In addition to carbon dioxide, it is becoming increasingly clear that there are numerous other potent agents of anthropogenic forcing (e.g. methane, ozone, black carbon) at work in the climate system today. The typical ethical framing of climate change has not yet accommodated this complexity. In addition, geoengineering has often been presented as a Plan B that would simply counter unintention...

Obtain critical sound use, behavioral ecology, and fine-scale habitat information of two pelagic species of odontocete cetaceans which inhabit regions of significant U.S. Naval operations and may be impacted by coincident Naval training activities. The goal is to establish baseline acoustics, behavior and ecology of these species to predict and mitigate potential human impacts. Information gain...

Precise deformation monitoring associated with anthropogenic activities plays a key role for security aspects, damage control and implementing appropriate hazard mitigation measures. In this study, we use observations from high-resolution TerraSAR-X imagery to investigate surface deformation related to two case studies in Germany: the first one is the CO2 storage pilot site in Ketzin and the se...

Two core samples were collected in order to assess the textual characteristics and elemental distribution of the sediments, from the lagoonal environment of Pullivasal and Kurusadai island, Gulf of Mannar, Southeast coast of India. The distribution of the organic matter and calcium carbonate is chiefly controlled by the coral debris, shell fragments and mangrove litters. The elemental distribut...

Dioxins are a group of anthropogenic chemical compounds created as unintended by-products through a number of activities including: combustion, certain types of chemical manufacture, chlorine bleaching of pulp and paper, and other industrial processes. Dioxins are produced in very small quantities compared to other pollutants; however, because this family of compounds are thought to be highly t...

River flow regimes influence ecologic, cultural, social, aesthetic, and economic values. Detecting changes in river flows attributing their causes is important but challenging due to the combined of climate relevant local activities, lack data on water abstraction, drainage modification or land use management. This study assessed degree which trends could be attributed versus anthropogenic acti...