Survey on the presence of floating microplastics, trace metals and metalloids in seawater from Southern Italy to the United States of America by Elisabetta Morici, Gaetano Cammilleri, Sergio Scirè, Francesco Paolo Bonomo, Luigi Tranchina, Francesca Terracina, Paola Galluzzo, Vincenzo Ferrantelli, Vincenzo Paolo Monteverde, Francesco Giuseppe Galluzzo, Sergio Davì, Mariano Licciardi, Salvatore Dara

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Filling the Atlantic coastal tree-ring reconstruction gap: A 195-year record of growing season discharge of the Sainte-Anne River, Gaspésie, Québec, Canada by A.V. Pace, J.-M. St-Jacques, D.D. Noel, G. Fortin

“…Study region: We present a coastal river reconstruction between the Hudson River and north-central Québec, filling a substantial hiatus between 41° N and 53° N along the Atlantic North American margin, and adding to the four existing Atlantic coastal river basins with reconstructions. …”
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Cold War as Social Conflict, Iron Curtains and Application of Dѐtente Policy as Cold War Concept by Effiong Ekpo, Udeoji Ebele Angela

“… This paper is to evaluate the peculiarity of iron curtain that was to fortified borders in central Europe, because it was not used to describe similar border between communist and capitalist states basis. During the cold war iron curtain received prominence, why though it describe the boundary that separate the Warsaw Pact countries from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation NATO countries from the beginning to the end of the cold war (1945- 1991). …”
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Revisiting harmful algal blooms in India through a global lens: An integrated framework for enhanced research and monitoring by Aditya R. Nayak, Srinivas Kolluru, Aloke Kumar, Punyasloke Bhadury

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PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES OF RESCUING THE SHRINKING LAKE CHAD THROUGH THE UNITED NATIONS’ GREEN CLIMATE FUND by DAIYABU HASSAN MUHAMMAD

“…Some studies have estimated that if the current trend continued, the Lake could disappear in the next few decades. From the 1980s, attempts have been made by the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) to rescue the shrinking Lake. …”
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The compressive strength development and pH of cement mortars incorporating high volume supplementary cementitious materials under accelerated curing by Sumra Yousuf, Muhammad Rizwan, Belal Alsubari, Mustabshirha Gul, Muhammad Mahmood Ali, Muhammad Nasir Bashir, Abid Latif

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Empirical estimation of saturated soil-paste electrical conductivity in the EU using pedotransfer functions and Quantile Regression Forests: A mapping approach based on LUCAS topso... by Calogero Schillaci, Simone Scarpa, Felipe Yunta, Aldo Lipani, Fernando Visconti, Gábor Szatmári, Kitti Balog, Triven Koganti, Mogens Greve, Giulia Bondi, Georgios Kargas, Paraskevi Londra, Fuat Kaya, Giuseppe Lo Papa, Panos Panagos, Luca Montanarella, Arwyn Jones

“…Soil Electrical conductivity (EC) is a measure of the ability of soil to conduct an electric current, which is primarily influenced by the concentration of soluble salts in the soil solution that takes place principally through water-filled pores. Ions (Ca2+, Mg 2+, K +, Na +, and NH 4+, SO42-, Cl-, NO3–, and HCO3–) from soluble salts dissolved in soil water carry electrical charges and conduct the electrical current. …”
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Desposesión de vivienda y turistificación en Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canarias-España): los desahucios a inquilinos en el barrio de El Toscal by Juan Samuel García-Hernández, Alejandro Armas-Díaz, Mª del Carmen Díaz-Rodríguez

“…Con una metodología mixta, que combina la información sobre desalojos de la base de datos Atlante del Consejo General del Poder Judicial (CGPJ) y la obtenida a partir de entrevistas semiestructuradas, se indaga la entidad que alcanzan los desahucios en el centro urbano y su vinculación con el desplazamiento de las clases populares en los sectores donde el uso turístico y vacacional de la vivienda se ha extendido. …”
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