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Kedhareswara Sairam Pasupuleti , M.Sc., Ph.D Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea

Dr. Abd El-Aleem Saad Soliman Desoky Editor-in-Chief Assistant Professor, Plant Protection Department Sohag University

Jiachao Peng , PhD Senior Lecturer (Associate Prof.), School of Law and Business Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China

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Earth & Environmental Sciences a multidisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences to the study of the earth, environment, and the solution of environmental problems. It covers all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history, climate and climate change, marine and freshwater systems, and ecology. Earth and Environmental Sciences provide an integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of earth & environmental systems and improving environmental quality in every aspect. It also considers the interactions between humans and these systems. The aim of this journal is to provide a platform for Environmentalist, Geologist and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various experimental and theoretical results of new issues and developments in different areas of Earth & Environmental Sciences.

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Research Overview

Dive Deep. Research in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences literally spans the globe, with field locations on all seven continents. From the top of the Alps to volcanoes on the ocean floor, our faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students are uncovering exciting new insights on the mysteries of Earth’s structure, processes, and systems.

EES focuses on four primary research areas:

• Solid-Earth dynamics: transport, reaction, and evolution of fluids and magmas in the crust
• Life processes: Earth’s record of life, ecology, and the adaptation to changing climate and environment
• Surface and atmosphere dynamics: processes governing Earth’s thin, life-sustaining sphere of air, water, and sediment
• Coupled human-environment interactions: the complex and dynamic intersection of Earth processes and human activity

Ongoing research projects by EES faculty are located in the southwestern United States and Pacific Coast, the Appalachian Mountains, Bangladesh, Peru, Brazil, New Zealand, Iceland, Australia, Sri Lanka, and Antarctica. Undergraduate students are active participants and contributors to research projects, including field work, laboratory experiments, and computer modeling.

Research Opportunities for Undergraduates

The department encourages all undergraduate majors to undertake a research project as part of the Honors program or through an independent or directed-study course. Most majors take advantage of this opportunity. Students work closely with faculty members and other students on research projects. This outside-the-classroom interaction is one of the most important features of our academic program.

Interested in working with a faculty member on their research? Just email them or knock on their door! Our faculty love to discuss research opportunities with students.

CURRENT AND RECENT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

The projects listed below are/were supported by the Vaughan Undergraduate Assistantships, National Science Foundation grants to faculty members, or the Vanderbilt University Summer Research Program. Those marked with an asterisk were presented at a national or regional meeting of the Geological Society of America or a session of the American Geophysical Union.

• Amelia Baran  (2020): Feldspars as a Record of Magmatic and Volcanic Processes at Akaroa Volcanic Complex
• Lila Johnson (2020): A new record of a Late Triassic ichthyosaur with Jurassic-like dentition revealed by micro-CT scanning
• Liam Kelly (2020): Modeling heat extraction from magma bodies at depth in the Central TVZ
• Thomas Maertens (2020): White-Lipped Peccary effects on forest structure and diversity
• Andrew McKinnis  (2020): A Preliminary Report: Ice Shelf Velocity Visualization Using the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM)
• Hannah Salaverry (2020): Last millennium aragonite speleothem trace element record of water flow and prior carbonate precipitation
• Maggie Syversen (2020): Fluid dynamics of the Enigmatic Ediacaran Organism Pteridinium
• Yiruo Xu (2020): Investigating the applicability of speleothem strontium isotope paleo-precipitation proxies in coastal California

The following senior Honors theses were presented in spring 2019:

• Madeline Allen:   Evaluating Flood Resilience in Rural Communities: Case-Based Assessment of Dyer County, Tennessee
• Umang Chaudhry: Gentrification and Access to Public Transit in Nashville, TN
• Andrew Grant: Aerosol Salt Accumulation: An inexpensive and technically simpler tool for soil chronologies in Ong Valley, Antarctica
• Melissa Halstead: Visible signals of white-lipped peccary influence on nutrient cycling
• Matthew Martin: Four or More is a Crowd: Assessing Competition Between Australian Dasyurids Via Dental Microwear Texture Analysis
• Andrea Richardson: Geologic map of the Northeastern Unicoi and Northwestern Iron Mountain Gap Quadrangles, Tennessee Appalachians

Research Resources and Locations

Earth and Environmental Sciences is housed in Vanderbilt’s natural science complex and shares analytical equipment with the College of Arts and Science’s Chemistry department and Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering. Experimental and analytical facilities are readily accessible to graduate students. See the Research Facilities page for more information.

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Due to the interdisciplinary nature of Earth and Environmental Sciences, print books on your topic may be located across the entire library system. If you have a question as to where a book may be located, please email  Melanie Cedrone . 

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- Memoirs  - Results of long-term study of a subject; likely to remain the authoritative reference on a subject for a number of years

- Special Papers  - State-of-the-art treatments of rapidly evolving subjects; series published since 1934

- Field Guides  - Illustrated with maps and road logs; written for field trips held at GSA and other organizations’ meetings

Geological Society of London 

- Memoirs  - Memoirs are definitive treatments of their subjects by acknowledged experts in their field. They are available in print, can be searched by topic or title

- Special Papers  - They represent a state-of-the-art treatment of their subject matter.

Finding Book Material in the Libraries

Below is a list of links to a few subject specific ebook collections. There are many additional ebooks that the library has access to and they can be easily found by doing a keyword search in Franklin. The Franklin search box, located for your convenience to the left, will find both print and online books. 

Reference materials

• Annual Review Series Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field and help them keep up to date in their area of research. Reviews related to Earth & Environmental topics: - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics - Annual Review of Environment and Resources - Annual Review of Resource Economics
• Encyclopedias & Dictionaries Helpful starting points: - Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather - Encyclopedia of Earth - Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science - Oxford Companion to Global Change - Oxford Companion to the Earth - Treatise on Geochemistry - Treatise on Water Science - World scientific encyclopedia of climate change : case studies of climate risk, action, and opportunity Dictionaries - Dictionary of Earth Sciences - Dictionary of Ecology

Large Earth and Environmental Ebook packages

• Cabi ebooks A collection of agriculture, sustainability and climate change monographs.
• Earth Sciences & Geography ebooks from Springer Portal page to Springer's growing collection of Earth Science & Geography ebooks.
• Environmental Science ebooks from Springer Further narrow your search by selecting the subdiscipline on the left hand side of the page.
• Oxford Scholarship Online: Earth Sciences & Geograpy Oxford University Press tiltes.
• ElgarOnline ebooks: Environment books
• ElgarOnline ebooks: Geography
• ElgarOnline ebooks: Sustainable Development Goals
• Oxford Scholarship Online: Environmental Science Oxford University Press titles.

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What is a Literature Review?

A Literature Review Is Not:

• just a summary of sources
• a grouping of broad, unrelated sources
• a compilation of everything that has been written on a particular topic
• literature criticism (think English) or a book review

So, what is it then?

A literature review is an integrated analysis-- not just a summary-- of scholarly writings that are related directly to your research question.  That is, it represents the literature that provides background information on your topic and shows a correspondence between those writings and your research question.

A literature review may be a stand alone work or the introduction to a larger research paper, depending on the assignment.  Rely heavily on the guidelines your instructor has given you.

Why is it important?

A literature review is important because it:

• Explains the background of research on a topic.
• Demonstrates why a topic is significant to a subject area.
• Discovers relationships between research studies/ideas.
• Identifies major themes, concepts, and researchers on a topic.
• Identifies critical gaps and points of disagreement.
• Discusses further research questions that logically come out of the previous studies.

Literature Review Tutorial

1. choose a topic. define your research question..

Your literature review should be guided by a central research question.  Remember, it is not a collection of loosely related studies in a field but instead represents background and research developments related to a specific research question, interpreted and analyzed by you in a synthesized way.

• Make sure your research question is not too broad or too narrow.  Is it manageable?
• Begin writing down terms that are related to your question. These will be useful for searches later.
• If you have the opportunity, discuss your topic with your professor.

2. Decide on the scope of your review.

How many studies do you need to look at? How comprehensive should it be? How many years should it cover? 

Tip: This may depend on your assignment.  How many sources does the assignment require?

3. Select the databases you will use to conduct your searches.

Make a list of the databases you will search.  Remember to include comprehensive databases such as WorldCat and Dissertations & Theses, if you need to.

Where to find databases:

• Find Databases by Subject UWF Databases categorized by discipline
• Find Databases via Research Guides Librarians create research guides for all of the disciplines on campus! Take advantage of their expertise and see what discipline-specific search strategies they recommend!

4. Conduct your searches and find the literature. Keep track of your searches!

• Review the abstracts of research studies carefully. This will save you time.
• Write down the searches you conduct in each database so that you may duplicate them if you need to later (or avoid dead-end searches   that you'd forgotten you'd already tried).
• Use the bibliographies and references of research studies you find to locate others.
• Ask your professor or a scholar in the field if you are missing any key works in the field.
• Use RefWorks to keep track of your research citations. See the RefWorks Tutorial if you need help.

5. Review the literature.

Some questions to help you analyze the research:

• What was the research question of the study you are reviewing? What were the authors trying to discover?
• Was the research funded by a source that could influence the findings?
• What were the research methodologies? Analyze its literature review, the samples and variables used, the results, and the conclusions. Does the research seem to be complete? Could it have been conducted more soundly? What further questions does it raise?
• If there are conflicting studies, why do you think that is?
• How are the authors viewed in the field? Has this study been cited?; if so, how has it been analyzed?

Tips: 

• Again, review the abstracts carefully.  
• Keep careful notes so that you may track your thought processes during the research process.

Theme Based Organization

The most common way that literature reviews are organized it by theme. Think of "themes" are the different subheadings you will use. Within each subheadhing, you should clarify how that section relates to other articles within the other sections of your paper.

Your lit review is theme based, not author based. This template shows examples of the different ways that articles can contribute to a discussion of each theme. It is your job to draw conclusions from the relationships between the articles

Imagine that each theme is a bucket and each source fits into one bucket. The same source may fit into multiple themes and buckets.

Images from: Cisco, J. (2014). Teaching the literature review: A practical approach for college instruction. Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2 (2), 41-57.

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Earth & Environmental Sciences Research

Below are general categories of research conducted in our department. Many research groups use interdisciplinary approaches and/or conduct research on multiple topics, so they are linked to more than one research category. For each of these research themes, we provide a brief description and then provide more detailed information about subfields and researchers, with links to the associated research groups.

Environmental Geoscience

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Earth Surface Processes

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Life on Earth and Beyond

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Physics of the Earth

Computational Geoscience

History of the Earth Sciences

Studies within Minnesota

Minnesota is where we live. Several faculty members in our department conduct vital research within the State of Minnesota, very often in collaboration with the Minnesota Geological Survey (a research & service arm of the School whose purpose is to investigate the geology of Minnesota).

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Undergraduates in the Department of Earth & Environmental Science have ample opportunities to pursue Research Projects. Research with the curriculum can include Independent Studies classes or a Senior Thesis, and research outside of the curriculum can include work-study or research assistantships during the academic year or during the summer.

The Environmental Studies major (ENVS) requires a Senior Thesis as part of the major requirements. It is optional but highly encouraged for the Earth & Environmental Science major (EESC), particularly for students likely to go on to grad school, law school, med school, etc. Senior Theses require independent research over a 2 semester period, completed while taking ENVS/EESC 4997 for 1CU per semester. This is typically done during the fall and spring semesters of the senior year, but scheduling adjustments can sometimes be made to account for study abroad and other circumstances.

Course credit can sometimes be given for independent research through an Independent Study. An independent study can often be done in conjunction with a field season with one or a group of our professors and researchers. Independent Study topics vary with the interests of the students and can be individualized to focus on the student's specific interest. If you are interested in pursuing an Independent Study talk with the Associate Director or the Undergraduate Chair. They can recommend a faculty member with the same interests or field of expertise and answer your questions about the logistics of such a project. Once a topic and advisor is identified, a one-page proposal of the scope and focus of the Independent Study should be submitted to the Associate Director or the Undergraduate Chair in order to be registered for the course.

The best resource for research topics in the department is the Faculty. Many of our faculty members are involved in ongoing research in many locations worldwide and are in need of a work force for their summer excursions. Other faculty members are involved in the professional world outside of academia and have connections to various firms and corporations. Faculty members are willing to help undergraduates gain research experience. Feel free to email or stop by to talk to a professor about their research and any opening they may have on their field team or about his/her affiliations with the professional world. Other resources for research topics include Study Abroad and Internships where students immerse themselves in a particular field or culture and bring the knowledge and skills they have learned at Penn to a new setting. Many of these opportunities develop into careers for the students after they leave Penn.

Hayden Scholars

The Hayden Scholars program aims to build a community of undergraduate researchers in the geosciences at Penn through extra-curricular, independent research experiences affiliated with the Department of Earth and Environmental Science. The program will train students for success as future geoscientists through mentoring and in doing so, encourage students to go on to pursue advanced degrees in Earth science; develop collegial relationships and interactions amongst students and faculty as well as other professionals; and cultivate scientific, data analysis, presentation, networking and other workforce skills, while strengthening the Earth and Environmental Sciences undergraduate programs.

More details about the program are available at: www.curf.upenn.edu/content/hayden-scholars .

The Greg and Susan Walker Endowment for Student Research in Earth & Environmental Science

Call for proposals.

The Greg and Susan Walker Endowment was established in 2006 to provide resources to enable students in programs of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania to pursue independent research projects as part of their undergraduate and graduate curricula.

Proposals will be considered as they are submitted, ordinarily at the beginning of each academic term. Proposals will be reviewed, and funding decisions reached, by a committee of faculty and staff convened by the Department of Earth & Environmental Science.

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Below are some of our past environmental studies senior theses (student's concentration is in parentheses after their name.).

Abelanet, Alexy (Sustainability and Environmental Management) "Schuylkill River Heat Sink Study for Chilled Water Plant MOD7 at the University of Pennsylvania" Colijn, Cornelia (Global Environmental Systems) "The Effect of Urbanization on Channel Morphology and Sediment Transport patterns: Wissahickon Valley Watershed, Pennsylvania" Cooper, Will "Modeling the Potential for Urban Agricultre in Philadelphia via Multispectral Analysis in GIS" Davis, Raleigh (Global Environmental Systems) "The Contamination of Lake Atitlan: Implications and Possible Solutions"

Delphin, Naomi (Environmental Policy and Application) "Protection of Public Water Resources in Beverly, MA" Fackler, Sarah (Geology) "Holocene Sea-Level Reconstruction from the Thames Estuary, United Kingdom" Goodman, Jason (Individualized - Ethnobotany) "The Impact of Urban Greening on Tax Assessments in New Kensington, Philadelphia" Harrington, Elise (Global Environmental Systems) "Penn Park: Ecological Design in Response to Landscape Change and Policy Goals" Jansen, Nanneke (Environmental History and Regional Studies) "The Astriclypedae: Phylogenetics of Indo-Pacific, Super-Flat, Holey Sand Dollars" Koutsarova, Kristina "Effects of Available Nutrients on the Bioremediation of Louisiana Crude Oil from the BP Horison Oil Spill" Perry, Meredith (Paleobiology) "Atypical Growth Patterns in Proterozoic Carbonate Stromatolites: Analogs for Microbial Life on Mars" Piliouras, Anastasia (Environmental Studies) "The Effect of Potential Vorticity on Delta Channel Morphodynamics: Examining Elongated versus Bifurcating Behavior" Rao, Swaroop (Sustainability and Environmental Management) "Sustainability Values Integrated Across Disciplines in Early Ed. Curriculum" Renny, Jessica "Federal Policies for Promoting Large-Scale Offshore Wind Energy in the United States" Van Eaton, Will (Environmental Policy and Application) "Electric Vehicles as an Integrated System of Networked Energy Storage" Washington, Kirstin "The Geochemistry of Limestone Cave Waters: Implications for the Development of New Methods for Studying Paleoclimate" Wordell, Elizabeth (Global Environmental Systems) "Effects of Heavy Metals on Soil Microbial Activity in Palmerton, Pennsylvania"

Research Progress and Challenges on Persistent Organic Pollutants in Lakes

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• Volume 35 , pages 729–736, ( 2024 )

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• Xiaoyu Ji 1 ,
• Zhengfei Yu 1 ,
• Hongchen Jiang 2 &
• Xiangyu Guan   ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-2802-9406 1  

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Lakes are the main reservoirs of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from land, atmosphere and rivers. POPs in lakes undergo complex exchange, transformation, and degradation between water-air-sediment-biota interfaces, which are constrained and regulated by various physical, chemical and biological factors. POPs can affect ecological conditions, chemical properties of water and sediments, and biodiversity of the lake system. Therefore, it is important to study the sources, migration, transformation, environmental behavior and ecological impacts of POPs in lake ecosystems. This review summarizes research progress on detection technologies, diversity and origins, historical records, migration and transformation, distribution patterns, degradation and toxic effects of POPs in lakes. Finally, future directions related to POPs in lakes were summarized.

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• Jaeyoung Hwang
• , Seok-Woo Son
•  &  Jongsoo Shin

Comment | 19 March 2024

Effective climate action must integrate climate adaptation and mitigation

Mitigation and adaptation strategies have historically been, and continue to be, developed separately. The climate is already changing and integration of adaptation and mitigation in policy and practice is now urgently needed.

• Candice Howarth
•  &  Elizabeth J. Z. Robinson

Research Briefing | 19 March 2024

Trends in the global invention and international diffusion of methane abatement technologies

Analysis of patent data from 1990 to 2019 reveals a global decline in the invention and international diffusion of high-quality methane-targeted abatement technologies (MTATs) from 2010 to 2019. Moreover, there is a mismatch between where MTAT inventions are concentrated and the countries or regions expected to have most growth in future methane emissions.

Analysis 19 March 2024 | Open Access

Global trend of methane abatement inventions and widening mismatch with methane emissions

Innovations in methane-targeted abatement technologies (MTAT) are needed to curb climate change in the short term. This Analysis reveals the trend, distributions and diffusion of MTAT-related patents for the past few decades, highlighting the mismatch between emissions sources and technical capacity.

• Jingjing Jiang
• , Deyun Yin
•  &  Nan Zhou

Article | 15 March 2024

Historical impacts of grazing on carbon stocks and climate mitigation opportunities

Grazing has been shown to have diverse effects on soil carbon, with local variation. This study assesses carbon changes related to grazing globally and finds that, although grazing has reduced soil carbon stocks, managing intensity could increase carbon uptake in both soils and vegetation.

• , César Terrer
•  &  Dan Liu

The emerging human influence on the seasonal cycle of sea surface temperature

It is important to detect human influence on the climate, but natural variability can hide signals of change. Here the authors show the anthropogenic signal has emerged for sea surface temperature seasonality, primarily driven by greenhouse gas increases, and with geographical differences in change.

• Jia-Rui Shi
• , Benjamin D. Santer
•  &  Susan E. Wijffels

Research Briefing | 12 March 2024

An amplified groundwater recharge response to climate change

Groundwater recharge replenishes aquifers and enables them to sustain irrigated agriculture and household water access, but the sensitivity of recharge to climate change remains unclear. Our analysis of global recharge rates demonstrates their sensitivity to climatic conditions, implying that amplified and nonlinear impacts of climate change on recharge rates are likely.

Article | 12 March 2024

Groundwater recharge is sensitive to changing long-term aridity

How groundwater recharge changes with global warming is not well constrained. Here, the authors use an empirical relationship to show that groundwater recharge is more sensitive to aridity changes than expected, implying a strong response of water resources to climate change.

• Wouter R. Berghuijs
• , Raoul A. Collenteur
•  &  Scott T. Allen

Editorial | 08 March 2024

Feeding the future world

The impacts of climate change on food production will affect us all. It is important that research and funding are available to minimize these effects and support the most vulnerable.

Brief Communication | 08 March 2024

Aligning renewable energy expansion with climate-driven range shifts

The authors conduct a systematic literature review on renewable energy expansion and biodiversity. Comparing renewable energy siting maps with the ranges of two threatened species under future climates, they highlight the potential conflict and need for consideration of climate-change-driven range shifts.

• Uzma Ashraf
• , Toni Lyn Morelli
•  &  Rebecca R. Hernandez

Review Article | 08 March 2024

Education outcomes in the era of global climate change

Children’s education outcomes are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. This Review examines the impact of various climate stressors on children’s educations, develops a framework to understand these risks, and discusses methodological challenges and directions for future research.

• Caitlin M. Prentice
• , Francis Vergunst
•  &  Helen L. Berry

Review Article | 07 March 2024

River water quality shaped by land–river connectivity in a changing climate

River water quality affects water security and is expected to degrade under climate change—an issue that has garnered limited attention. Here the authors review the impacts of climate change and climate extremes on water quality, highlighting the pivotal role of land–river connectivity.

• , Julia L. A. Knapp
•  &  Wei Zhi

Research Briefing | 05 March 2024

Deforestation may cause more widespread ectotherm population decline under climate change

In a changing climate, tree trunks serve as crucial refuges for animals, particularly ectotherms, seeking to escape extreme climatic conditions. Therefore, while climate change could generally promote population growth among ectotherms, deforestation could reverse these positive effects in some populations or exacerbate the negative impacts of climate change in others.

Article | 05 March 2024

Deforestation poses deleterious effects to tree-climbing species under climate change

The authors develop a biophysical model to understand the impacts of tree loss and climate change on the activity patterns and population trends of a diurnal ectotherm (lizard). They show that deforestation can reverse the positive effects of climate change and even accelerate population declines.

• Omer B. Zlotnick
• , Keith N. Musselman
•  &  Ofir Levy

Article 01 March 2024 | Open Access

Climate threats to coastal infrastructure and sustainable development outcomes

Increasing exposure to climate hazards under climate change will disproportionately impact poor communities. This study shows that disruptions to infrastructure service threaten progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals in coastal Bangladesh, but impacts can be mediated through adaptation.

• Daniel Adshead
• , Amelie Paszkowski
•  &  Jim W. Hall

Article 27 February 2024 | Open Access

Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change

The authors use stomach contents from six fish species sampled for 12 years to show that warming shifts foraging behaviour to favour consumption of less energetically rewarding prey. Using food web models, they show that this flexible foraging could lead to reduced community biodiversity.

• Benoit Gauzens
• , Benjamin Rosenbaum
•  &  Ulrich Brose

Brief Communication 20 February 2024 | Open Access

Offshoring emissions through used vehicle exports

International trade of used vehicles lacks regulation on emissions standards. This study shows that vehicles exported from Great Britain generate substantially higher carbon and pollution emissions than scrapped or on-road vehicles.

• Saul Justin Newman
• , Kayla Schulte
•  &  Douglas R. Leasure

Article | 16 February 2024

Municipal finance shapes urban climate action and justice

City fiscal and budgetary decisions play an essential role in the success of urban climate action. Using US cities as a case study, this Article reveals the interrelationship between urban climate finance, action and justice, as well as promising pathways to transform municipal finance practices.

• Claudia V. Diezmartínez
•  &  Anne G. Short Gianotti

Article 16 February 2024 | Open Access

Over-reliance on water infrastructure can hinder climate resilience in pastoral drylands

Building additional water infrastructure such as wells is a key strategy to mitigate the impacts of severe droughts, particularly in drylands. This study shows, however, that this infrastructure can lead to loss of resilience under climate change due to erosion of traditional practices.

• Luigi Piemontese
• , Stefano Terzi
•  &  Elena Bresci

News & Views | 14 February 2024

Wetland emissions on the rise

Methane concentrations are rising faster than ever in the atmosphere. Now, a compilation of observations points towards increased methane emissions from Arctic wetlands as being partly responsible.

• Torben R. Christensen

Article 14 February 2024 | Open Access

Boreal–Arctic wetland methane emissions modulated by warming and vegetation activity

Whether methane emissions from the Boreal–Arctic region are increasing under climate change is unclear, but critical for determining climate feedbacks. This study uses observations and machine learning to show an increase in wetland methane emissions over the past two decades, with inter-annual variation.

• Kunxiaojia Yuan
•  &  Qing Zhu

Article 09 February 2024 | Open Access

Globally representative evidence on the actual and perceived support for climate action

Global support and cooperation are necessary for successful climate action. Large-scale representative survey results show that most of the population around the world is willing to support climate action, while a perception gap exists regarding other citizens’ intention to act.

• Peter Andre
• , Teodora Boneva
•  &  Armin Falk

Research Highlight | 08 February 2024

Complex drivers of droughts

• Jasper Franke

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