Freshwater Methane Emissions Offset the Continental Carbon Sink
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Acornerstone of our understanding of the
contemporary global carbon cycle is that
the terrestrial land surface is an important
greenhouse gas (GHG) sink (1, ... |
Land, irrigation water, greenhouse gas, and reactive nitrogen burdens of meat, eggs, and dairy production in the United States
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Livestock production impacts air and water quality, ocean health, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on regional to global scales and it is the largest use of l... |
Scenarios of future land use change around United States’ protected areas
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Land use change around protected areas can diminish their conservation value, making it important to
predict future land use changes nearby. Our goal was to ev... |
Palaeodata-informed modelling of large carbon losses from recent burning of boreal forests
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Although boreal fire regimes are heterogeneous, recent trends6 and future projections7 point to increasing fire activity in response to climate warming througho... |
Climate change effects on stream and river temperatures across the northwest U.S. from 1980–2009 and implications for salmonid fishes
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Thermal regimes in rivers and streams are fundamentally important to aquatic ecosystems and are expected to change in response to climate forcing as the Earth�... |
Projections of Future Drought in the Continental United States and Mexico
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Using the Palmer drought severity index, the ability of 19 state-of-the-art climate models to reproduce observed
statistics of drought over North America is ex... |
Carbon Sequestration in Two Created Riverine Wetlands in the Midwestern United States
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Wetlands have the ability to accumulate significant amounts of carbon (C) and thus could provide an effective approach to mitigate greenhouse gas accumulation i... |
Tree mortality predicted from drought-induced vascular damage
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The projected responses of forest ecosystems to warming and drying associated with twenty-first-century climate change vary widely from resiliency to widespread... |
EPA and the Army Corps’ Proposed Rule to Define “Waters of the United States”
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Excerpt from summary : According to the agencies, the proposed rule would revise the existing regulatory definition of “waters of the United States” consist... |
Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss
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Soil organic matter is the largest terrestrial carbon pool1. The pool size depends on the balance between formation of soil organic matter from decomposition of... |
Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss
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Soil organic matter is the largest terrestrial carbon pool (1). The pool size depends on the balance between formation of soil organic matter from decomposition... |
Impacts of Biodiversity Loss
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How much diversity is needed to maintain
the productivity of ecosystems?
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Palaeodata-informed modelling of large carbon losses from recent burning of boreal forests
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Wildfires play a key role in the boreal forest carbon cycle (1,2) , and models suggest that accelerated burning will increase boreal C emissions in the coming c... |
Climate commitment in an uncertain world
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Climate commitment—the warming that would still occur given no further human influence—is a fundamental metric for both science and policy. It informs us of... |
Palaeodata-informed modelling of large carbon losses from recent burning of boreal forests
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Wildfires play a key role in the boreal forest carbon cycle(1,2), and models suggest that accelerated burning will increase boreal C emissions in the coming cen... |
Effect of Risk Aversion on Prioritizing Conservation Projects
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Agencies making decisions about what threat mitigation actions to take to save which species frequently face the dilemma of whether to invest in actions with hi... |
Increasing Northern Hemisphere water deficit
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A monthly water-balance model is used with CRUTS3.1 gridded monthly precip- itation and potential evapotranspiration (PET) data to examine changes in global wat... |
Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security
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Tropospheric ozone and black carbon (BC) contribute to both degraded air quality and global
warming. We considered ~400 emission control measures to reduce the... |
Allowable carbon emissions lowered by multiple climate targets
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Climate targets are designed to inform policies that would limit the
magnitude and impacts of climate change caused by anthropogenic
emissions of greenhouse g... |
Comment:Nuclear winter is a real and present danger
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Models show that even a ‘small’ nuclear war would cause catastrophic climate change. Such findings must inform policy, says Alan Robock. |