Introduction to Longevity Counties in China
25 July 2025
Insights into wind-driven heavy metal pollution and human health risk assessment in a typical lead-zinc mining area of northern China
25 July 2025
Long-term mining activities can result in the release of heavy metals into soil, ultimately posing a threat to human health. In arid and semi-arid regions, wind-driven transport of these toxic metals...
Occurrence, migration, and ecological risk assessment of Neonicotinoid insecticides in water and sediments of Dongting Lake, China
25 July 2025
Neonicotinoid insecticides (NEOs) have become an integral part of the global insecticide market due to their high efficiency and low toxicity. However, their environmental persistence has raised significant...
Introduction to the Bama renowned longevity county in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
25 July 2025
Mineral component of mineralizations in different types of breast lesions and their correlation with diseases
25 July 2025
Pathological mineralizations in breast lesions are closely associated with disease progression and serves as a critical diagnostic indicator. However, systematic understanding remains lacking regarding...
Fluorine distribution, health risk, and geological and anthropogenic controlling factors in central Guizhou Province, Southwest China
25 July 2025
Fluorine (F)-enriched soils, resulting from geogenic processes or superimposed by anthropogenic activities, have raised significant concerns due to their phytotoxicity and potential threats to human...
Chemical elements and human health from the perspective of “One Health”
25 July 2025
Human activities are closely related to geological environments or those influenced by geological factors, which can significantly impact human health. Previous studies have predominantly focused on...
LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating of dacite in the Sangthong Au mining area, Luang Prabang-Loei metallogenetic belt, SW Laos
25 April 2025
Tight sandstone diageneses, evolution, and controls on high-graded reservoirs in slope zones of foreland basins: A case study of the fourth Member of Xujiahe Formation, Tianfu gas field, Sichuan Basin
25 April 2025
The Triassic Xujiahe Formation in the slope zone of the Sichuan foreland basin is a new field of continental tight gas exploration in recent years. The fourth member of the Xujiahe Formation (Xu4 Member),...
Heavy metal pollution in water and soil and associated health risks in a tin mining region of Hunan Province, Central China
25 April 2025
To assess the effect of mining activity on heavy metal pollution and associated health risks in tin mining regions, water and soil sampling was conducted near a tin mining site in Hunan Province. The...
10910 m! China's first Ultra-Deep Well completed
25 April 2025
Mesozoic superposed orogenic systems in eastern China
25 April 2025
The Indosinian and Yanshanian orogenic movements are both important Mesozoic orogenies in eastern China. The resulted tectonic belts are neither products of the third stage of crustal evolution, as...
Timing, geometry, and kinematics of the Yilan-Yitong fault zone in the Northern Tan-Lu fault system of Northeast Asia
25 April 2025
The largest Tan-Lu active fault system in northeastern Asia, spans approximately 3500 km in length and varies in width from 10 km to 200 km. In 1668, an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.5 occurred in...
Distribution and role of fluorine in the aquatic ecosystem (mineral springs, groundwater, tributaries, Baikal water, and the Angara water source) of Lake Baikal, Russia
25 April 2025
Several conjugate components represent the aquatic ecosystem of Lake Baikal: Baikal water (surface and deep water), groundwater from boreholes, water of numerous Baikal tributaries, cold and hot mineral...
Accumulation process and potential of Jurassic tight sandstone oil and gas in Eastern Yangxia sag of Kuqa Depression
25 April 2025
The Jurassic tight sandstone oil and gas exploration and development in the eastern Yangxia Sag is a new field. To elucidate the origin, accumulation process and potential of tight oil and gas, the...
First discovery of Cretaceous tuffs in the Zhenyuan area, southwestern Ordos Basin, China: Constraints from zircon U-Pb dating
25 April 2025
Lithofacies palaeogeography, depositional model and shale gas potential evaluation in the O3-S1 Wufeng-Longmaxi Formation in the Sichuan Basin, China
25 April 2025
The black shales of Wufeng and Longmaxi Formation (Late Ordovician-Early Silurian period) in Sichuan Basin are the main strata for marine shale gas exploration, which have a yearly shale gas production...
Geology, mineralization and model of the giant Maoping carbonate-hosted Pb-Zn deposit (5 Mt), South China
25 April 2025
The giant Upper Yangtze Pb-Zn metallogenic province, also known as the Sichuan-Yunnan-Guizhou (SYG) Pb-Zn province hosting >500 carbonate-hosted epigenetic Pb-Zn deposits that contain >20 Mt Pb + Zn...
Contribution of groundwater carbon pools to atmospheric carbon sinks: A case study of the Yinchuan Basin, Northwest China
25 April 2025
Addressing global warming, a common change today, requires achieving peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality (also referred to as the dual carbon goals). Enhancing research on the carbon...
Landslide susceptibility assessment based on an interpretable coupled FR-RF model: A case study of Longyan City, Fujian Province, Southeast China
25 April 2025
To enhance the prediction accuracy of landslides in in Longyan City, China, this study developed a methodology for geologic hazard susceptibility assessment based on a coupled model composed of a Geographic...