Naturwissenschaften (44 Artikel)

The Special Issue (SI) "Recent Advances in GPR Imaging" offers an up-to-date overview of state-of-the-art research activities dealing with the development of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technolo...

Above ground biomass has been listed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as one of the five most prominent, visible, and dynamic terrestrial carbon pools. The increased awareness of th...

Precipitation is a well-recognized pillar in global water and energy balances. An accurate and timely understanding of its characteristics at the global, regional, and local scales is indispensable...

Most freshwater aquatic ecosystems have focused on open-water conditions, during spring, summer, and autumn. Studies in winter during ice-covered conditions are sparse due to the logistic difficult...

Human needs like food and clean water are directly related to good maintenance of healthy and productive soils. A good understanding of human impact on the natural environment is therefore necessar...

In naher Zukunft werden weltweit voraussichtlich zwei von drei Menschen in Städten leben. Die Auswirkungen der fortschreitenden Urbanisierung sowie des Klimawandels stellen die Stadtbewohner sowie ...

Our planet is undergoing radical environmental and social changes. Sustainability has now been put into question by, for example, our consumption patterns, loss of biodiversity, depletion of resour...

Sustainability covers environmental, social and economic dimensions, and requires a multi-disciplinary approach in order to examine, explore and critically engage with issues and advances in its re...

The Close Linkage between Nutrition and Environment through Biodiversity and Sustainability: Local Foods, Traditional Recipes, and Sustainable Diets" is focused on the close correlation between the...

Earthquake-tsunamis, including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2011 T?hoku Tsunami in Japan, serve as tragic reminders that such waves pose a major natural hazard. Landslide-tsunamis, includi...

The combination of global warming and urban sprawl is the origin of the most hazardous climate change effect detected at urban level: Urban Heat Island, representing the urban overheating respect t...

Recently, growing interest in the use of remote sensing imagery has appeared to provide synoptic maps of water quality parameters in coastal and inner water ecosystems;, monitoring of complex land ...

The connections between water, food and energy are currently being discussed more than ever before, thanks to the recently emerged concept of the water-energy-food security nexus. Various organizat...

Tim Flannery, geboren 1956 in Melbourne, lebt als Wissenschaftler, Forscher und Umweltschützer in Australien. Als Zoologe hat er mehr als dreißig neue Säugetierarten entdeckt. Tim Flannery ist Auto...