Search Results - "Environmental research letters"

A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018 by Lamb, William F, Wiedmann, Thomas, Pongratz, Julia, Andrew, Robbie, Crippa, Monica, Olivier, Jos G J, Wiedenhofer, Dominik, Mattioli, Giulio, Khourdajie, Alaa Al, House, Jo, Pachauri, Shonali, Figueroa, Maria, Saheb, Yamina, Slade, Raphael, Hubacek, Klaus, Sun, Laixiang, Ribeiro, Suzana Kahn, Khennas, Smail, de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Chapungu, Lazarus, Davis, Steven J, Bashmakov, Igor, Dai, Hancheng, Dhakal, Shobhakar, Tan, Xianchun, Geng, Yong, Gu, Baihe, Minx, Jan

“…Abstract Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be traced to five economic sectors: energy, industry, buildings, transport and AFOLU (agriculture, forestry…”
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Urban nature in a time of crisis: recreational use of green space increases during the COVID-19 outbreak in Oslo, Norway by Venter, Zander S, Barton, David N, Gundersen, Vegard, Figari, Helene, Nowell, Megan

“…The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it significant changes to human mobility patterns and working environments. We aimed to explore…”
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The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris by van Sebille, Erik, Aliani, Stefano, Law, Kara Lavender, Maximenko, Nikolai, Alsina, José M, Bagaev, Andrei, Bergmann, Melanie, Chapron, Bertrand, Chubarenko, Irina, Cózar, Andrés, Delandmeter, Philippe, Egger, Matthias, Fox-Kemper, Baylor, Garaba, Shungudzemwoyo P, Goddijn-Murphy, Lonneke, Hardesty, Britta Denise, Hoffman, Matthew J, Isobe, Atsuhiko, Jongedijk, Cleo E, Kaandorp, Mikael L A, Khatmullina, Liliya, Koelmans, Albert A, Kukulka, Tobias, Laufkötter, Charlotte, Lebreton, Laurent, Lobelle, Delphine, Maes, Christophe, Martinez-Vicente, Victor, Morales Maqueda, Miguel Angel, Poulain-Zarcos, Marie, Rodríguez, Ernesto, Ryan, Peter G, Shanks, Alan L, Shim, Won Joon, Suaria, Giuseppe, Thiel, Martin, van den Bremer, Ton S, Wichmann, David

“…Marine plastic debris floating on the ocean surface is a major environmental problem. However, its distribution in the ocean is poorly mapped, and most of the…”
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A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights by Haberl, Helmut, Wiedenhofer, Dominik, Virág, Doris, Kalt, Gerald, Plank, Barbara, Brockway, Paul, Fishman, Tomer, Hausknost, Daniel, Krausmann, Fridolin, Leon-Gruchalski, Bartholomäus, Mayer, Andreas, Pichler, Melanie, Schaffartzik, Anke, Sousa, Tânia, Streeck, Jan, Creutzig, Felix

“…Strategies toward ambitious climate targets usually rely on the concept of 'decoupling'; that is, they aim at promoting economic growth while reducing the use…”
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Negative emissions-Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects by Fuss, Sabine, Lamb, William F, Callaghan, Max W, Hilaire, Jérôme, Creutzig, Felix, Amann, Thorben, Beringer, Tim, de Oliveira Garcia, Wagner, Hartmann, Jens, Khanna, Tarun, Luderer, Gunnar, Nemet, Gregory F, Rogelj, Joeri, Smith, Pete, Vicente, José Luis Vicente, Wilcox, Jennifer, del Mar Zamora Dominguez, Maria, Minx, Jan C

“…The most recent IPCC assessment has shown an important role for negative emissions technologies (NETs) in limiting global warming to 2 °C cost-effectively…”
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Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California by Goss, Michael, Swain, Daniel L, Abatzoglou, John T, Sarhadi, Ali, Kolden, Crystal A, Williams, A Park, Diffenbaugh, Noah S

“…California has experienced devastating autumn wildfires in recent years. These autumn wildfires have coincided with extreme fire weather conditions during…”
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Changing state of Arctic sea ice across all seasons by Stroeve, Julienne, Notz, Dirk

“…The decline in the floating sea ice cover in the Arctic is one of the most striking manifestations of climate change. In this review, we examine this ongoing…”
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Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971-2017 by Box, Jason E, Colgan, William T, Christensen, Torben Røjle, Schmidt, Niels Martin, Lund, Magnus, Parmentier, Frans-Jan W, Brown, Ross, Bhatt, Uma S, Euskirchen, Eugénie S, Romanovsky, Vladimir E, Walsh, John E, Overland, James E, Wang, Muyin, Corell, Robert W, Meier, Walter N, Wouters, Bert, Mernild, Sebastian, Mård, Johanna, Pawlak, Janet, Olsen, Morten Skovgård

“…Key observational indicators of climate change in the Arctic, most spanning a 47 year period (1971-2017) demonstrate fundamental changes among nine key…”
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Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data by Li, Xuecao, Gong, Peng, Zhou, Yuyu, Wang, Jie, Bai, Yuqi, Chen, Bin, Hu, Tengyun, Xiao, Yixiong, Xu, Bing, Yang, Jun, Liu, Xiaoping, Cai, Wenjia, Huang, Huabing, Wu, Tinghai, Wang, Xi, Lin, Peng, Li, Xun, Chen, Jin, He, Chunyang, Li, Xia, Yu, Le, Clinton, Nicholas, Zhu, Zhiliang

“…Urban boundaries, an essential property of cities, are widely used in many urban studies. However, extracting urban boundaries from satellite images is still a…”
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Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies by van Vliet, Michelle T H, Jones, Edward R, Flörke, Martina, Franssen, Wietse H P, Hanasaki, Naota, Wada, Yoshihide, Yearsley, John R

“…Water scarcity threatens people in various regions, and has predominantly been studied from a water quantity perspective only. Here we show that global water…”
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Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: paradigm change needed by Moreira, Francisco, Ascoli, Davide, Safford, Hugh, Adams, Mark A, Moreno, José M, Pereira, José M C, Catry, Filipe X, Armesto, Juan, Bond, William, González, Mauro E, Curt, Thomas, Koutsias, Nikos, McCaw, Lachlan, Price, Owen, Pausas, Juli G, Rigolot, Eric, Stephens, Scott, Tavsanoglu, Cagatay, Vallejo, V Ramon, Van Wilgen, Brian W, Xanthopoulos, Gavriil, Fernandes, Paulo M

“…During the last decades, climate and land use changes led to an increased prevalence of megafires in Mediterranean-type climate regions (MCRs). Here, we argue…”
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Negative emissions-Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis by Minx, Jan C, Lamb, William F, Callaghan, Max W, Fuss, Sabine, Hilaire, Jérôme, Creutzig, Felix, Amann, Thorben, Beringer, Tim, de Oliveira Garcia, Wagner, Hartmann, Jens, Khanna, Tarun, Lenzi, Dominic, Luderer, Gunnar, Nemet, Gregory F, Rogelj, Joeri, Smith, Pete, Vicente Vicente, Jose Luis, Wilcox, Jennifer, del Mar Zamora Dominguez, Maria

“…With the Paris Agreement's ambition of limiting climate change to well below 2 °C, negative emission technologies (NETs) have moved into the limelight of…”
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Arctic sea ice thickness, volume, and multiyear ice coverage: losses and coupled variability (1958-2018) by Kwok, R

“…Large-scale changes in Arctic sea ice thickness, volume and multiyear sea ice (MYI) coverage with available measurements from submarine sonars, satellite…”
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The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A systematic review of methods for nexus assessment by Albrecht, Tamee R, Crootof, Arica, Scott, Christopher A

“…The water-energy-food (WEF) nexus is rapidly expanding in scholarly literature and policy settings as a novel way to address complex resource and development…”
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Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options by Ivanova, Diana, Barrett, John, Wiedenhofer, Dominik, Macura, Biljana, Callaghan, Max, Creutzig, Felix

“…Background. Around two-thirds of global GHG emissions are directly and indirectly linked to household consumption, with a global average of about 6 tCO2eq/cap…”
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Arctic amplification of climate change: a review of underlying mechanisms by Previdi, Michael, Smith, Karen L, Polvani, Lorenzo M

“…Abstract Arctic amplification (AA)—referring to the enhancement of near-surface air temperature change over the Arctic relative to lower latitudes—is a…”
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The effects of climate extremes on global agricultural yields by Vogel, Elisabeth, Donat, Markus G, Alexander, Lisa V, Meinshausen, Malte, Ray, Deepak K, Karoly, David, Meinshausen, Nicolai, Frieler, Katja

“…Climate extremes, such as droughts or heat waves, can lead to harvest failures and threaten the livelihoods of agricultural producers and the food security of…”
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Regional determinants of China's consumption-based emissions in the economic transition by Zheng, Heran, Zhang, Zengkai, Wei, Wendong, Song, Malin, Dietzenbacher, Erik, Wang, Xingyu, Meng, Jing, Shan, Yuli, Ou, Jiamin, Guan, Dabo

“…China has entered the economic transition in the post-financial crisis era, with unprecedented new features that significantly lead to a decline in its carbon…”
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A 30 m global map of elevation with forests and buildings removed by Hawker, Laurence, Uhe, Peter, Paulo, Luntadila, Sosa, Jeison, Savage, James, Sampson, Christopher, Neal, Jeffrey

“…Abstract Elevation data are fundamental to many applications, especially in geosciences. The latest global elevation data contains forest and building…”
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Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources by Jackson, R B, Saunois, M, Bousquet, P, Canadell, J G, Poulter, B, Stavert, A R, Bergamaschi, P, Niwa, Y, Segers, A, Tsuruta, A

“…Climate stabilization remains elusive, with increased greenhouse gas concentrations already increasing global average surface temperatures 1.1°C above…”
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