Country-level social cost of carbon
The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a commonly employed metric of the expected economic damages from carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Although useful in an optimal policy context, a world-level approach
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Old soil carbon losses increase with ecosystem respiration in experimentally thawed tundra
Old soil carbon (C) respired to the atmosphere as a result of permafrost thaw has the potential to become a large positive feedback to climate change. As permafrost thaws, quantifying old soil contributions
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Future temperature in southwest Asia projected to exceed a threshold for human adaptability
A human body may be able to adapt to extremes of dry-bulb temperature (commonly referred to as simply temperature) through perspiration and associated evaporative cooling provided that the wet-bulb temperature
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Reduced streamflow in water-stressed climates consistent with CO2 effects on vegetation
Global environmental change has implications for the spatial and temporal distribution of water resources, but quantifying its effects remains a challenge. The impact of vegetation responses to increasing
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Linear sea-level response to abrupt ocean warming of major West Antarctic ice basin
<p>Antarctica’s contribution to global sea-level rise has recently been increasing . Whether its ice discharge will become unstable and decouple from anthropogenic forcing or increase linearly with
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Relationship between soil fungal diversity and temperature in the maritime Antarctic
Soil fungi have pivotal ecological roles as decomposers, pathogens and symbionts. Alterations to their diversity arising from climate change could have substantial effects on ecosystems, particularly those
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Large rainfall changes consistently projected over substantial areas of tropical land
Many tropical countries are exceptionally vulnerable to changes in rainfall patterns, with floods or droughts often severely affecting human life and health, food and water supplies, ecosystems and infrastructure.
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Estimates of solid waste disposal rates and reduction targets for landfill gas emissions
<p>Landfill disposal of municipal solid waste represents one of the largest anthropogenic global methane emission sources, and recent policy approaches have targeted significant reductions of these emissions
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Economic impacts of carbon dioxide and methane released from thawing permafrost
The Arctic is warming roughly twice as fast as the global average. If greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase at current rates, this warming will lead to the widespread thawing of permafrost and
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Joint projections of US East Coast sea level and storm surge
Future coastal flood risk will be strongly influenced by sea-level rise (SLR) and changes in the frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones. These two factors are generally considered independently.
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Sustainable water management under future uncertainty with eco-engineering decision scaling
<p>Managing freshwater resources sustainably under future climatic and hydrological uncertainty poses novel challenges. Rehabilitation of ageing infrastructure and construction of new dams are widely viewed