Kai Cheng, Haitao Yang and colleagues show the dynamics of planted forests in China over the past three decades have contributed ~1198tg of above-ground carbon storage nature.com/articles/s4146…

Sadaf.M, @HamedMoftakhari et al use ML to estimate #SeaLevelRise and #HighTideFlooding thresholds every 10KM along the US coast, complementing conventional estimates and offering insights for ungauged areas The University of Alabama, Virginia Tech, NOAA's Ocean Service nature.com/articles/s4146…

Ceferino and colleagues propose an Earthquake Survival Chain in this new perspective. During earthquake disasters, engineering can help with search & rescue, patient mobilization, and medical treatment nature.com/articles/s4146…

Looking forward to some hearing about some great environmental economics research at #AERE2024. I'll be easy to spot with the buzzed blonde hair, feel free to say hello!

How can climate agreements decolonize and embrace Indigenous knowledge? This thoughtful comment explores the needed contributions of Indigenous Peoples to shift climate policy and research towards reciprocal relationships with the natural world nature.com/articles/s4146…

V, Philipp Koch, @EvaColl8, César A. Hidalgo quantify trade in digital products (cloud computing, mobile games, etc) finding this trade grows rapidly, impacts trade balances, supports economic decoupling, and enhances economic complexity measures nature.com/articles/s4146…

AI-based data-driven methods can simulate the relationship between wastewater and hazardous waste generation, enabling source estimation of hazardous waste from diverse enterprises in a uniform and lightweight manner in China nature.com/articles/s4146…

Irene Monasterolo, Stefano Battiston, et al build a method to quantify #ClimatePhysicalRisk on productive assets. Investor losses are underestimated up to 70% when neglecting asset level information, and up to 82% neglecting tail acute risks #AdaptationFinance nature.com/articles/s4146…

Water scarcity could increase 4x in the Pearl Basin by 2050, caused by both water quantity and quality changes. Water quality management options could cost-effectively half future water scarcity Maryna Strokal; Michelle van Vliet; Water @ Wageningen; IIASA nature.com/articles/s4146…

Using satellites, Gaige Kerr et al find communities in the USA with warehouses experience more truck traffic and increased air pollution as a disproportionate number of racial and ethnic minorities live in these communities Milken Institute SPH The ICCT nature.com/articles/s4146…

How do #Wildfires influence #Migration in the USA? This paper finds only the most extreme events affected existing migration trends. Migration in response to wildfire building destruction was rare, while immobility was a more common response nature.com/articles/s4146…

What is the future of transboundary water compacts under changing climates? Gronewold and colleagues provide an insightful discussion on two contrasting compacts in the USA in a new Comment U-M SEAS Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy nature.com/articles/s4146…

A #StatisticalMechanics approach shows how #UrbanForm influences #UrbanFlood hazards linking flood risk to ground slope, porosity, building arrangement symmetry, and chord length, offering a scalable model applicable worldwide Mohammad Javad Brett Sanders nature.com/articles/s4146…

Earth observations show that flash flood erosion in the Derna watershed in Libya aggravated the disastrous impacts of #StormDaniel catastrophic flood USC Viterbi School IPGP NASA Earth Copernicus EU ESA Earth Observation nature.com/articles/s4146…

In deep decarbonization scenarios, the full economic potential of land-based CDR is conditioned on international emissions trading, and vice versa. Deploying both enables achievement of climate stabilization targets at lower cost @MITGlobalChange nature.com/articles/s4146…

A 1.5-fold gap exists in #UrbanGreenSpace cooling adaptation between Global South and North cities. There is vast potential for improving outdoor #Cooling adaptation and reducing its #GlobalInequality Chi Xu Jens Svenning Robert R. Dunn nature.com/articles/s4146…

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