International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2020 This study presents a novel comparative analysis on global energy scenarios in terms of main characteristics, scenario building frameworks and time frames.
S. Ghasemian +5 more
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Sensitivity of Neoproterozoic snowball-Earth inceptions to continental configuration, orbital geometry, and volcanism [PDF]
Climate of the Past, 2023 The Cryogenian period (720–635 million years ago) in the Neoproterozoic era featured two phases of global or near-global ice cover termed “snowball Earth”.
J. Eberhard +6 more
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Coincidences of climate extremes and anomalous vegetation responses: comparing tree ring patterns to simulated productivity [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2015 Climate extremes can trigger exceptional responses in terrestrial ecosystems, for instance by altering growth or mortality rates. Such effects are often manifested in reductions in net primary productivity (NPP).
A. Rammig +7 more
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Grid Impact Analysis of Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, 2020 This paper presents a grid impact analysis of heavy-duty electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. In this work, heavy-duty EVs have battery capacities high enough to provide a range of 250–500 miles on a single charge, such as long-haul trucks.
Xiangqi Zhu, B. Mather, Partha P. Mishra
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Future tree survival in European forests depends on understorey tree diversity
Scientific Reports, 2022 Climate change heavily threatens forest ecosystems worldwide and there is urgent need to understand what controls tree survival and forests stability. There is evidence that biodiversity can enhance ecosystem stability (Loreau and de Mazancourt in Ecol ...
Maik Billing +4 more
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Irrigation of biomass plantations may globally increase water stress more than climate change
Nature Communications, 2021 The authors here model how water stress would be affected either by biomass plantations combined with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in a strong climate mitigation scenario (1.5 °C warming in 2100) or by climate impacts in a strong climate change ...
Fabian Stenzel +5 more
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Life-cycle impacts from different decarbonization pathways for the European car fleet
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 For light-duty vehicles (LDVs), alternative powertrains and liquid fuels based on renewable electricity are competing options considered by policymakers and stakeholders for achieving necessary CO _2 emission reductions in the transport sector. While the
Alois Dirnaichner +7 more
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Understanding Regime Shifts in Social-Ecological Systems Using Data on Direct Ecosystem Service Use
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021 This paper takes a new look on transition processes in social-ecological systems, identified based on household use of direct ecosystem services in a case study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Philipp Censkowsky +2 more
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Finnish Council of Regulatory Impact Analysis : Annual review 2022 [PDF]
, 2023 In 2022, the Finnish Council of Regulatory Impact Analysis issued a total of 42 statements on draft government proposals and one draft government decree.
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PLoS ONE, 2020 The precise evaluation of the potential damage caused by large commercial aircraft crash into civil structures, especially nuclear power plants (NPPs), has become essential design consideration.
M. Sadiq +5 more
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