Increasing salt production and use is shifting the natural balances of salt ions across Earth
systems, causing interrelated effects across biophysical systems collectively known as …

Awareness concerning the degradation of groundwater quality and their exacerbating
adverse effects due to salinization processes is gaining traction, raising for adequate …

Urban sprawl and its economic, social, and environmental consequences are central issues
for approaching more sustainable forms of life and production. This review provides a broad …

The heterogeneity of grain quality can lead to limited predictability of qualitative and
quantitative characteristics of the wheat yield, especially with an increase in the importance …

This paper describes the contents of the new Hydrogeological Map of the City of Rome (1:
50,000 scale). The map extends to the entire municipality (1285 km2) and is based on both …

This study aims at establishing groundwater residence times, identifying mineralization
processes and determining groundwater origins within a carbonate coastal aquifer with thick …

Acidification is a major soil-forming process, and concerns about acidifying anthropogenic
atmospheric deposition make it a significant environmental issue. In the long term, the …

Abstract A protohistoric (c. 10th–5th c. BC) briquetage site at Puntone (Tuscany, Italy) was
studied to unravel the salt production processes and materials involved. Geophysical …

Climate change is nowadays widely considered to have major effects on groundwater
resources. Climatic projections suggest a global increase in evaporation and higher …

Agricultural production faces unprecedented challenges in the 21st century (Foley et al.
2011). By the end of the century, the global population may reach upwards of 11 billion (UN …