Peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research on climate change, environmental policy, and sustainability topics.
A study co-led by DRI's Bea Gordon finds cropland 1.3 to 5 times more associated with where nearly 10,000 Western fires stopped than other land types. Its authors want drought plans that idle irrigated land to count the lost buffer, though the moisture explanation is a proposal.
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Cornell researchers report that two sheep per hectare raised bee and lady beetle abundance 38% over mowing at one New York solar farm. Honey bees drove most of the gain, and at four sheep per hectare the advantage over mowing was gone.
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Scientists who think technology will largely solve climate change are 23% less likely to petition or protest, an LSE survey of over 9,000 researchers found. The answers are self-reported, and they leave open whether optimism drives the inaction or merely accompanies it.
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Researchers from PSE Healthy Energy, Stanford and NYU found NO2 above the EPA's outdoor one-hour limit in about 70% of gas restaurant kitchens they measured. The three all-electric kitchens stayed within every pollution guideline during cooking hours, so the choice of appliance also determines how much pollution kitchen workers breathe.
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IIASA researchers published a framework in Environmental Research Letters for testing any river basin against the global freshwater planetary boundary. They offer it to basin authorities as a decision-support tool for weighing trade-offs and drafting long-term adaptation plans.
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A paper in Environmental Research Letters estimates that permafrost, wildfire, wetland and inland-water emissions amplify human-caused warming by 20 to 30 percent, though at one standard deviation the low-emissions case still runs from zero to 0.4 C.
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A new IIASA-led study allocates a 2C carbon budget to world regions by responsibility and capability, then solves for the cheapest way to satisfy both. The transfers implied run from US$10.1 trillion to US$44.8 trillion.
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A Leiden team modelled food-consumption emissions for 12,228 cities and found the EAT-Lancet diet cutting Amsterdam's by roughly half while raising Dhaka's. Diet and supply-chain efficiency each explain 48% of the gap between cities.
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KIT compared day and night temperatures from three summers against the 2022 census in every German district, and found the non-citizen share tracked warmer night air in 84.2% of cities without explaining why.
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