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Estimation of China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink: Methods, progress and prospects by Piao, Shilong, He, Yue, Wang, Xuhui, Chen, Fahu

“…China announced its national goal to reach the peak of carbon emission by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, during the General Assembly of the United…”
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Complete three-dimensional coseismic displacements due to the 2021 Maduo earthquake in Qinghai Province, China from Sentinel-1 and ALOS-2 SAR images by Liu, Jihong, Hu, Jun, Li, Zhiwei, Ma, Zhangfeng, Wu, Lixin, Jiang, Weiping, Feng, Guangcai, Zhu, Jianjun

“…On 22nd May 2021 (local time), an earthquake of M s 7.4 struck Maduo county in Qinghai Province, China. This was the largest earthquake in China since the 2008…”
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The dynamic and thermodynamic processes dominating the reduction of global land monsoon precipitation driven by anthropogenic aerosols emission by Zhou, Tianjun, Zhang, Wenxia, Zhang, Lixia, Zhang, Xuebin, Qian, Yun, Peng, Dongdong, Ma, Shuangmei, Dong, Buwen

“…Changes in monsoon precipitation have profound social and economic impacts as more than two-thirds of the world’s population lives in monsoon regions…”
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Palaeozoic tectonic evolution of the Tianshan belt, NW China by Charvet, Jacques, Shu, LiangShu, Laurent-Charvet, Sébastien, Wang, Bo, Faure, Michel, Cluzel, Dominique, Chen, Yan, De Jong, Koen

“…The Chinese Tianshan belt is a major part of the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt, extending westward to Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Its Paleozoic tectonic…”
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The impacts of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review by Piao, Shilong, Zhang, Xinping, Chen, Anping, Liu, Qiang, Lian, Xu, Wang, Xuhui, Peng, Shushi, Wu, Xiuchen

“…The increased frequency of climate extremes in recent years has profoundly affected terrestrial ecosystem functions and the welfare of human society. The…”
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Evolution of permafrost in China during the last 20 ka by Jin, Huijun, Jin, Xiaoying, He, Ruixia, Luo, Dongliang, Chang, Xiaoli, Wang, Shaoling, Marchenko, Sergey S, Yang, Sizhong, Yi, Chaolu, Li, Shijie, Harris, Stuart A

“…The formation and evolution of permafrost in China during the last 20 ka were reconstructed on the basis of large amount of paleo-permafrost remains and…”
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Perspectives on the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the ‘carbon neutrality’ strategy by Piao, Shilong, Yue, Chao, Ding, Jinzhi, Guo, Zhengtang

“…The Chinese government has made a strategic decision to reach ‘carbon neutrality’ before 2060. China’s terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink is currently…”
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Mapping the permafrost stability on the Tibetan Plateau for 2005–2015 by Ran, Youhua, Li, Xin, Cheng, Guodong, Nan, Zhuotong, Che, Jinxing, Sheng, Yu, Wu, Qingbai, Jin, Huijun, Luo, Dongliang, Tang, Zhiguang, Wu, Xiaobo

“…Data scarcity is a major obstacle for high-resolution mapping of permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau (TP). This study produces a new permafrost stability…”
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Review of Mercury’s dynamic magnetosphere: Post-MESSENGER era and comparative magnetospheres by Sun, Weijie, Dewey, Ryan M., Aizawa, Sae, Huang, Jia, Slavin, James A., Fu, Suiyan, Wei, Yong, Bowers, Charles F.

“…This review paper summarizes the research of Mercury’s magnetosphere in the Post-MESSENGER era and compares its dynamics to those in other planetary…”
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Aboveground biomass and its spatial distribution pattern of herbaceous marsh vegetation in China by Shen, Xiangjin, Jiang, Ming, Lu, Xianguo, Liu, Xingtu, Liu, Bo, Zhang, Jiaqi, Wang, Xianwei, Tong, Shouzheng, Lei, Guangchun, Wang, Shengzhong, Tong, Chuan, Fan, Hangqing, Tian, Kun, Wang, Xiaolong, Hu, Yuanman, Xie, Yonghong, Ma, Muyuan, Zhang, Shuwen, Cao, Chunxiang, Wang, Zhichen

“…Herbaceous marsh is the most widely distributed type of marsh wetland ecosystem, and has important ecological functions such as water conservation, climate…”
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The subduction of the west Pacific plate and the destruction of the North China Craton by Zhu, Rixiang, Xu, Yigang

“…While a general concensus has recently been reached as to the causal relationship between the subduction of the west Pacific plate and the destruction of the…”
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Tectonic evolution and geodynamics of the Neo-Tethys Ocean by Zhu, Rixiang, Zhao, Pan, Zhao, Liang

“…The Neo-Tethys Ocean was an eastward-gaping triangular oceanic embayment between Laurasia to the north and Gondwana to the south. The Neo-Tethys Ocean was…”
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Rock crevices determine woody and herbaceous plant cover in the karst critical zone by Liu, Hongyan, Jiang, Zihan, Dai, Jingxi, Wu, Xiuchen, Peng, Jian, Wang, Hongya, Meersmans, Jeroen, Green, Sophie M., Quine, Timothy A.

“…The study of the critical zones (CZs) of the Earth link the composition and function of aboveground vegetation with the characteristics of the rock layers,…”
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Coal measure metallogeny: Metallogenic system and implication for resource and environment by Li, Yong, Pan, Songqi, Ning, Shuzheng, Shao, Longyi, Jing, Zhenhua, Wang, Zhuangsen

“…Coal, coal measure gas, coal conversion to oil and gas, and coal-based new materials are reliable guarantees for stable energy supply and economic and social…”
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30 m global impervious surface area dynamics and urban expansion pattern observed by Landsat satellites: From 1972 to 2019 by Huang, Xin, Li, Jiayi, Yang, Jie, Zhang, Zhen, Li, Dongrui, Liu, Xiaoping

“…Using more than three million Landsat satellite images, this research developed the first global impervious surface area (GISA) dataset from 1972 to 2019…”
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Progress and performance evaluation of BeiDou global navigation satellite system: Data analysis based on BDS-3 demonstration system by Yang, Yuanxi, Xu, Yangyin, Li, Jinlong, Yang, Cheng

“…The first two Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites of the third generation of BeiDou satellite navigation System (BDS-3) were successfully launched on November…”
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The impact of meteorological changes from 2013 to 2017 on PM2.5 mass reduction in key regions in China by Zhang, Xiaoye, Xu, Xiangde, Ding, Yihui, Liu, Yanju, Zhang, Hengde, Wang, Yaqiang, Zhong, Junting

“…In 2013, China issued the “Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Air Pollution” (“Ten Statements of Atmosphere”) and implemented a series of pollution…”
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Growing seismicity in the Sichuan Basin and its association with industrial activities by Lei, Xinglin, Su, Jinrong, Wang, Zhiwei

“…In the Sichuan Basin, seismic activity has been low historically, but in the past few decades, a series of moderate to strong earthquakes have occurred…”
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Shear wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle in Southeastern Tibet and its geodynamic implications by Zhang, Zhiqi, Yao, Huajian, Yang, Yan

“…Southeastern Tibet, which has complex topography and strong tectonic activity, is an important area for studying the subsurface deformation of the Tibetan…”
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Impact of China’s Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan on PM2.5 chemical composition over eastern China by Geng, Guannan, Xiao, Qingyang, Zheng, Yixuan, Tong, Dan, Zhang, Yuxuan, Zhang, Xiaoye, Zhang, Qiang, He, Kebin, Liu, Yang

“…China promulgated the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan (the Action Plan) in 2013 and developed stringent control measures to mitigate fine…”
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