This research analyzes media coverage of government approaches to climate-health policy across 4 countries (USA, UK, Pakistan, and India) from 2015-2024, examining how newspapers portray governmental responses to climate change's health implications.

This study proposes an iterative planning algorithm for renewable energy systems that tests solutions against varying weather conditions to ensure reliability during extreme periods, showing that achieving robustness slightly increases costs but avoids significant supply shortfalls seen in non-robust systems.

This study examines the consistency of Korea’s clean energy policies with Paris-compliant trajectories derived from the IPCC AR6 scenario database.

Access to safe drinking water is a fundamental determinant of global health. In this umbrella review, we synthesized evidence from 25 systematic reviews and meta-analyses, covering 158 outcomes, to assess health risks and intervention effectiveness (PROSPERO: CRD420251001778).

Physical, chemical weathering and volcanic eruptions release heavy metals into soils and surface waters naturally. Contaminants from anthropogenic sources originated from industrial and municipality waste substantially modify and increase their contributions. They are then absorbed by fish gills, amphipod cuticles, and other sensitive organs of aquatic creatures. This article discusses the essences on the determination, potential and plausible factors of trophic transfer and biomagnification of environmental contaminants particularly heavy metals across aquatic ecosystem.

In this study, we used different concentrations of H3PO4 to activate pristine biochar (BC) derived from cow dung (BC and BC modified with phosphoric acid at concentrations of 10% (10P-BC), 30% (30P-BC), and 50% (50P-BC)) in order to obtain cheap, high-performance adsorbents.

Additives may be present in amounts higher than 50% within plastic objects. Additives in plastics can be gradually released from microplastics (MPs) into the aquatic environment during their aging and fragmentation because most of them do not chemically react with the polymers. Some are known to be hazardous substances, which can cause toxicity effects on organisms and pose ecological risks.

Excessive withdrawal and contamination of naturally occurring freshwater reserves have led to a global water crisis exacerbated by climate change. Desalination can augment freshwater supply but has an associated energy, environmental, and economic cost. Distributed systems coupled with renewable energy have the potential to make clean water affordable, accessible, and sustainable.

Many anthropogenic chemicals now exist in our environment, but we still have insufficient information about their risks or impacts. There is an urgent need to increase the scale of capability to assess this planetary crisis. Here, we focus on important opportunities for cooperative and intersectional analytical and social science solutions.

Knowledge of ecosystem-size influences on river populations and communities is integral to the balancing of human and environmental needs for water. The multiple dimensions of dendritic river networks complicate understanding of ecosystem-size influences, but could be resolved by the development of scaling relationships. We highlight the importance of physical constraints limiting predator body sizes, movements, and population sizes in small rivers, and where river contraction limits space or creates stressful conditions affecting community stability and food webs.