As China emerges as a prominent hub for the maritime transport of hazardous and noxious substances (HNS), its existing compensation regime reveals significant structural weaknesses in addressing large-scale transboundary incidents. Relevant legislation, including the Ecological Environment Code and the Maritime Code, suffers from ambiguous liability provisions, inadequate compensation limits, a limited scope of coverage, and t...

Climatic fluctuations can play a crucial role in shaping large‐scale patterns of biodiversity and biogeography. This study examines how climatic gradients and their variability influence family‐level temporal ecological processes that govern the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes that underlie community dynamics of riverine insects. This comparison, done across multiple continents but mostly in the Northern...