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A Global Assessment: Can Renewable Energy Replace Fossil Fuels by 2050?
Sustainability, 2022 Our study evaluated the effectiveness of using eight pathways in combination for a complete to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy by 2050. These pathways included renewable energy development; improving energy efficiency; increasing energy ...
J. Holechek +3 more
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Environmental Research, 2021 The burning of fossil fuels - especially coal, petrol, and diesel - is a major source of airborne fine particulate matter (PM2.5), and a key contributor to the global burden of mortality and disease.
K. Vohra +5 more
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Air pollution deaths attributable to fossil fuels: observational and modelling study
British medical journal, 2023 Objectives To estimate all cause and cause specific deaths that are attributable to fossil fuel related air pollution and to assess potential health benefits from policies that replace fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy sources.
J. Lelieveld +6 more
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Climate Change, Fossil-Fuel Pollution, and Children's Health.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2022 From the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, Columbia University, New York (F.P.); and the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Otolaryngology, and Epidemiology and Population Health ...
F. Perera, K. Nadeau
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Role of energy storage systems in energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables
Energy Storage, 2020 We present the role of heat and electricity storage systems on the rapid rise of renewable energy resources and the steady fall of fossil fuels. The upsurge in renewable resources and slump in fossil fuel consumptions is attributed to sustainable energy ...
A. Kalair +4 more
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Effects of fossil fuel and total anthropogenic emission removal on public health and climate
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 Significance We assessed the effects of air pollution and greenhouse gases on public health, climate, and the hydrologic cycle. We combined a global atmospheric chemistry–climate model with air pollution exposure functions, based on an unmatched large ...
J. Lelieveld +6 more
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Analysis of Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption and Environmental Impacts in European Countries
Energies, 2019 The use of fossil fuels as the main source of energy for most countries has caused several negative environmental impacts, such as global warming and air pollution.
F. Martins +3 more
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Fossil apes and human evolution
Science, 2021 A distinctive ancestor There has been much focus on the evolution of primates and especially where and how humans diverged in this process. It has often been suggested that the last common ancestor between humans and other apes, especially our closest ...
S. Almécija +5 more
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Time-averaging e suas implicações para o registro fóssil marinho
Terrae Didatica, 2016 A Tafonomia é uma área da Paleontologia que estuda como a informação biológica é alterada na rota teórica vivo-mortofóssil. Esta ciência tem se tornado cada vez mais quantitativa e se utilizado de estudos em ambientes modernos para generalizar os efeitos
Matias do Nascimento Ritter +1 more
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Assinaturas tafonômicas em moluscos recentes e seu significado paleoambiental
Terrae Didatica, 2017 A partir do tipo de dano (injúria) presente nos restos bioclásticos é possível inferir os processos de alteração de informação biológica que agem durante a incorporação destes restos no registro fossilífero.
Fernando Erthal +2 more
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