Article
Agricultural Engineering
Seung Hye Lee, Lorie Hamelin
Summary: The transition to bioeconomy and low-fossil carbon economy necessitates long-term investments, which will be influenced by future conditions. Evaluating multiple future scenarios instead of one single projection can enhance decision support robustness.
BIOMASS & BIOENERGY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Cascade Tuholske, Kelly Caylor, Chris Funk, Andrew Verdin, Stuart Sweeney, Kathryn Grace, Pete Peterson, Tom Evans
Summary: The study highlights the increasing threat of extreme heat exposure to rapidly growing urban settlements globally, especially impacting the urban poor. By estimating daily urban population exposure to extreme heat from 1983 to 2016, the research shows that total urban warming plays a crucial role in the increase of exposure, outweighing the impact of urban population growth.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mark A. Titley, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Victoria R. Jones, Mark J. Whittingham, Stephen G. Willis
Summary: Sociopolitical factors have emerged as important determinants of wildlife population trends and conservation effectiveness. Climate change impacts may be disproportionately significant in countries with weaker governance and lower greenhouse gas emissions, raising questions of international justice. The importance of transboundary conservation and the potential impacts of species redistribution across political boundaries under climate change have been highlighted.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Book Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alexandra Witze
Summary: The United States should pay attention to learn from its past mistakes in decarbonization.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Arnald Puy, Bruce Lankford, Jonas Meier, Saskia van der Kooij, Andrea Saltelli
Summary: Assessing the impact of human activities on the global water cycle requires estimating irrigation water withdrawal, in which the flawed irrigation efficiency used in global models overlooks key uncertainties, causing significant fluctuations in withdrawal estimates at the country level. These uncertainties in irrigation efficiency are larger and more extreme than those related to climate change, emphasizing the importance of considering deep uncertainties in irrigation efficiency to prevent shortsighted policies.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeff Tollefson
Summary: A New York experiment is part of a commercial race to develop ocean-based technologies to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie
Summary: This study provides a comprehensive assessment of energy sustainability across 217 countries and territories, highlighting the challenges faced by low-income countries in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The research reveals that sustained economic growth and reduced income inequality can improve energy sustainability in developing economies. Additionally, climate-prone regions that heavily rely on water resources for power generation should prioritize sustainable climate policies to minimize trade-offs between energy resources and environmental threats.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Temitope Olawunmi Sogbanmu, Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon, Lahcen El Youssfi, Fridah Dermmillah Obare, Seira Duncan, Marion Hicks, Khadeejah Ibraheem Bello, Faris Ridzuan, Adeyemi Oladapo Aremu
Summary: Co-organizers of the Global Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change assert that holistic approaches to water and land management employed by Indigenous communities worldwide are crucial for achieving a more sustainable future.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Dana Cuff
Summary: By adopting a radical planning approach, suburbs in the United States can become affordable, livable, and environmentally friendly.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Kai-Yuan Cheng, Lucas Harris, Christopher Bretherton, Timothy M. Merlis, Maximilien Bolot, Linjiong Zhou, Alex Kaltenbaugh, Spencer Clark, Stephan Fueglistaler
Summary: This study used a global storm resolving model to simulate the changes in the frequency of intense convection under different sea surface temperature conditions. The results showed that increased sea surface temperature globally enhanced the frequency of intense convection, but with significant spatial and seasonal variations. Changes in the spatial pattern of intense convection were associated with changes in planetary circulation.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Peter Alexander, Roslyn Henry, Sam Rabin, Almut Arneth, Mark Rounsevell
Summary: This paper discusses the relationship between the Nature Futures Framework (NFF) and the shared socio-economic pathways (SSPs) and the representative concentration pathways (RCPs). By mapping the results of SSP scenarios onto the NFF value perspectives, the authors find that only SSP1 provides greater benefits for Nature as Culture and Nature for Society relative to a 2010 baseline. Overall, the SSP scenarios provide fewer benefits for Nature for Nature.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Vaseem Akram, Sushant Bhargava
Summary: Material footprint, particularly fossil fuel material footprint (FFMF), plays a vital role in climate change and sustainable development. This study examines the convergence of FFMF among 154 countries from 1970 to 2019 and finds that FFMF converges to a steady state with a symmetric decline in growth. The results indicate the importance of continuing global efforts to control FFMF and formulate future climate change policies that enhance awareness of FFMF and long-term sustainability.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Timothy M. Lenton, Chi Xu, Jesse F. Abrams, Ashish Ghadiali, Sina Loriani, Boris Sakschewski, Caroline Zimm, Kristie L. Ebi, Robert R. Dunn, Jens-Christian Svenning, Marten Scheffer
Summary: The costs of climate change are often expressed in monetary terms, but this brings up ethical concerns. This study calculates the costs in terms of the number of people excluded from the 'human climate niche', which represents the historically consistent distribution of population density with respect to temperature. It was found that current climate policies leading to 2.7 degrees C global warming by the end of the century could leave one-third of the global population outside this niche, emphasizing the urgency for decisive action to address climate change.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Johan Rockstroem, Mariana Mazzucato, Lauren Seaby Andersen, Simon Felix Fahrlaender, Dieter Gerten
Summary: Anthropogenic pressures and climate change are causing significant changes in water flows globally. To prevent catastrophe, there is a need for better understanding, new economic thinking, and an international governance framework.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Paulo Ceppi, Peer Nowack
Summary: Global warming influences Earth's cloud cover, which plays a crucial role in the uncertainty of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS). Through analyzing how clouds respond to environmental changes, global cloud feedback is constrained to 0.43 +/- 0.35 W·m-2·K-1, indicating a robust amplifying effect of clouds on global warming. This approach is expected to provide tighter constraints on climate change projections and its various socioeconomic and ecological impacts.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)