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Protected areas play a critical role in biodiversity conservation, but they are increasingly threatened by poaching. This study provides the first long-term analysis of poaching trends and law enforcement effectiveness i...

Grazing by domestic livestock in the Caldenal rangelands has been threatening the ecological balance of this unique biome located in the semiarid zone of central Argentina. The aim of this review was to describe and expl...

A política de importar água de bacias cada vez mais distantes para satisfazer o crescimento da demanda teve início há mais de dois mil com os romanos, dando origem aos seus famosos aquedutos. Esse é o "velho paradig...

Abstract The Leschenault’s rousette (Rousettus leschenaultii) represents a medium-sized bat of the genus Rousettus that feeds on fruits or flowers, mainly distributed in Southeast Asia. Here, we generated a chromosome-...

En el centro-sur de la región semiárida pampeana, laagricultura extensiva enfrenta condiciones adversas comodéficits hídricos frecuentes y suelos frágiles, pobres enmateria orgánica. Prácticas como la captación d...

Efforts to conserve fuel oil (BBM) promoted by the Indonesian government and many other countries are motivated by the fact that fossil fuel availability has decreased and environmental pollution continues to worsen. Str...

Societal and political voices call for stronger environmental protection, biodiversity conservation, and reduced pesticide use. Integrating digital farming technologies into farming systems like strip intercropping offer...

Italian historic centres face critical challenges balancing heritage conservation with contemporary needs, particularly in regions like Calabria where smaller settlements experience depopulation, decay, and inadequate se...

This study investigates the contribution of the Mirt Improved Cookstove (ICS) on women's empowerment in Gedeb Asassa woreda, focusing on the role of RBF in promoting sustainable cooking technologies. Data from household ...

Field measurements of the Malvinas Current (MC) velocity distribution were performed at the western slope of the Argentine Basin in the South Atlantic Ocean between 47° and 43°S including several sections across the cu...

ABSTRACT ‘The climate emergency is also a health emergency’ (England 2024). Climate change directly impacts the health of the human population through events such as earthquakes, flooding, heatwaves and drought, whi...

All industrial products are destined to be museum someday. This means that industrial products are cultural property. When a cultural property is lost, society as a whole is damaged. However, if cultural properties take ...

Squash landraces (Cucurbita maxima) are maintained by small farmers as a major nutritional food. Twenty seven of these landraces were collected in Argentinian Andean Valleys and morphologically characterized. Genetic div...

Humanity is on a deeply unsustainable trajectory. We are exceeding planetary boundaries and unlikely to meet many international sustainable development goals and global environmental targets. Until recently, there was no...

O monitoramento endócrino pela mensuração de metabólitos urinários e fecais de hormônios esteróides tem se mostrado uma alternativa viável na investigação da fisiologia reprodutiva e do estresse em uma grande v...

O artigo teve por objetivo analisar os custos de produção da soja, nos municípios de Santarém e Belterra, considerando que, este é um critério competitivo básico para determinar a eficiência operacional, bem como...

The technology of synthesis of inorganic binder material based on sodium tripolyphosphate Na5P3O10 and orthophosphoric acid has been developed. The sequence of physicochemical transformations in this system, as well as t...

Wind Power Plants (WPP) have great potential as an environmentally friendly renewable energy source. However, in its operations, WPP faces a number of challenges, especially related to monitoring, detection, and optimizi...

With the emerging trend of big data and internet-of-things, sensors with compact size, low cost and robust performance are highly desirable. Spectral imaging and spectral LIDAR systems enable measurement of spectral and ...

Fish diversity is often challenging due to its labor-intensive and time-consuming, particularly when it comes to detecting rare and endemic fishes in fast-flowing waters. Environmental DNA metabarcoding has emerged as a ...

The large-scale integrated hydrogen production model has become an important way to solve the problem of the “wind and solar curtailment” and promote the development of hydrogen energy industry. Whether it is pure wa...

Three types of livestock farming systems are identified in Andalusian dehesas using multivariate analysis. One of two conservationist systems, both applying sustainable management criteria, was detected in most of farms:...

Subjects / keywords: conservation biology, conservation technology, marine and freshwater conservation, landscape and ecosystem conservation, conservation policy; Science: Natural history (General): General. Including nature conservation, ge...