10 September 2021

Independent validation of downscaled climate estimates from a coastal Alaska watershed using local historical weather journals

"This study makes use of long records in a data-scarce area to validate downscaled climate model data, an importante process before the model data is more widely used for other applications."

Graciela Raga, Handling Editor

10 August 2021

Disintegration half-life of biodegradable plastic films on different marine beach sediments

"Plastic pollution is a universal issue, and several options are constantly being researched such as, biodegradable plastics, bioplastics (or to avoid plastic altogether!). Current manuscript highlights one such approach to study a long term evaluation of disintegration of biodegradable plastic films in the seawater/beach sediment."

Sanket Joshi, Handling Editor

9 August 2021

The regulating effects and mechanism of biochar and maifanite on copper and cadmium in a polluted soil-Lolium perenne L. system

"The article measures how amendments to contaminated soils can decrease the availability of toxic metals to plants."

Melanie Kah, Handling Editor

4 August 2021

Towards an open and synergistic framework for mapping global land cover

"A novel and interesting algorithm to integrate currentglobal thematic land cover maps to derive a time series of 30 m general land cover maps."

Jingzhe Wang, Handling Editor

27 July 2021

A new HSI denoising method via interpolated block matching 3D and guided filter

"An interesting method for denoising Hyperspectral Images."

Lei Wang, Handling Editor

27 July 2021

Effect of modified pomace on copper migration via riverbank soil in southwest China

"The investigation describes a valuable strategy to mitigate environmental contamination by toxic metals using a modified residue (pomace)."

Marcia Marques, Handling Editor

27 July 2021

Distribution, source, water quality and health risk assessment of dissolved heavy metals in major rivers in Wuhan, China

"I believe that this is the most comprehensive report on contaminants in this part of the world and is thus important."

James Latimer, Handling Editor

21 July 2021

Leveraging the potential of nature to meet net zero greenhouse gas emissions in Washington State

"This article estimates the potential of natural climate solution pathways to reduce the net emissions of greenhouse gases and finds they are effective and mutually beneficial."

Xinfeng Wang, Handling Editor

14 July 2021

Conversion of alpine pastureland to artificial grassland altered CO₂ and N₂O emissions by decreasing C and N in different soil aggregates

"This study provides useful insights into the effects of land use changes on soil aggregate-associated carbon and nitrogen and greenhouse gas emissions."

Muhammad Riaz, Handling Editor

9 July 2021

Predicting temperature curve based on fast kNN local linear estimation of the conditional distribution function

"This paper will be of interest to researchers in the field of environmental statistics."

Jianhua Xu, Handling Editor