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Feeding climate and biodiversity goals with plant-based protein alternatives

Replacing 50% of meat and milk products with plant-based alternatives by 2050 can reduce agriculture and land use related greenhouse gas emissions by 31% and halt the degradation of forest and natural land. Additional climate and biodiversity benefits could accrue from reforesting the spared land.

Marta Kozicka

Sep 12, 2023

Transforming sustainable plant proteins into high performance lubricating microgels

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Transforming sustainable plant proteins into high performance lubricating microgels

Ben Kew

Aug 09, 2023

Near-term pathways for decarbonizing global concrete production

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Near-term pathways for decarbonizing global concrete production

Josefine A. Olsson and 2 others

Aug 04, 2023

Built structures as determinants of national-level energy demand and CO2 emissions

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Built structures as determinants of national-level energy demand and CO2 emissions

Helmut Haberl

Jul 07, 2023

Resource Rushes and Human Migration

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Resource Rushes and Human Migration

Saleem H. Ali

Jun 18, 2023

How do policies in the sustainable mobility transition affect cumulative urban transport emissions and energy demand?

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How do policies in the sustainable mobility transition affect cumulative urban transport emissions and energy demand?

Lisa Winkler

Apr 25, 2023

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Are cities meeting climate mitigation goals? A machine learning approach to predicting performance

Angel Hsu

Dec 09, 2022

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Portable and High-yield Atmospheric Water Harvesters for Emergency Water Supply

By 2025, almost two billion people will live in areas with absolute scarcity. To alleviate worldwide water shortage, scientists at Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed a low-cost and scalable hygroscopic material and deployed it into a portable water harvester for a stable water supply.

He Shan

Sep 17, 2022

Carbon accumulation is a key but incomplete criterion for restoring tree cover

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Carbon accumulation is a key but incomplete criterion for restoring tree cover

Jacob Bukoski and 2 others

Jul 29, 2022

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Fairly sharing the effort in the EU’s Green Deal

Just today we’ve learned that the European Council agreed on a number of issues in the Fit for 55 Package; a proposal to reach the goal of reducing emissions by 55% compared to 1990 by the year 2030. We developed a tool to be used in negotiations and reflect on the fairness of the current proposal.

Keith Williges

Jun 29, 2022

The burning of fossil fuels is making Antarctica darker

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The burning of fossil fuels is making Antarctica darker

Raul R. Cordero and 1 other

Feb 22, 2022

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A roadmap for securing a larger and greener global rice bowl

Rice systems face the dual challenge of producing more and being more efficient in the use of water, labor, nutrients, and pesticides. An article published in Nature Communications on Dec 9 assessed performance of 32 rice cropping systems, altogether accounting for 50% of global rice cropland.

Patricio Grassini

Dec 09, 2021

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Rewetted fen peatlands - novel and essential for climate protection

Peatlands store twice as much carbon as all the biomass of the World’s forests. Vast areas of peatland have been drained and turned into CO2 sources. Their rewetting is essential to reduce CO2 emissions. But how exactly do the rewetted peatlands look like, do they resemble again the natural state?

Franziska Tanneberger

Oct 21, 2021

New clean air collection from Nature Communications

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New clean air collection from Nature Communications

Samantha Zimbler

Oct 04, 2021

Landscape intensification and the belowground diversity of agroecosystems

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Landscape intensification and the belowground diversity of agroecosystems

Gaëtane Le Provost

Jun 24, 2021

The Energy Footprint of Land Grabs

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The Energy Footprint of Land Grabs

Saleem H. Ali

May 12, 2021

Editors' Highlights in Climate, Energy and Earth Science

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Editors' Highlights in Climate, Energy and Earth Science

Samantha Zimbler

Feb 25, 2021

Measuring human impacts on tropical forest remnants

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Measuring human impacts on tropical forest remnants

Renato Lima

Dec 16, 2020

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Rural Electrification is Impeding Carbon Neutral Strategy in China

China has enacted a series of policies since 2015 to substitute electricity for in-home combustion toward rural electrification and pollution management. However, this shift has resulted in a sharp increase in electric loads and associated carbon emissions from power generation.

Jianxiao Wang

Nov 27, 2020

Arctic lakes reveal centuries of change

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Arctic lakes reveal centuries of change

Greg Seitz and 4 others

Nov 03, 2020

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