could reduce such consumption.
Beilu Duan   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nota sobre la flora urbana de Albacete y su posible aprovechamiento didáctico

open access: yes, 1987
ESP
Castaño Fernández, Santiago   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Multi‐Model Ensembles in Ecosystem Modeling: Challenges and Best Practices for Decision‐Making

open access: yesGlobal Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 8, August 2026.
As ecosystem models increasingly inform environmental policy, markets, and climate‐related investments, this article highlights a critical but often overlooked issue: combining multiple models does not automatically make predictions more reliable.
Kaiyu Guan   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Políticas públicas e degradação ambiental em Itajaí, SC

open access: yesGeosul, 2002
O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as políticas públicas locais que afetam o meio ambiente no município catarinense de Itajaí. Este propósito será buscado mediante o exame da degradação ambiental que atinge a localidade do Saco da Fazenda, situada em ...
Ivo M Theis   +1 more
doaj  

Genetics of Flooding Tolerance in an F2 Miscanthus sacchariflorus ssp. lutarioriparius × M. sinensis Population

open access: yesGCB Bioenergy, Volume 18, Issue 8, August 2026.
An experiment to map flooding tolerance in Miscanthus ×giganteus was conducted. Two phenotyping protocols (A and B) and different pipelines to call SNPs were used. TASSEL‐GBSv2 resulted in a genetic map with smaller QTL intervals than the other maps.
D. Zerpa‐Catanho   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

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