National antibiotic consumption is strongly related to the prevalence of antibiotic resistance across bacterial clades by Stilianos Louca

“…Summary: The impact of societal antibiotic consumption on the prevalence of antibiotic resistance across microbial taxa in natural environments has not yet been assessed at global scales. …”
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Integrating Nature-Based Solutions for Increased Resilience to Urban Flooding in the Climate Change Context by George Radu, Maria Ilinca Chevereșan, Sorin Perju, Alina Bărbulescu

“…The results demonstrate that the current stormwater systems struggle to meet the demands of increasing rainfall intensity and highlight how sustainable strategies can effectively address extreme weather challenges while contributing to the restoration of natural environments within the city. In the case of using ‘gray’ solutions, only 10–20% of the area affected by floods is reduced. …”
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Comprehensive Literature Review on Metal Nanoparticle for Enhanced Shelf Life of Mango Fruit by Yalew Yiblet, Indiris Abdu, Basaznew Belew

“…Many conventional preservation methods have drawbacks, including expensive production costs, short shelf lives, undesirable residues, and the incapacity to properly keep perishable fruits in their natural environments. Techniques for extending shelf life based on nanotechnology have the potential to get around these problems. …”
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Presenting a Geomorphological Conceptual Model of Construction of bridges in urban floodway- river valleys by Esmaiel Najafi, Amir Safari, Ezatoalah Ghavavati, Amir Karam

“…The results indicate the capability and application of geomorphology in modeling and optimal location and construction of bridges, in order to create more security and welfare of citizens, reduce costs and prevent financial and human losses due to the destruction and improper location of such structures in an urban floodway- river valleys and other natural environments. Also, this study, while enriching the literature of the field in question, has studied, explained, and conceptually modeled the role and application of geomorphology in the optimal location and construction of bridges in urban issues.  …”
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Assessing the potential impact of grasshopper outbreaks on Patagonian wetlands through mathematical modelling by Laura Soledad Serrano, Ana Laura Pietrantuono, María Fabiana Laguna, Mariana Weigandt, María Emilia Amadio, Valeria Fernández-Arhex

“…Conducting such studies is crucial for developing early warning strategies and promoting the conservation and management of natural environments.…”
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Community Use and Perceptions of Climate Shelters in Schoolyards in Barcelona by Marta Sanz-Mas, Marta Sanz-Mas, Xavier Continente, Xavier Continente, Xavier Continente, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo, Marc Marí-Dell’Olmo, María José López, María José López, María José López, María José López

“…Participants reported that shade provided coolness and comfort, vegetation offered pleasant and naturalized environments, and water features were enjoyed for their cooling capacity and play opportunities. …”
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Exploring sustaining embodied experience in the built environment: a case study of Seonyudo by Sanghee Lee

“…Findings uncover diverse narratives of embodied experiences, structured by five contextual design models: (1) Flow model, mapping information flow; (2) Sequential model, outlining experience-influencing elements; (3) Artifact model, identifying experience-amplifying mediums; (4) Spatial model, showing relationships between artificial and natural environments; and (5) Cultural model, highlighting environment types in cultural contexts. …”
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Challenges in nature-based health and therapy research and critical considerations for application in musculoskeletal health by Richard Doran-Sherlock, Payal Sood, Nicole Anne Struthers, Filip Maric

“…In addition, engaging with natural environments which are vulnerable to the entwinned threats of climate change and biodiversity collapse requires consideration of the effects of ecological disturbance and the underlying anthropocentric/utilitarian view of the natural world. …”
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A multi-source data-driven approach for navigation safety integrating computational intelligence and Bayesian networks by Xiaotong Qu, Chengbo Wang, Chengbo Wang

“…Ships often face various risks when sailing at sea, ranging from harsh natural environments to complex traffic conditions. To reduce the impact of these risks on ships and crews, this paper proposes a navigation risk assessment method that integrates computational intelligence (CI) techniques, such as fuzzy logic, with Bayesian networks (BNs) and utility theory. …”
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Experimental Investigation into the Influences of Weathering on the Mechanical Properties of Sedimentary Rocks by Xiaoshuang Li, Yingchun Li, Saisai Wu

“…In order to obtain the accurate and reliable mechanical parameters of the sedimentary rocks at different weathering grades, the extensive experimental programs including the Brazilian splitting test, uniaxial compression tests, and direct shear tests have been carried out on the specimens that exposed to the nature environments at different durations. The correlation between the weathering grades and mechanical parameters including uniaxial tensile strength, uniaxial compression strength, elastic modulus, Poisson’s ratio, cohesion, and friction coefficient was proposed. …”
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Insight into the phylogeny and antibiotic resistance of Pseudomonas spp. originating from soil of the Białowieża National Park in Northeastern Poland by Wioleta Lewandowska, Wioleta Lewandowska, Jacques Mahillon, Justyna Małgorzata Drewnowska, Izabela Swiecicka, Izabela Swiecicka

“…This unique forest without notable anthropogenic influence, provides excellent conditions for research of antibiotic resistance from the perspective of natural environments. The phylogeny trees obtained based on the nucleotide sequence of the 16S rRNA gene and gyrB gene grouped the isolates into clusters belonging to the Pseudomonas fluorescens, Pseudomonas koreensis, and Pseudomonas putida groups, originating from the P. fluorescens lineage. …”
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The non-indigenous dung beetle (Onthophagus nuchicornis) can effectively reproduce using the dung of indigenous eastern North American mammals by Alexe Indigo, Katelyn Stokes, Olivia Burchell, Paul Manning

“…Despite the significant body of research surrounding non-indigenous (and often invasive) dung beetles in agricultural contexts, there has been minimal study concerning the impact that these species may have on indigenous dung beetle populations in natural environments. Here we examine the possible impact of the introduced dung beetle Onthophagus nuchicornis on indigenous dung beetle populations via use of indigenous mammal dung. …”
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Gestão ambiental integrada na Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro: a avaliação de impactos cumulativos e sinérgicos entre cidades milionárias – o exemplo da baia de Sepetiba (RJ... by Augusto César Pinheiro da Silva, Andressa de Oliveira Spata, Marcelle da Silva Coelho Lima

“…In this context, Sepetiba Bay, located in the western boundary of the city of Rio de Janeiro, presents itself as one of the most emblematic natural environments in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro for a cumulative and synergic evaluation, in order to identify forms of environmental management that are focused on reducing the unequal use of collective natural resources and indispensable for the more equitable and orderly quality of life for millions of people, every day.…”
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Variable stressor exposure shapes fitness within and across generations by Marcus Lee

“…Overall, I demonstrate that the delivery of a stressor, not just its intensity, can have profound fitness consequences across generations, with important implications for seasonal succession of genotype–phenotype patterns in natural environments.…”
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Genetic Bioaugmentation‐Mediated Bioremediation of Terephthalate in Soil Microcosms Using an Engineered Environmental Plasmid by Alejandro Marquiegui – Alvaro, Anastasia Kottara, Micaela Chacón, Lisa Cliffe, Michael Brockhurst, Neil Dixon

“…ABSTRACT Harnessing in situ microbial communities to clean‐up polluted natural environments is a potentially efficient means of bioremediation, but often the necessary genes to breakdown pollutants are missing. …”
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DM-YOLO: improved YOLOv9 model for tomato leaf disease detection by Abudukelimu Abulizi, Junxiang Ye, Halidanmu Abudukelimu, Wenqiang Guo

“…In natural environments, tomato leaf disease detection faces many challenges, such as variations in light conditions, overlapping disease symptoms, tiny size of lesion areas, and occlusion between leaves. …”
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Zagadnienie światopoglądu w edukacji ekologicznej by Jacek W. Czartoszewski

“…It should be joined with changing mentality reducing consumption material goods (savings in using up energies and industrial goods) and taking care of remaining for succeeding generations natural environments in better condition than that nowadays. …”
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Controlling Underwater Robots with Electronic Nervous Systems by Joseph Ayers, Nikolai Rulkov, Dan Knudsen, Yong-Bin Kim, Alexander Volkovskii, Allen Selverston

“…The goal is to realise the adaptive capabilities of the animal models in natural environments. We report feasibility studies of a hybrid architecture that instantiates a command and coordinating level with computed discrete-time map-based (DTM) neuronal networks and the central pattern generators with analogue VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) electronic neuron (aVLSI) networks. …”
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An Improved Method for Human Activity Detection with High-Resolution Images by Fusing Pooling Enhancement and Multi-Task Learning by Haoji Li, Shilong Ren, Lei Fang, Jinyue Chen, Xinfeng Wang, Guoqiang Wang, Qingzhu Zhang, Qiao Wang

“…Further analysis uncovered that the areas of buildings, roads, and oil depots has obviously increased, while the farmland and wetland areas largely decreased over the five years, indicating an expansion of human activities and their increased impacts on natural environments.…”
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Landscape exposure and exercising for health: exposure to natural versus urban landscapes promotes walking for health by Hui-Ju Wu, Yevvon Yi-Chi Chang, Wen-Bin Chiou

“…We conducted a behavioural experiment to investigate whether exposure to natural environments could decrease temporal discounting, thereby enhancing the inclination to walk for health.Method In total, 140 participants were randomly assigned to view images of either natural or urban landscapes. …”
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