This paper addresses the trade-off between unfavourable air pollution levels and favourable weather conditions for selecting a date for the staging of an outdoor event. For an event date that has been fixed, it presents a personal preference-based data-driven decision framework for individual...

"Sustaning Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change is a two-part text bringing together the latest research in soil science and climatology and the ethical, political and social issues surrounding the stewardship of this vital resource. Chapters include scientific studies on...

In what are now the warm deserts of the American Southwest, direct effects of changing climate on plant distributions are typically viewed as the principal driver of vegetation changes that followed the late Pleistocene-Holocene transition (LPH). However, at a semi-arid site in the eastern...

Greenhouse farming is a major source of plastic contamination in agricultural soils because it is characterized by the high production of plastic films that pollute agricultural farmlands with macroplastics and microplastics. Particularly, microplastics can penetrate the agricultural soil and...