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The False Spring of 2012, Earliest in North American Record
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2nd paragraph: As global climate warms, increasingly warmer springs may combine with the random climatological occurrence of advective freezes, which result fro... |
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Point of No Return :The massive climate threats we must avoid
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The world is quickly reaching a Point of No Return for preventing the worst impacts of climate change. Continuing on the current course will make it difficult, ... |
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A reality check on the shale revolution
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The production of shale gas and oil in the United States is overhyped and the costs are underestimated, says J. David Hughes. |
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WWF: China Ecological Footprint Report 2012 Consumption, Production and Sustainable Development
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From the Executive Summary p. 3 : "We have only one planet and the time has come to transform our present lifestyle and consumption patterns in order to halt th... |
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What Every Conservation Biologist Should Know about Human Population
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EDITORIAL:CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH:
As with population issues, conservation biologists should ensure that we, as individuals and a professional society, understand... |
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The outcome is in the assumptions: analyzing the effects on atmospheric CO2 levels of increased use of bioenergy from forest biomass
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Recently, several studies have quantified the effects on atmospheric CO2 concentration of an increased harvest level in forests. Although these studies agreed i... |
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Asymmetric effects of economic growth and decline on CO2 emissions
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Letter to Editor: Excerpt: "Why does economic decline not have an effect on CO2 emissions that is symmetrical with the effect of economic growth? There are vari... |
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Drought in the United States: Causes and Issues for Congress
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Drought is a natural hazard with often significant societal, economic, and environmental consequences. Public policy issues related to drought range from how to... |
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Financial Costs of Meeting Global Biodiversity Conservation Targets: Current Spending and Unmet Needs
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World governments have committed to halting human-induced extinctions and safeguarding
important sites for biodiversity by 2020, but the financial costs of mee... |
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Impacts of Biodiversity Loss
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How much diversity is needed to maintain
the productivity of ecosystems?
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Mineral soil carbon fluxes in forests and implications for carbon balance assessments
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Forest carbon cycles play an important role in efforts to understand and mitigate climate change. Large amounts of carbon (C) are stored in deep mineral forest ... |
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Biotic Multipliers of Climate Change
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A focus on species interactions may improve predictions of the effects of climate change
on ecosystems.
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The challenge to keep global warming below 2 °C
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The latest carbon dioxide emissions continue to track the high end of emission scenarios, making it even less likely global warming will stay below 2 °C. A shi... |
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Reconciling nature conservation and traditional farming practices: a spatially explicit framework to assess the extent of High Nature Value farmlands in the European countryside
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Over past centuries, European landscapes have been shaped by human management. Traditional, low intensity agricultural practices, adapted to local climatic, geo... |
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Reconciling nature conservation and traditional farming practices: a spatially explicit framework to assess the extent of High Nature Value farmlands in the European countryside
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Agriculture constitutes a dominant land cover worldwide, and rural landscapes under extensive farming practices acknowledged due to high biodiversity levels. Th... |
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The Latest on Volcanic Eruptions and Climate
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2nd paragraph: It is well known that large volcanic eruptions inject sulfur gases into the stratosphere, which convert to sulfate aerosols with a life- time of ... |
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Too late for two degrees? Low carbon economy index 2012
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Even doubling our current rate of decarbonisation would still lead to emissions consistent with 6 degrees of
warming by the end of the century. To give ourselv... |
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Editorial: The “New Conservation”
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EDITORIAL: OPENING PARAGRAPHS A powerful but chimeric movement is rapidly gaining recognition and supporters. Christened the “new conservation,” it promotes... |
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Dramatically increasing chance of extremely hot summers since the 2003 European heatwave
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Socio-economic stress from the unequivocal warming of the global climate system(1)could be mostly felt by societies through weather and climate extremes (2). Th... |
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Landscape-scale carbon storage associated with beaver dams
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Beaver meadows form when beaver dams promote
prolonged overbank flooding and floodplain retention of
sediment and organic matter. Extensive beaver meadows fo... |
