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Open AccessConsistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities
Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmenta...
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A global-scale framework for hydropower development incorporating strict environmental constraints
The benefits of develo** the world’s hydropower potential are intensely debated when considering the need to avoid or minimize environmental impacts. However, estimates of global unused profitable hydropower...
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Open AccessDoubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century
Previous estimates of tropical forest carbon loss in the twenty-first century using satellite data typically focus on its magnitude, whereas regional loss trajectories and associated drivers are rarely reporte...
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Open AccessContrasting impacts of forests on cloud cover based on satellite observations
Forests play a pivotal role in regulating climate and sustaining the hydrological cycle. The biophysical impacts of forests on clouds, however, remain unclear. Here, we use satellite data to show that forests ...
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Upward expansion and acceleration of forest clearance in the mountains of Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia contains about half of all tropical mountain forests, which are rich in biodiversity and carbon stocks, yet there is debate as to whether regional mountain forest cover has increased or decrease...
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Open AccessNon-deforestation drivers of fires are increasingly important sources of aerosol and carbon dioxide emissions across Amazonia
Deforestation rates have declined substantially across the Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA) over the period from 2000–2017. However, reductions in fire, aerosol and carbon dioxide have been far less significant th...
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Open AccessResidential energy use emissions dominate health impacts from exposure to ambient particulate matter in India
Exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a leading contributor to diseases in India. Previous studies analysing emission source attributions were restricted by coarse model resolution and limited PM
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Black-carbon absorption enhancement in the atmosphere determined by particle mixing state
Atmospheric black carbon makes an important but poorly quantified contribution to the warming of the global atmosphere. Laboratory and modelling studies have shown that the addition of non-black-carbon materia...
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China’s contribution to climate change
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel use in China have grown dramatically in the past few decades, yet it emerges that the country's relative contribution to global climate change has remained surprisingl...
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Factors Controlling Spring and Summer Time Aerosol Size Distributions in the Arctic: A Global Model Study
A global size-segregated aerosol model is used together with aerosol size distribution measurements to study the observed spring to summer transition of aerosol properties in the Arctic. Previous studies have ...