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One Earth
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ISSN 2590-3322 · Elsevier BV · 31 articles in the index
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Net-zero emissions chemical industry in a world of limited resources
The chemical industry is responsible for about 5% of global CO 2 emissions and is key to achieving net-zero targets. Decarbonizing this industry, nevertheless, faces particular challenges given the widespread use of carbon-rich raw materials, the need for high-temperature heat, and the complex…
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A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services
As rates of urbanization and climatic change soar, decision-makers are increasingly challenged to provide innovative solutions that simultaneously address climate change impacts and risks and inclusively ensure quality of life for urban residents. Cities have turned to nature-based solutions to…
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Characteristics, potentials, and challenges of transdisciplinary research
Resolving the grand challenges and wicked problems of the Anthropocene will require skillfully combining a broad range of knowledge and understandings-both scientific and non-scientific-of Earth systems and human societies. One approach to this is transdisciplinary research, which has gained…
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Unwelcome exchange: International trade as a direct and indirect driver of biological invasions worldwide
Biological invasions are synonymous with international trade. The direct effects of trade have largely been quantified using relationships between imports and the number of alien species in a region or patterns in the global spread of species linked to shipping and air traffic networks. But trade…
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Carbon capture and storage at the end of a lost decade
Following the landmark 2015 United Nations Paris Agreement, a growing number of countries are committing to the transition to net-zero emissions. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been consistently heralded to directly address emissions from the energy and industrial sectors and forms a…
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Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil's climate change communications
This paper investigates how ExxonMobil uses rhetoric and framing to shape public discourse on climate change. We present an algorithmic corpus comparison and machine-learning topic model of 180 ExxonMobil climate change communications, including peer-reviewed publications, internal company…
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Achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions in the cement industry via value chain mitigation strategies
Cement is used globally in construction materials for nearly all civil infrastructure systems supporting improved quality of life, and there is currently no substitute that can meet its functional capacity. The magnitude of cement production leads to more than 7% of annual anthropogenic greenhouse…
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A framework for complex climate change risk assessment
Real-world experience underscores the complexity of interactions among multiple drivers of climate change risk and of how multiple risks compound or cascade. However, a holistic framework for assessing such complex climate change risks has not yet been achieved. Clarity is needed regarding the…
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Global decline in capacity of coral reefs to provide ecosystem services
Coral reefs worldwide are facing impacts from climate change, overfishing, habitat destruction, and pollution. The cumulative effect of these impacts on global capacity of coral reefs to provide ecosystem services is unknown. Here, we evaluate global changes in extent of coral reef habitat, coral…
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Worldwide occurrence records suggest a global decline in bee species richness
Wild and managed bees are key pollinators, ensuring or enhancing the reproduction of a large fraction of the world's wild flowering plants and the yield of ∼85% of all cultivated crops. Recent reports of wild bee decline and its potential consequences are thus worrisome. However, evidence is mostly…
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Sand, gravel, and UN Sustainable Development Goals: Conflicts, synergies, and pathways forward
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Variable Impacts of Climate Change on Blue Carbon
Publisher of over 50 scientific journals across the life, physical, earth, and health sciences, both independently and in partnership with scientific societies including Cell, Neuron, Immunity, Current Biology, AJHG, and the Trends Journals.
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Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Requires Transdisciplinary Innovation at the Local Scale
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Change in Terrestrial Human Footprint Drives Continued Loss of Intact Ecosystems
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Applications in Remote Sensing to Forest Ecology and Management
Remote sensing provides valuable insights into pressing environmental challenges and is a critical tool for driving solutions. In this Primer, we briefly introduce the important role of remote sensing in forest ecology and management, which includes applications as diverse as mapping the…