Impacts of Climate and Human Activities on Water Resources and Quality
Integrated Regional Assessment
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For the past several decades, climate change has been driving vegetation dynamics in arid regions worldwide. This study investigates vegetation dynamics and their links to climate from 1990 to 2020 in **njiang...
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Irrigation is a land management practice with major environmental impacts. However, global energy consumption and carbon emissions resulting from irrigation remain unknown. We assess the worldwide energy consu...
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Fire carbon emissions over Equatorial Asia (EQAS) play a critical role in the global carbon cycle. Most regional fire emissions (89.0%) occur in the dry season, but how changes in the dry-season length affect ...
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Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have been shown to play diverse biological functions in the progression of multiple diseases. However, the impacts of circRNAs on breast cancer (BC) progression remains unclear. Theref...
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Ecological security and sustainable utilization of water resources have become increasingly important focal areas in today’s conversation about water resource management. Ecological footprint models of water r...
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Water data are essential for monitoring, managing, modelling and projecting water resources. Yet despite such data—including water quantity, quality, demand and ecology—being extensively collected in China, it...
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Climate change will have an impact on not only flood magnitude but also on flood timing. This paper studies the shifting in flood timing at 6167 gauging stations from 1970 to 2010, globally. The shift in flood...
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Agricultural irrigation consumes most of the fresh water in the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), directly affecting water resource management and allocation. Irrigation water demand is a key component ...
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This article has been retracted. Please see the Retraction Notice for more detail: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12943-019-0981-7.
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Surface ozone (O3) is an oxidizing gaseous pollutant; long-term exposure to high O3 concentrations adversely affects human health. Based on daily surface O3 concentration data, the spatiotemporal characteristics ...
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Water is essential for human activities and economic development, and the water environment significantly influences ecological balance and global climate. China and Southeast Asia are the most populous areas ...
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Based on the Gini-coefficients, this study has presented an analysis of the impacts of anthropogenic forcing on the temporal inequality (i.e., increase in unevenness or disparity) of precipitation amounts (PRC...
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Extreme precipitation events exhibit an increasing trend for both the frequency and magnitude on global and regional scales and it has already proven the impact of man-made global warming on the extreme precip...
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Breast cancer is the major cause of cancer death worldwide in women. Patients with metastasis have poor prognosis and the mechanisms of breast cancer metastasis are not completely understood. Long non-coding R...
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The accurate simulation and prediction of runoff in alpine glaciated watersheds is of increasing importance for the comprehensive management and utilization of water resources. In this study, long short-term m...
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This study was conducted to establish and validate a non-contrast T1 map–based radiomic nomogram for predicting major adverse cardiac events (MACEs) in patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infar...
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To investigate the potential effect of intracoronary administration of the glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor tirofiban on the microvascular obstruction (MVO) assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging ...
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In recent decades, extreme precipitation events have increased in frequency and magnitude over the world under climate change, causing more water-related disasters such as floods, droughts, tropical cyclones, ...