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Summary Silica (SiO2) scaling in geothermal brines processing can hinder energy production and downstream lithium (Li) recovery. Here, we investigate diatom-based selective silicon (Si) removal from brines to support downstream recovery of lithium (Li) and generating biomass for valorization. Screening of six diatom strains identified Halamphora sp. as the most effective for Si removal. When cultivated in geothermal brine supplemented with urea, Halamphora sp. removed 34 mg L−1 of Si (97.14%)...

Organic-rich soils, developed in-situ over extended time periods, provide an important record of the relationship between societal and environmental change. Here, a palaeoenvironmental record from Vatnsfjörður farm, NW Iceland, one of Iceland’s richest by the late Middle Ages, offers new perspectives on land management adaptations as Norse settlers colonised the pristine Icelandic landscape. Integration of field data, soil micromorphology, and pollen analyses, chronologically constrained usin...

Location-based games use GPS, mobile devices, and augmented reality to blend physical and digital space. Increasingly, these games extend play beyond cities and into forests, reserves, and other more-than-human landscapes, framed as tools for promoting ecological connection and sustainability. Yet they frequently reproduce anthropocentric and extractive logics, treating more-than-human worlds as resources for player progression, rather than more complex, interdependent environments. Using a c...

Reintroduction of keystone species is considered part of the solution to the current biodiversity crisis. The Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) is one such species, shaping its habitat by felling trees, building dams and creating wetlands. However, whilst the potential benefits to aquatic biodiversity and ecological functioning have been studied on a local scale, the impacts of beavers on catchment-scale processes such as fish migration remain understudied. Sequencing of environmental DNA (eDNA ...