Results 161 to 170 of about 563,270 (278)

Estimating the greenhouse gas emission abatement potential of tidal introduction in Australia

open access: yesRestoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Coastal wetlands store higher amounts of organic carbon and sequester it at higher rates in soil relative to terrestrial ecosystems. However, they have been extensively drained, excavated, or modified, often to allow agriculture. Restoring degraded coastal wetlands can be an important contribution to climate change mitigation by ...
Mathew A. Vanderklift   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
wiley   +1 more source

South Arabia's prehistoric monument landscape shows social resilience to climate change. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
McCorriston J   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Design, Modeling, Control, and Application of Everting Vine Robots. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Robot AI, 2020
Blumenschein LH   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Why risk‐based premiums will not close the catastrophe protection gap: Conventional pricing, reinsurance capacity, and public scheme design

open access: yesRisk Management and Insurance Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Only about one‐fifth to one‐quarter of the economic losses caused by natural catastrophes in the European Union are insured, and the gap is widening as climate‐related losses grow. EIOPA and the ECB have proposed an EU‐level scheme combining a public–private reinsurance pool, funded by risk‐based premiums, with a public disaster fund.
Ilker Aslan
wiley   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy