Perceived value, awe, and place attachment: Influencing tourists' environmentally responsible behavior in desert tourism
August 2025
This study explores the impact of perceived value, awe, and place attachment on tourists' environmentally responsible behavior (ERB) in desert tourism contexts, using the Singing Sands Mountain and...
Effect of salinization on soil properties and mechanisms beneficial to microorganisms in salinized soil remediation–a review
June 2024
Salinized soil is an important reserved arable land resource in China. The management and utilization of salinized soil can safeguard the current size of arable land and a stable grain yield. Salt accumulation...
Influence of river vegetation on sediment transport and erosion mitigation: A review
Available online 18 July 2025
Natural river systems are essential for conveying water, sediments, and organic material from upstream catchments to downstream reaches. One of the key processes influencing channel morphology is bedload...
Inequality of rural residents’ income in China since the targeted poverty alleviation strategy: New trends, causes, and policy implications
August 2024
Poverty and income inequality are problems faced by many countries including China. Since the implementation of Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA), absolute poverty has been eradicated, meanwhile, Chinese...
Impact of meteorological factors and ventilation coefficient on diurnal and seasonal variations of tropospheric ozone in Bangalore
December 2025
The reported study examines the diurnal and seasonal variations of tropospheric ozone and its precursors in Bangalore, India, from January to December 2020, and explores the impact of meteorological...
Agroecology in Action: Cross-Country Spatial Insights on Land Degradation, Soil Productivity, and Carbon Sequestration
Available online 8 February 2026
Land degradation poses a critical threat to global food security and ecosystem sustainability, with conventional agricultural practices exacerbating soil erosion, biodiversity loss, and carbon emissions....
Large-scale Surface Subsidence Monitoring for Permafrost Degradation along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway Corridor Using SBAS-InSAR and Machine Learning
Available online 6 October 2025
Continuous permafrost degradation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP), driven by climate warming, and intensified by human activities such as highway construction, has triggered widespread surface subsidence....
Spatiotemporal analysis of meteorological drought in an arid region of the Indian desert using Standardized Precipitation Index
Available online 6 February 2026
Droughts are an environmental hazard that disrupts the hydrological system and ecological balance around the globe. Arid and semi-arid regions are facing issues related to socioeconomic stability and...
Extracting water body data based on SDWI and threshold segmentation: A case study in permafrost area surrounding Salt Lake in Hoh Xil, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China
August 2023
There are a large number of lakes, rivers, and other natural water bodies distributed in the permafrost area of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). The changes in water bodies will affect the distribution...
Microplastics in landfast sea ice of Alaskan Arctic: Characteristics and potential sources
April 2025
Regarding the rapid shrinkage of the Arctic cryosphere, sea ice plays a significant role in the temporal storage, transport, and release of microplastics (an emergent pollutant) among atmospheric, aquatic,...
Permafrost roadbed protection and potential application of lightweight cellular concrete as an eco–friendly protection technology in China: A review
Available online 2 February 2026
Road construction in frozen areas faces significant challenges due to frost heaving, thaw settlement, and permafrost degradation, which compromise infrastructure stability and longevity. Traditional...
Identifying Flood Events and Causes Based on Their Hydrograph Characteristics
Available online 11 February 2026
In glacierized river basins, floods having disaster-causing ability are usually significantly different in magnitudes of flood peaks and the speeds and magnitudes of runoff increase during flood events...
Comparative evaluation of reanalysis-derived temperature profiles and low-level temperature inversion on the Tibetan Plateau
Available online 5 September 2025
This research assesses four reanalysis datasets−ERA5, MERRA-2, JRA-55, and CRA40−utilizing radiosonde observations from seven stations collected between 2010 and 2021. The analysis differentiates between...
Spatiotemporal Variations and Influencing Factors of Vegetation NDVI in Five Major Cities of Northwest China
Available online 21 January 2026
Northwestern China is a region highly sensitive to environmental changes, where variations in vegetation cover directly reflect the local ecological conditions. The Normalized Difference Vegetation...
Spatiotemporal distribution of seasonal snow density in the Northern Hemisphere based on in situ observation
June 2025
The snow density is a fundamental variable of the snow physical evolution processes, which can reflect the snowpack condition due to the thermal and gravitational compaction. Snow density is a bridge...
Impact of aerosols on the physical parameters of cloud and precipitation processes in the eastern slope region of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau
Available online 3 October 2025
Aerosols have a complex and uncertain impact on clouds and precipitation. The uneven spatial-temporal distribution of aerosol concentrations caused by the complex mountain and basin terrain of the eastern...
A nonlinear viscoelastic-plastic creep constitutive model of soil-rock mixture-concrete interface under freeze-thaw cycles
December 2025
The interface between concrete and soil-rock mixture (SRM-concrete interface) under freeze-thaw cycles is very prone to creep damage, threatening the long-term stability of the superstructure in cold...
Predicting the unfrozen water content in unsaturated frozen soils using the electrical conductivity method
December 2025
Determination of the unfrozen water and ice contents in frozen soils is a critical issue in cold region geotechnics. The electrical conductivity method has been adopted in both laboratory and in-situ...
Assessing the distributional response of Sphagnum mosses to climate change in Hengduan Mountains
Available online 13 September 2025
Climate change is profoundly reshaping species distributions, especially for ecologically important taxa like Sphagnum, which represent a key functional group responsible for carbon sequestration function...
Study on mechanical properties and microstructural changes of lithium slag concrete under freeze-thaw cycles
Available online 13 December 2025
Concrete production is responsible for high CO2 emissions due to extensive cement use, making the resource-efficient utilization of industrial by-products an important research direction. Lithium slag...
The Chinese Glacier inventory of Xinjiang in 2020 (CGI-XJ2020): Compilation, features and primary results
October 2025
Based on China's high-resolution satellite imagery series (2 m resolution), the Chinese Glacier Inventory of Xinjiang in 2020 (CGI-XJ2020) was compiled, with 2020 as the baseline year. CGI-XJ2020 has...
Sediment Transport Dynamics of Barchan Dunes Formed by Coral Sand from the Xisha Islands, South China Sea: Insights from Water Tunnel Experiments
Available online 21 January 2026
Coral reefs in the South China Sea, which underpin coastal protection and serve as natural laboratories, are rapidly degrading under climate change and human pressures. Barchan dunes are key tracers...
Projected evolution of the Qiyi Glacier in the Qilian Mountains using the PyGEM with the calibration of glaciological mass balance
June 2025
Owing to glacial retreat and associated future runoff variations, major concerns have been raised over the sustainability of water resources in the Qilian Mountains. Based on the Python Glacier Evolution...
Glaciers and their changes based on Chinese glacier inventories in Ili River Basin, Xinjiang, northwestern China
October 2025
The Ili River is a typical transboundary river between China and Kazakhstan, with glaciers within its basin serving as a crucial solid water resource. Recently, we compiled the Chinese Glacier Inventory...
Compounding effects of human activities and climatic changes on coexistence of oasis-desert ecosystems: Prioritizing resilient decision-making for a riskier world
October 2023
Water-salt balance is critical for the stable coexistence of salt-affected and groundwater-fed oasis-desert ecosystems. Yet, a comprehensive investigation of how soil salinization and groundwater degradation...