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Increasing timber and declining live plant diversity and volumes in global trade from 2000 to 2020 2000 - 2020年全球贸易中木材的增加和活植物多样性和数量的减少
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Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01950-2
Alireza Naqinezhad, Oscar Morton, David P. Edwards
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Airborne observations of fast-evolving ocean submesoscale turbulence 快速演变的海洋亚中尺度湍流的航空观测
IF 8.1 1区 地球科学
Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01917-3
Hector S. Torres, Ernesto Rodriguez, Alexander Wineteer, Patrice Klein, Andrew F. Thompson, Jörn Callies, Eric D’Asaro, Dragana Perkovic-Martin, J. Thomas Farrar, Federica Polverari, Ruzbeh Akbar
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Strong El Niño and La Niña precipitation—sea surface temperature sensitivity under a carbon removal scenario 碳清除情景下的强厄尔尼诺和拉尼娜降水-海洋表面温度敏感性
IF 8.1 1区 地球科学
Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01958-8
Chao Liu, Soon-Il An, Zixiang Yan, Soong-Ki Kim, Seungmok Paik
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Near-term carbon dioxide removal deployment can minimize disruptive pace of decarbonization and economic risks towards United States’ net-zero goal 短期内部署二氧化碳去除技术可以最大限度地降低脱碳的破坏性速度和经济风险,以实现美国的净零目标
IF 8.1 1区 地球科学
Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01916-4
Humphrey Adun, Jeffrey Dankwa Ampah, Olusola Bamisile, Yihua Hu, Iain Staffell, Haris R. Gilani
{"title":"Near-term carbon dioxide removal deployment can minimize disruptive pace of decarbonization and economic risks towards United States’ net-zero goal","authors":"Humphrey Adun, Jeffrey Dankwa Ampah, Olusola Bamisile, Yihua Hu, Iain Staffell, Haris R. Gilani","doi":"10.1038/s43247-024-01916-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-024-01916-4","url":null,"abstract":"Deep decarbonization is essential for achieving the Paris Agreement goals, and carbon dioxide removal is required to address residual emissions and achieve net-zero targets. However, the implications of delaying the deployment of removal technologies remain unclear. We quantify how different carbon removal methods and their deployment timing affect achieving net zero emissions by 2050 in the United States. Our findings show that postponing novel technologies until mid-century forces accelerated decarbonization of energy-intensive sectors, reducing residual emissions by at least 12% compared with near-term deployment of carbon dioxide removal. This delay increases transition costs, requiring carbon prices 59–79% higher than with near-term deployment. It also heightens the risk of premature fossil fuel retirement in the electricity sector, leading to 128–220 billion USD losses compared to gradual scale up starting now. A balanced, near-term co-deployment of novel removal methods mitigates risks associated with relying on a single approach  and addresses sustainability and scalability concerns. In the US, the delay in novel carbon dioxide removal until mid-century and focus on other mitigation actions reduces 2050 residual emissions to 17 percent of 2020 levels but at a high economic cost, according to an analysis that uses a market equilibrium model with a scenario approach.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01916-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Decarbonization pathways promote improvements in cement quality and reduce the environmental impact of China’s cement industry 脱碳途径促进了水泥质量的提高,减少了中国水泥工业对环境的影响
IF 8.1 1区 地球科学
Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01929-z
Zhaoling Li, Lu Sun, Runsen Zhang, Tatsuya Hanaoka
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Growing aridity poses threats to global land surface 日益严重的干旱对全球陆地表面构成威胁
IF 8.1 1区 地球科学
Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01935-1
Jordi Sardans, Albert Miralles, Akash Tariq, Fanjiang Zeng, Rong Wang, Josep Peñuelas
{"title":"Growing aridity poses threats to global land surface","authors":"Jordi Sardans, Albert Miralles, Akash Tariq, Fanjiang Zeng, Rong Wang, Josep Peñuelas","doi":"10.1038/s43247-024-01935-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-024-01935-1","url":null,"abstract":"Global warming has impacted water cycle, but not exist a global study of the changes at global scale of the impacts on water available for plants. Here, cloud-optimized monthly aggregated climate reanalysis from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts dataset indicates that from 1960 to 2023, 27.9% of the global land surface became significantly more arid, while 20.5% became significantly less arid. This indicates a shift towards drier climates, with humid, semi-humid, and semi-arid areas decreasing by 8.51, 1.45, and 0.53 million-km², respectively, and arid and hyper-arid areas increasing by 6.34 and 4.18 million-km², respectively. This total increase of 9.99 million km² in arid areas represents 5.9% of the global land surface, excluding Greenland and Antarctica. Accelerated aridification has occurred in already dry regions, such as South-west North-America, North-Brazil, the European-Basin, North-Africa, the Middle-East, the Sahel, and central-Asia, with central-Africa as a new hotspot. The main driver is the disproportionate increase in potential evapotranspiration relative to rainfall, attributed to rising atmospheric temperatures, which also reduces the land’s carbon sink capacity, potentially exacerbating climate warming. From 1960 to 2023, 27.9% of the global land surface became more arid, while 20.5% became less arid, resulting in a 5.9% increase in arid regions, linked to reduction of land’s carbon sink capacity and climate warming, according to analysis of the ERA5-land monthly aggregated climate reanalysis dataset.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01935-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Regional cooling potential from expansion of perennial grasses in Europe 欧洲多年生牧草扩张带来的区域降温潜力
IF 8.1 1区 地球科学
Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01923-5
Xia Zhang, Bo Huang, Nariê Rinke Dias de Souza, Xiangping Hu, Francesco Cherubini
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Public perceptions of mineral criticality and preferences for energy transition strategies in the United States 美国公众对矿物重要性的看法和对能源转型战略的偏好
IF 8.1 1区 地球科学
Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01944-0
Mahelet G. Fikru, Sreeja Koppera
{"title":"Public perceptions of mineral criticality and preferences for energy transition strategies in the United States","authors":"Mahelet G. Fikru, Sreeja Koppera","doi":"10.1038/s43247-024-01944-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-024-01944-0","url":null,"abstract":"Critical minerals are essential for advancing the energy transition. However, the public’s perception of these minerals and their application is still not well understood. Here, we investigate public awareness and perceptions of critical minerals in the United States, based on a nationally representative survey of 1200 online respondents. While only 38% of respondents stated familiarity with critical minerals, over 80% recognized the importance of minerals in the energy transition. Participants were most supportive of strategies focused on mineral research and improving the environmental impacts of mining, while domestic mining received less support. Regression analysis shows that individuals who perceive mineral criticality based on their importance to clean energy support multiple mineral policies, whereas those concerned about import dependency or shortages prefer domestic mining. Individuals who believe environmental impacts should govern criticality designation oppose domestic mining and support mineral recycling and improving mining’s environmental impacts. These findings highlight the role of differing perceptions of mineral criticality in shaping policy preferences, emphasizing the need for public awareness to foster sustainable mineral strategies for the energy transition. In the United States, the different perceptions about critical minerals influence preferences for mineral use in energy transition strategies, according to a survey-based assessment of the public awareness of critical minerals with 1,200 respondents.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01944-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Publisher Correction: A global overview of marine heatwaves in a changing climate 出版者更正:气候变化中海洋热浪的全球概况
IF 8.1 1区 地球科学
Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01952-0
Antonietta Capotondi, Regina R. Rodrigues, Alex Sen Gupta, Jessica A. Benthuysen, Clara Deser, Thomas L. Frölicher, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Dillon J. Amaya, Natacha Le Grix, Tongtong Xu, Juliet Hermes, Neil J. Holbrook, Cristian Martinez-Villalobos, Simona Masina, Mathew Koll Roxy, Amandine Schaeffer, Robert W. Schlegel, Kathryn E. Smith, Chunzai Wang
{"title":"Publisher Correction: A global overview of marine heatwaves in a changing climate","authors":"Antonietta Capotondi, Regina R. Rodrigues, Alex Sen Gupta, Jessica A. Benthuysen, Clara Deser, Thomas L. Frölicher, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Dillon J. Amaya, Natacha Le Grix, Tongtong Xu, Juliet Hermes, Neil J. Holbrook, Cristian Martinez-Villalobos, Simona Masina, Mathew Koll Roxy, Amandine Schaeffer, Robert W. Schlegel, Kathryn E. Smith, Chunzai Wang","doi":"10.1038/s43247-024-01952-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-024-01952-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":" ","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01952-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Forest vegetation increased across China’s carbon offset projects and positively impacted neighboring areas 中国碳抵消项目的森林植被增加,并对周边地区产生积极影响
IF 8.1 1区 地球科学
Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01962-y
Runxin Yu, Shiping Ma, Da Zhang, Xiliang Zhang
{"title":"Forest vegetation increased across China’s carbon offset projects and positively impacted neighboring areas","authors":"Runxin Yu, Shiping Ma, Da Zhang, Xiliang Zhang","doi":"10.1038/s43247-024-01962-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43247-024-01962-y","url":null,"abstract":"As forest-based carbon offset programs gain increasing attention, quantifying their impacts beyond project boundaries remains an open issue, particularly in subtropical and temperate regions. Here we focus on the local spillover effects of 36 forest offset projects in China’s voluntary carbon market. Using matching and difference-in-difference analysis, we compare the forest status of the project areas and buffer zones to their reference areas. Results show overall positive forest gains of 2.25% to 4.25% in project sites, with neighboring areas seeing spillover gains of 0.91% to 1.60%, exhibiting heterogeneity in individual projects. Further analysis finds limited evidence of leakage, possibly due to China’s land policies and project features; instead, positive spillovers are facilitated by knowledge diffusion and information flow, supported by reduced wildfire activities and project application patterns. This study demonstrates that well-designed forest offset programs can yield benefits beyond their boundaries, providing insights for offset policy design and project implementation. Across 36 forest offset projects in China, the vegetation increased from 2000 to 2022, and the forest gain is also evident in buffer zones, according to an analysis that uses biophysical and land-use variables and a difference-in-difference model.","PeriodicalId":10530,"journal":{"name":"Communications Earth & Environment","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01962-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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