In Los Angeles (LA), addressing air pollution has been an ongoing challenge for many decades, with a particular focus on emissions from motor vehicles. Disadvantaged communities (DACs) in the city are confronted with a wide range of socio-economic challenges, including high levels of poverty, unemployment, and limited access to essential healthcare...
Published in E3S Web of Conferences
Merauke Regency is the main rice-producing center in the southern region of Papua and the largest rice contributor for the provinces of South Papua and Papua, with 55,674.75 hectares of paddy field area, 76 percent (42,387 hectares) of which located in three districts, namely Kurik, Semangga and Tanah Miring District. This study aims to inventory a...
Published in Environmental Research Letters
Northern high-latitude lakes are critical sites for carbon processing and serve as potential conduits for the emission of permafrost-derived carbon and greenhouse gases. However, the fate and emission pathways of permafrost carbon in these systems remain uncertain. Here, we used the natural abundance of radiocarbon to identify and trace the predomi...
Plastic recycling presents a vexing challenge. Mechanical recycling offers substantial greenhouse gas emissions savings relative to virgin plastic production but suffers from degraded aesthetic and mechanical properties. Polypropylene, one of the most widely used and lowest-cost plastics, features methyl pendants along the polymer backbone, renderi...
For millennia, agriculture has been shaping landscapes on Earth. Technological change has increased agricultural productivity dramatically, especially in the past six decades, but also resulted in trade-offs such as land and soil degradation, emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs), and spreading of toxic substances. In this article we review the impac...
Published in Frontiers in Water
An ever-increasing demand for protein-rich food sources combined with dwindling wild fish stocks has caused the aquaculture sector to boom in the last two decades. Although fishponds are potentially strong emitters of the greenhouse gas methane (CH4), little is known about the magnitude, pathways, and drivers of these emissions. We measured diffusi...
Climate change is undeniably one of the most pressing and critical challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. In this context, monitoring the Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI) is fundamental in conjunction with greenhouse gases (GHGs) in order to comprehensively understand and address climate change. The French Uvsq-Sat NG pathfinder mission addr...
Also available from the CIMMYT Repository: https://hdl.handle.net/10883/22721 / In this blog, A. G. Adeeth Cariappa discusses how carbon credits can be used to incentivize farmers to adopt measures that can support climate change mitigation and how agricultural extension can spread the word.
Published in Frontiers in Digital Health
Introduction In the midst of a global climate emergency and with health care systems across the world facing extreme pressure, interest in digital approaches as a potential part-solution to these challenges has increased rapidly. The evidence base to support the role that digitalization can play in moving towards more sustainable models of healthca...
Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
This paper examines the environmental effects of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) water bottles used by tourists in Dubai. Unfortunately, tourists residing in Dubai hotels must depend on these single-use plastic water bottles that have negative environmental impacts associated with their production and disposal. Thus, the government of Dubai launch...
