BASEL, Switzerland, Dec. 21 -- Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, a journal that addresses topics such as acid precipitation, air quality monitoring and management, air pollution climatology, atmospheric impact assessment, forest-fire emissions, greenhouse gases, health and ecological effects and clean air technology, published research articles on the following topics in its January 2021 edition: Original Paper: * The association between COVID-19 deaths and short-term ambient air pollution/ more PR

BASEL, Switzerland, Dec. 21 -- Atmospheres, an international open access journal of scientific studies related to the atmosphere, published research articles, including the following topics, in its December 2020 edition: Article: * Quantifying the Independent Influences of Land Cover and Humidity on Microscale Urban Air Temperature Variation in Hot Summer: Methods of Path Analysis and Genetic SVR * A 5000-Year Sedimentary Record of East Asian Winter Monsoon from the Northern Muddy Area of th more PR

GIRRAWHEEN, Australia, Dec. 26 -- The Australian Journal of Environmental Education, a journal that says it promotes understanding of environmental and social justice from the Australian Association for Environmental Education, published research articles on the following topics in its November 2020 edition: Article: * Where is the Love in Environmental Education Research? A Diffractive Analysis of Steiner, Ecosomaesthetics and Biophilia * Entanglements of matter and meaning: The importance o more PR

BASEL, Switzerland, Dec. 21 -- Climate, an open access journal that says it focuses on climate processes, published research articles, including the following topics, in its December 2020 edition: Article: * Modeling the Soil Response to Rainstorms after Wildfire and Prescribed Fire in Mediterranean Forests * Local Institutions and Climate Change Adaptation: Appraising Dysfunctional and Functional Roles of Local Institutions from the Bilate Basin Agropastoral Livelihood Zone of Sidama, Southe more PR

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Dec. 22 -- Diversity and Distributions, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features conservation of biodiversity, application of island biogeographic principles, developing paradigms, models and frameworks for risk assessment, published research articles on the following topics in its January 2021 edition: BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH: * When does agriculture enter into conflict with wildlife? A global assessment of parrot-agriculture conflicts and their conservation effects  more PR

LONDON, England, Dec. 24 -- Environmental Communication, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features communication, media, society and environmental issues, including climate change, natural resources, sustainability, conservation, wildlife, ecosystems, water, environmental health, food and agriculture and energy, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2020 edition: Advanced Review: * Open Questions in Scientific Consensus Messaging Research Research Articles:  more PR

THOUSAND OAKS, California, Dec. 23 -- Environmental Health Insights, a peer-reviewed journal that says it focuses on how environmental factors affect the health of individuals and societies, published research articles, including the following topics, in its January/December 2020 edition: Original Research: * Comparative Analysis of Pesticide Use Determinants Among Smallholder Farmers From Costa Rica and Uganda * Correlates of Indoor Concentration of Carbon Monoxide in Residential Buildings  more PR

LONDON, England, Dec. 22 -- Environmental Microbiology, a journal that says it features microbial interactions and processes in the environment from the Society for Applied Microbiology, published research articles, including the following topics, in its December 2020 Special Issue on Pathogen and Drug Resistance Ecology: Minireviews: * Lysogeny in the oceans: Lessons from cultivated model systems and a reanalysis of its prevalence * Mechanisms of triazole resistance in Aspergillus fumigates more PR

PENSACOLA, Florida, Dec. 24 -- Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, a journal from the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, published research articles, including the following topics, in its January 2021 edition: Critical Review: * Phytohormonal Roles in Plant Responses to Heavy Metal Stress: Implications for Using Macrophytes in Phytoremediation of Aquatic Ecosystems Special Section: * Managing Aqueous Film-Forming Foam-Derived Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances at Depart more PR

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Dec. 26 -- Environmetrics, a journal that says it features techniques, methods and theories that solve environmental problems from the International Environmetrics Society, published research articles, including the following topics, in its December 2020 edition: RESEARCH ARTICLES: * Detecting British Columbia coastal rainfall patterns by clustering Gaussian processes * A joint Bayesian space-time model to integrate spatially misaligned air pollution data in R-INLA * Qua more PR

SEATTLE, Washington, Dec. 22 -- Estuaries and Coasts, a journal that says it focuses on ecosystems at the interface between the land and the sea, covering research on physical, chemical, geological or biological systems, as well as applications to management of those ecosystems from the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, published research articles, including the following topics, in its January 2021 edition: Original Paper: * Effects of Ferrous Iron and Hydrogen Sulfide on Nitrate Re more PR

BASEL, Switzerland, Dec. 24 -- Fire, an open-access journal about the science, policy and technology of vegetation fires and how they interact with communities and the environment, published research articles, including the following topics, in its December 2020 edition: Article: * Building Loss in WUI Disasters: Evaluating the Core Components of the Wildland-Urban Interface Definition * The Post-Fire Assembly Processes of Tree Communities Based on Spatial Analysis of a Sierra Nevada Mixed-C more PR

BASEL, Switzerland, Dec. 24 -- Fishes, an open access journal that says it focuses on fish and aquatic life sciences, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2020 edition: Article: * Vertebrae Morphometric Measurement and Ca/P Levels of Different Age European Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) * Case Studies Demonstrate That Common Carp Can Be Sustainably Reduced by Exploiting Source-Sink Dynamics in Midwestern Lakes * Multispecies Fresh Water Algae Production for Fi more PR

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Dec. 24 -- Freshwater Biology, a journal that focuses on the ecology of inland surface waters, including connected ground waters, flood plains and freshwater wetlands, micro-organisms, algae and macrophytes, published research articles, including the following topics, in its January 2021 edition: ORIGINAL ARTICLES: * The lentic and lotic characteristics of habitats determine the distribution of benthic macroinvertebrates in Mediterranean rivers * Identifying groundwater-f more PR

WEINHEIM, Germany, Dec. 24 -- Global Challenges, a peer-reviewed open access journal that provides practical solutions to a spectrum of global challenges, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2020 edition: Full Papers: * A Hydrophobic-Interaction-Based Mechanism Triggers Docking between the SARS-CoV-2 Spike and Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 * Specific Removal of Nitrite from Lake Urmia Sediments by Biohydrogel Based on Isolated Soy Protein/Tragacanth/Mesoporou more PR

BEIJING, China, Dec. 24 -- The Journal of Mountain Science, a journal that says it features mountain environment, ecology, hazards, resources and development from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2020 edition: * Channelized and unchannelized collapses of granular columns on a horizontal surface * Comparative performance assessment of landslide susceptibility models with presence-only, presence-absence, and pseudo-absence data  more PR

BASEL, Switzerland, Dec. 26 -- Recycling, a peer-reviewed scientific journal that says it features original articles, critical reviews, research notes and communications in the area of waste reutilization and resource recycling, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2020 edition: Articles: * Co-Pyrolysis of Low-Density Polyethylene and Motor Oil--Investigation of the Chemical Interactions between the Components * Removal of Fish Odors Form Styrofoam Packaging to  more PR

BASEL, Switzerland, Dec. 21 -- Resources, a peer-reviewed journal of scientific studies on natural resources, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2020 edition: Article: * Combining Sanitary Inspection and Water Quality Data in Western Uganda: Lessons Learned from a Field Trial of Original and Revised Sanitary Inspection Forms * Analysis of the German Industry to Determine the Resource Potential of CO2 Emissions for PtX Applications in 2017 and 2050 * Common Re more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 -- Water Environment Research, a peer-reviewed journal from the Water Environment Federation that says it features water quality, pollution control and management, published research articles, including the following topics, in its January 2021 edition: REVIEW: * Challenge for the detection of microplastics in the environment RESEARCH ARTICLES: * Nitrification in a biofilm-enhanced highly loaded aerated lagoon * The effects of three different microplastics on enzyme acti more PR