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Environmental Sciences
Arie Staal, Gerbrand Koren, Graciela Tejada, Luciana Gatti
Summary: The southeastern Amazon is a net carbon source due to drying conditions. This study assesses the origins of precipitation in the carbon source region and its relationship with vegetation productivity and land cover. Results show that 13% of the precipitation in the carbon source region has evaporated from the same area, and fully forested areas have higher carbon productivity. The study highlights the importance of maintaining the Amazon forest to sustain carbon and hydrological cycles.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Benjamin Plackett
Summary: Najat Saliba is facilitating collaborations between researchers from around the world and local communities in Lebanon.
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alexandra Witze
Summary: A team has detected a significant increase in lightning strikes in the Arctic, potentially linked to climate change, but others are unable to confirm these findings at this time.
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Brian Owens
Summary: Hot and dry weather combined with human carelessness has caused a massive burned area, resulting in a suffocating haze that is impacting millions of people.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
David L. A. Gaveau, Adria Descals, Mohammad A. Salim, Douglas Sheil, Sean Sloan
Summary: A new method for estimating burned areas in Indonesia in 2019 is proposed, showing higher reliability and accuracy compared to previous methods, with important implications for monitoring and reducing carbon emissions from forest and peatland fires.
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Wanqing Yu, Jing Zhang, Lijuan Liu, Yan Li, Xiaoyu Li
Summary: Optimizing landscape pattern is crucial for reducing non-point source pollution and improving river water quality. The source-sink landscape theory provides insights for analyzing the spatial heterogeneity of NPS pollution. In Southeastern China, the proportion of sink landscape is greater than that of source landscape, with farmland being the primary source of nitrogen and phosphorus pollution. Intensive farming areas and densely populated areas degrade water quality despite a high proportion of forest land. The source-sink landscape indices have significant correlations with different pollutants. Optimizing the source-sink landscape pattern is important for mitigating agricultural NPS pollution.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2022)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Geeta G. Persad, Bjorn H. Samset, Laura J. Wilcox
Summary: The article points out that estimates of regional change and climate extremes risks often overlook a significant player.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Margreet J. E. van Marle, Dave van Wees, Richard A. Houghton, Robert D. Field, Jan Verbesselt, Guido R. van der Werf
Summary: This article indirectly estimates the efficiency of land and ocean carbon sinks by analyzing the trends in the atmospheric ratio and provides evidence that the carbon uptake by land and ocean is keeping pace with anthropogenic emissions. It also shows that tropical deforestation emissions have increased significantly and contribute to the decrease in the CO2 airborne fraction.
Article
Ecology
Luke Collins, Hamish Clarke, Michael F. Clarke, Sarah C. McColl Gausden, Rachael H. Nolan, Trent Penman, Ross Bradstock
Summary: The aim of this study was to identify the environmental drivers of interannual variation in wildfire extent and severity in south-eastern Australia. The results showed that climatic potential for large and severe forest fires has increased since the 1950s, likely due to anthropogenic climate change. The magnitude and severity of the 2019-2020 fires reflected extreme climatic conditions, indicating the increasing size and severity of wildfires.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2022)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Summary: As monsoons in South Asia become more unpredictable, forecasting the weather is becoming increasingly challenging - with the added threat of global warming heightening the risks posed by intense rain storms.
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alexandra Witze
Summary: NASA's Ingenuity helicopter successfully hovered for 40 seconds in Mars's thin atmosphere.
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
W. U. Xiao-li, L. I. U. Miao, L. Chao-su, Allen David (Jack) Mchugh, L. Ming, X. I. O. N. G. Tao, L. I. U. Yu-bin, T. A. N. G. Yong-lu
Summary: The source-sink ratio affects wheat yield, but is influenced by climate and nitrogen deficiency. An increase in sink capacity leads to a higher degree of source limitation. Chuanmai 104 shows better performance in source-sink relations.
JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE AGRICULTURE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Maximilian Kotz, Leonie Wenz, Anders Levermann
Summary: Changes in climate conditions, influenced by anthropogenic global warming, will have profound impacts on natural and societal systems. Variability in daily surface temperature is found to change with distinct global patterns as greenhouse gas concentrations increase. The changes in daily temperature variability are attributed to enhanced greenhouse forcing and are expected to have uneven effects on societies, economies, and ecosystems in the future.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Editorial Material
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Xuezheng Zong, Yunhe Yin, Mijia Yin, Wenjuan Hou, Haoyu Deng, Tong Cui
Summary: Research indicates that the hotspots of compound events (CEs) in China are located in the southern humid regions, with CEs formed by multiple hazards being more severe than other types of CEs. These findings provide valuable insights for future climate action.
NPJ CLIMATE AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
S. Medinets, S. White, N. Cowan, J. Drewer, J. Dick, M. Jones, C. Andrews, D. Harvey, U. Skiba
Summary: The study simulated soil emissions of NO and N2O from typical land uses in Lowland and Highland Scotland under climate change conditions. Results showed that natural moorlands with high NH3 deposition rates were the main sources of NO emissions. As combustion sources of NO (x) decrease, the impact of soil NO emissions is likely to increase.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
