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IPCC special report on carbon dioxide capture and storage
Prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this report assesses the current state of knowledge regarding the technical, scientific, environmental, economic, and ...
Climate Extremes: Observations, Modeling, and Impacts
One of the major concerns with a potential change in climate is that an increase in extreme events will occur. Results of observational studies suggest that in many areas that h...
Nanobeam Mechanics: Elasticity, Strength, and Toughness of Nanorods and Nanotubes
The Young's modulus, strength, and toughness of nanostructures are important to proposed applications ranging from nanocomposites to probe microscopy, yet there is little direct...
Environmental and Health Impacts of Air Pollution: A Review
One of our era's greatest scourges is air pollution, on account not only of its impact on climate change but also its impact on public and individual health due to increasing mo...
Pandemics, tourism and global change: a rapid assessment of COVID-19
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is challenging the world. With no vaccine and limited medical capacity to treat the disease, nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPI) are the main ...
Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
This concise collection of the most important international law instruments is an essential resource for all students of international law. In addition to standard instruments s...
The role of renewable energy in the global energy transformation
This paper explores the technical and economic characteristics of an accelerated energy transition to 2050, using new datasets for renewable energy. The analysis indicates that ...
Carbon capture and storage (CCS): the way forward
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is vital to climate change mitigation, and has application across the economy, in addition to facilitating atmospheric carbon dioxide removal re...