Author(s): Ahmed Dar A; Chen Z; Sardar MF; An C;

Microplastics (MPs) pollution is an emerging environmental health concern, impacting soil, plants, animals, and humans through their entry into the food chain via bioaccumulation. Human activities such as improper solid waste dumping are significant sources ...

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Author(s): Dar AA; Chen Z; Rodríguez-Rodríguez S; Haghighat F; González-Rosales B;

Assessing the impact of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on agricultural soils is crucial for ensuring food production sustainability in the global effort to combat climate change. The present study delves to comprehensively assess GHG emissions in Cuba's ...

Article GUID: 38295640

Author(s): Kraemer SA; Ramachandran A; Onana VE; Li WKW; Walsh DA;

Climate change is profoundly impacting the Arctic, leading to a loss of multiyear sea ice and a warmer, fresher upper Arctic Ocean. The response of microbial communities to these climate-mediated changes is largely unknown. Here, we document the interannual ...

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Author(s): Gallagher BK; Fraser DJ;

Predicting the persistence of species under climate change is an increasingly important objective in ecological research and management. However, biotic and abiotic heterogeneity can drive asynchrony in population responses at small spatial scales, complica ...

Article GUID: 38071739

Author(s): Dubé C; Morin AJS; Olivier E; Gilbert W; Tracey D; Craven RG; Maïano C;

This study investigated how the school experiences and personal characteristics of youth with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) contribute to their longitudinal trajectories of anxiety. To this end, we relied on a sample of 390 youth with mild (48.2%) to moder ...

Article GUID: 37898583

Author(s): Shu C; Gaur A; Wang L; Lacasse MA;

The heatwave event to which the Ontario-Quebec area was subjected in 2018 resulted in significant morbidity and mortality. In this study, an investigation was conducted on how this heatwave affected the respective urban heat islands (UHIs) in Montreal and O ...

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Author(s): Sales LP; Pires MM;

Refugia-based conservation strategies offer long-term effectiveness and minimize uncertainty on strategies for climate change adaptation. Here, we use distribution modelling to identify climate change refugia for 617 terrestrial mammals and quantify the rol ...

Article GUID: 36919472

Author(s): Diele Viegas LM; Sales L; Hipólito J; Amorim C; Johnson de Pereira E; Ferreira P; Folta C; Ferrante L; Fearnside P; Mendes Malhado AC; Frede ...

Background: Terrestrial biomes in South America are likely to experience a persistent increase in environmental temperature, possibly combined with moisture reduction due to climat ...

Article GUID: 36312759

Author(s): Garard J; Wood SLR; Sabet-Kassouf N; Ventimiglia A; Matthews HD; Ubalijoro É; Chaudhari K; Ivanova M; Luers AL; ...

The use of digital tracking of individuals throughout the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic renewed societal debates on the efficacy and ethics of digital surveillance to mitigate collective cri ...

Article GUID: 36128017

Author(s): Bjørn A; Tilsted JP; Addas A; Lloyd SM;

Purpose of review: Companies increasingly set science-based targets (SBTs) for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We review literature on SBTs to understand their potential for aligning corporate emissions with the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement. ...

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Author(s): Nazemi A; Jiwa S; Hatami S;

We present an integrated data portal and retrieval system for various variable related to hydrology and cryosphere of Québec, named Cold Region Data Accessibility Portal for Québec (CRDAP-QC). The raw data with which this integrated platform is built are pu ...

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