Sustainable groundwater management is key to building resilience to hydrological extremes but remains challenging in data-scarce transboundary river basins. In this study, a transboundary, collaborative, physically based groundwater modelling approach has been developed for the Limpopo River Basin (LRB), which is highly vulnerable to floods and droughts. Monitoring data and model results consistently suggest that prolonged wet...

Brown seaweed has gained special attention in aquaculture nutrition studies due to its functional bioactive compounds, such as polysaccharides. This study evaluated the functional potential of the brown seaweed, Ascophyllum nodosum , as a natural immunostimulant and growth promoter in Nile tilapia. A 74-day feeding experiment was conducted using 540 fingerlings (initial body weight 18.4 ± 0.2 g), randomly allocated to six diet...

Microplastics (MPs) pose a persistent global threat and have entered almost every component of the ecosystem and seafood items. This study aimed to identify and characterize MPs in three widely edible fishes in the lower Meghna River estuary of Bangladesh and assess the polymer hazard index. Gastrointestinal tracts (GIT) of fish were collected and digested with KOH to extract MPs, and the polymer was confirmed by FTIR analysis...