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Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

open access: yesScience, 2011
Until recently, large apex consumers were ubiquitous across the globe and had been for millions of years. The loss of these animals may be humankind’s most pervasive influence on nature. Although such losses are widely viewed as an ethical and aesthetic problem, recent research reveals extensive cascading effects of their disappearance in marine ...
Estes, JA   +23 more
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EARTH - PLANET - UNIVERSE

The Yale Review, 2017
The winds began to freshen, a warning that the balmy California day was about to change. In the Sierra Nevada Mountains, experienced locals were retreating inside to wait out the windstorm about to roar down the Yuba River valley.
J. Muir
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Thriving on Our Changing Planet: A Decadal Strategy for Earth Observation from Space

, 2019
The steering committee then compared the observing needs associated with the 103 Objectives to the Program of Record. Unmet observation needs were then synthesized into a set of 22 Targeted Observables for consideration.

semanticscholar   +1 more source

Thermal emission from the Earth-sized exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b using JWST

Nature, 2023
The TRAPPIST-1 system is remarkable for its seven planets that are similar in size, mass, density and stellar heating to the rocky planets Venus, Earth and Mars in the Solar System^ 1 .
T. Greene   +5 more
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Planet Earth

2020
The pressure on planetary resources is substantially driven by increases in energy demands that have been mostly met by the combustion of fossil fuels. The basis of the warming in the troposphere is explained starting from the molecular structure of atmospheric components and their resulting rotational and vibrational spectra.
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Planet Earth

2014
Abstract Earth is the most dynamic planet in our solar system, but the very same geophysical features that make our world so life-giving and life-preserving also make it dangerous. ‘Planet Earth: in a nutshell’ provides a potted biography of the Earth’s 4.6 billion years of history describing the major natural hazards—storms, floods ...
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Human Domination of Earth’s Ecosystems

Renewable Energy, 1997
Human alteration of Earth is substantial and growing. Between one-third and one-half of the land surface has been transformed by human action; the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere has increased by nearly 30 percent since the beginning of ...
P. Vitousek   +3 more
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Understanding an urbanizing planet: Strategic directions for remote sensing

Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019
Scientific contributions from remote sensing over the last fifty years have significantly advanced our understanding of urban areas. Key contributions of urban remote sensing include but are not limited to characterization of urban areas, urban land ...
Zhe Zhu   +6 more
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Planet Earth: Russia and Transatlantic Relations

International Journal, 2003
THE IRAQ WAR HAS TRIGGERED "the most severe transatlantic tensions in a generation, dividing Europeans and Americans from each other and among themselves."(1) Most politicians and analysts drew the conclusion in the wake of that war that a single superpower of unparalleled strength had climbed to a domineering position, while the united west had become
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