From panic and neglect to investing in health security- Financing pandemic...
Deadly infectious pandemics will mark humanity's future, as they have shaped its past. Neither individual governments nor the global community can entirely prevent the emergence of infectious threats.
View ArticleRiver plastic emissions to the world’s oceans
Plastics in the marine environment have become a major concern because of their persistence at sea, and adverse consequences to marine life and potentially human health. Implementing mitigation strategies
View ArticleProduction, use, and fate of all plastics ever made
Plastics have outgrown most man-made materials and have long been under environmental scrutiny. However, robust global information, particularly about their end-of-life fate, is lacking. By identifying
View ArticleProjecting species’ vulnerability to climate change: Which uncertainty...
Species distribution models (SDMs) are commonly used to assess potential climate change impacts on biodiversity, but several critical methodological decisions are often made arbitrarily. We compare
View ArticleStrong gradients in forest sensitivity to climate change revealed by dynamics...
The lessngth of the fire cycle is a critical factor affecting the vegetation cover in boreal and temperate regions. However, its responses to climate change remain poorly understood. We re-analysed
View Article2017 Index of Economic Freedom
The Index of Economic Freedom provides compelling evidence of the wide-ranging tangible benefits of living in freer societies. The Index analyzes economic policy developments in 186 countries. Countries
View ArticleSatellite observed water quality changes in the Laurentian Great Lakes due to...
Long time series of ocean and land color satellite data can be used to measure Laurentian Great Lakes water quality parameters including chlorophyll, suspended minerals, harmful algal blooms (HABs),
View ArticleIncreased rainfall volume from future convective storms in the US
Mesoscale convective system (MCS)-organized convective storms with a size of ~100 km have increased in frequency and intensity in the USA over the past 35 years, causing fatalities and economic losses.
View ArticleThe role of Rossby-wave propagation in a North American extreme cold event
The Eliassen–Palm flux and Plumb wave activity flux are calculated using the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts interim reanalysis daily dataset to determine the propagation of
View ArticleSuitability of key Central American agroforestry species under future...
This atlas provides habitat suitability maps for 54 species that are widely used in Central America for shade in coffee or cocoa agroforestry systems. The 54 species represent 24 fruit species, 24 timber
View ArticleGlobal surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000–14 (CONCORD-3):...
In 2015, the second cycle of the CONCORD programme established global surveillance of cancer survival as a metric of the effectiveness of health systems and to inform global policy on cancer control.
View ArticleThe nitrogen balancing act: Tracking the environmental performance of food...
Farmers, food supply-chain entities, and policymakers need a simple but robust indicator to demonstrate progress toward reducing nitrogen pollution associated with food production. We show that nitrogen
View ArticlePolicy and environmental implications of using HEFA+ for aviation
The aviation sector must confront rapidly increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and ambitious decarbonization targets. Alternative jet fuels (AJFs) could be route to decarbonizing this sector, though
View ArticleStrategies for reducing Opioid-overdose deaths — Lessons from Canada
North America is in the midst of its most serious drug-overdose crisis in history. From 1999 through 2015, drug-overdose deaths approximately tripled in the United States, and the majority of such deaths
View ArticleBiological responses of Crested and Least auklets to volcanic destruction of...
Crested Auklets (Aethia cristatella) and Least Auklets (A. pusilla) are crevice-nesting birds that breed in large mixed colonies at relatively few sites in the Aleutian Island archipelago, Bering Sea,
View ArticleEmerging trends in global freshwater availability
Freshwater availability is changing worldwide. Here we quantify 34 trends in terrestrial water storage observed by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites during 2002–2016
View ArticleDeveloping and diagnosing climate change indicators of regional aerosol...
Given the importance of aerosol particles to radiative transfer via aerosol-radiation interactions, a methodology for tracking and diagnosing causes of temporal changes in regional-scale aerosol...
View ArticleThe evolution, seasonality and impacts of western disturbances
Western disturbances (WDs) are upper-level synoptic-scale systems embedded in the subtropical westerly jet stream (STWJ), often associated with extreme rainfall events in north India and Pakistan during
View ArticleBeyond road vehicles: survey of zero-emission technology options across the...
This working paper discusses the potential of zero-emission technologies to reduce emissions from non-road transport, including aviation, maritime, off-road, and rail. These modes represent a quarter of
View ArticleAn overview of methods used to study the impact of climate change on...
This discussion paper introduces a series of studies on the effects of climate change on agriculture in Central America and the Andean region. It presents a coherent logic as to why climate change is...
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