Preprints
There are 6214 Preprints listed.
Technical Brief: Uncovering Sub-Regional Drivers of Deforestation in the Amazon: A Tool for Targeted Solutions
Published: 2025-11-20
Subjects: Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources and Conservation, Sustainability
This technical brief provides the first region-wide analysis of the commodity-specific agricultural drivers of deforestation across the Amazon region at a sub-national level, offering insights to inform more effective and equitable conservation policy. We achieve this by integrating sub-national agricultural production statistics with satellite data on land use and commodity production for each [...]
Long-term incubations reveal geochemical controls on wood biomass preservation at the anoxic sediment-water interface
Published: 2025-11-20
Subjects: Life Sciences
Ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategies increasingly consider biomass burial in anoxic marine basins as a pathway for long-term carbon storage. To evaluate its stability and environmental impact, we conducted 14-month bottle incubations testing three configurations of terrestrial wood under anoxic conditions: suspended in the water column, placed on the sediment surface, and buried [...]
Access to Monitoring Data Reduces Methane Intensity at Operational Oil and Gas Facilities
Published: 2025-11-20
Subjects: Environmental Monitoring, Oil, Gas, and Energy
Methane intensity is defined as methane gas emitted to the atmosphere per oil and gas product throughput at various steps in the supply chain. It is the standard metric used by industry stakeholders to assess methane emissions performance. Many studies have assessed the capabilities of methane emission measurement systems, but no studies have quantified the effect on methane intensity of oil and [...]
A systematic review of microplastic pollution in rivers across Asia
Published: 2025-11-20
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Microplastics are widely distributed in the aquatic ecosystem globally. They pose potential risks and harm to the ecosystem and human health. Contamination of river environments by microplastics has raised concern due to its negative effect on the aquatic system. Asian rivers serve the world’s most populous continent, encompassing many developing countries experiencing rapid development and [...]
Attention-Based Deep Learning for Runoff Forecasting: Evaluating the Temporal Fusion Transformer Against Traditional Machine Learning Models
Published: 2025-11-20
Subjects: Engineering, Life Sciences
Reliable runoff forecasting is critical for water management and flood preparedness in Nepal’s steep, data-scarce catchments. Traditional models such as SWAT provide process insights but demand extensive calibration and detailed inputs often unavailable in such regions. Recent advances in attentionbased deep learning offer new opportunities to capture temporal dependencies with improved [...]
Can Carbon Information Disclosure Enhance Firms' New Quality Productivity? Evidence from Empirical Analysis of Chinese Listed Companies
Published: 2025-11-20
Subjects: International and Area Studies
As global efforts to tackle climate change deepen, the role of carbon information disclosure in enhancing the new quality productivity of enterprises has attracted growing attention. This paper, using data from Chinese listed companies between 2015 and 2023, investigates the effect of carbon information disclosure on new quality productivity in enterprises and the mechanisms behind it. The [...]
Agrivoltaics can reduce heat exposure for farmworkers
Published: 2025-11-20
Subjects: Agriculture
Heat exposure endangers over 850 million farmworkers, with agricultural labor projected to account for 60% of heat-related working-hour losses by 2030. Agrivoltaic systems, which integrate solar panels with agriculture, may reduce this risk by modifying the thermal environment farmworkers operate within, yet their impact on heat exposure remains unquantified. We evaluate wet bulb globe [...]
Where is the Evidence? A Global Systematic Review of Sanitation System Resilience
Published: 2025-11-20
Subjects: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Despite sustained efforts over several decades, no region is projected to achieve universal sanitation access by 2030, according to international monitoring frameworks. Climate change is increasingly disrupting human and ecological systems, in turn deepening existing inequalities in access to essential services, including sanitation. Coupled with broader socio-economic and political dynamics, [...]
Thermal Power and Climate Change: A Data-Driven Analysis of Cause and Effect, 1800-2100
Published: 2025-11-20
Subjects: Education, Engineering, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Since 2020, global politics have shifted dramatically to the right—most notably in Europe and the United States. By 2024, this rightward turn in the U.S. reached its culmination with the open denial of climate change, the defunding of clean energy initiatives, and a wholesale dismissal of science—especially climate science. Key domestic and international institutions such as NOAA, NASA, the U.S. [...]
Power play: A multi-criteria analysis of present and future battery technologies
Published: 2025-11-20
Subjects: Engineering
Climate Change Perceptions and Water Security: Evidence from Low-Income Urban Communities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Published: 2025-11-19
Subjects: Public Health
Background Water scarcity is being exacerbated by climate change, especially in low- and middle-income countries with limited adaptation capacity. Methods Between June and October 2023, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of 364 households in three districts of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. We used structured questionnaires to evaluate the household's demographic characteristics, knowledge of [...]
Anthropogenic Environmental Change and Sexual and Reproductive Health in Southeast Asia: A Scoping Review
Published: 2025-11-18
Subjects: Public Health
While often neglected, sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a significant dimension of the health implications of global anthropogenic environmental change, including climate change. However, literature on the topic is scarce and largely neglects low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and regions such as Southeast Asia. We thus aimed to synthesise the literature connecting anthropogenic [...]
Interplay between subsidence and sediment flux in the filling of the North Pyrenean retro-foreland basin during the Eocene (Corbières, France)
Published: 2025-11-18
Subjects: Earth Sciences
External forcings, such as climate and tectonics, influence sedimentary basin fills. In turn, sedimentary archives provide key information on variations in accommodation and sediment flux over time, which record paleoclimate and tectonic conditions. However, the impacts of accommodation and flux on sedimentation must be disentangled before understanding their specific influence on surface [...]
The slip distributions of the 1952 and 2025 Kamchatka earthquakes from tsunami waveforms recorded around the Pacific Ocean
Published: 2025-11-18
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Geophysics and Seismology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics
The July 2025 Kamchatka earthquake (Mw 8.8) generated Pacific-wide tsunamis. Inversion of 40 DART bottom pressure records around the Pacific Ocean revealed a large (~ 9 m) slip at 200 – 400 km southwest of the epicenter, closely matching the USGS finite fault model based on teleseismic data. In this region, a similarly large megathrust earthquake (M ~ 9) occurred in 1952. The tsunami waveforms [...]
Impact of weather and season on stored water contamination and infant diarrhea in climate-vulnerable, urban Mozambique
Published: 2025-11-18
Subjects: Public Health
Background: Diarrhea remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality for children under the age of five, despite reductions in its overall global burden in recent decades. However, climate change, and its associated meteorological conditions - heavy rainfall, temperature, flooding - has the potential to impede or reverse progress that has been made toward alleviating the burden of [...]