
Human activities have become a dominant force shaping the Earth system, with profound and potentially irreversible consequences.


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Seven of nine planetary life-support systems may be breached, but we can all become the positive tipping point

Earth Health Report: The Patient Is In Critical Condition

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Humanity's Unprecedented Impact on the Earth System: A Critical Assessment


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Changing the world requires challenging our assumptions and deeply understanding the underlying complexities beyond surface-level issues.


The power of Life’s Formula and the invisible forces that shape our planet

What Does It Really Take To Change The World?

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Challenging Assumptions: The Complexity of Driving Meaningful Change



Reversing environmental damage is far more challenging than creating it, as seen in the complexities of recycling and deconstructing various products.


Creating environmental problems is easy, but undoing them is hard

How It’s Unmade

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The Challenges of Undoing Environmental Damage: Insights from "How It's Made"



Climate warming stimulates ecosystem respiration in tundra, leading to increased carbon release into the atmosphere, with the magnitude and persistence of this effect driven by local soil conditions and nutrient dynamics.


Datasets from in situ warming experiments across 28 arctic and alpine tundra sites covering  a span of less than 1 year up to 25 years show the importance of local soil conditions and warming-induced changes&nbsp;therein for future climatic impacts on&nbsp;ecosystem respiration.

Environmental drivers of increased ecosystem respiration in a warming tundra - Nature

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Increased Ecosystem Respiration in Warming Tundra: Environmental Drivers and Implications



Enhanced rock weathering (EW) is a simple technology that can simultaneously address climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and improve global food security by releasing essential minerals to fertilize the soil.


The Climate crisis & world hunger could be a thing of the past.

This Simple Technology Could Save The World In Two Ways

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Enhanced Rock Weathering: A Promising Solution to Climate Change and Global Hunger



Pre-trained weather models enhance global vegetation modeling, improving NDVI estimates.


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Global Vegetation Modeling with Pre-Trained Weather Transformers at ICLR 2024 Workshop



The author argues that drought conditions are a significant factor in promoting overnight burning, challenging traditional fire management practices and the diurnal fire cycle model.


By examining the hourly diurnal cycle of 23,557 fires in North America during 2017–2020, 1,095 overnight burning events were identified, mostly associated with extreme fires and&nbsp;driven by long-term drought conditions.

Drought triggers and sustains overnight fires in North America - Nature

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Unveiling the Impact of Drought on Overnight Fires in North America



The author proposes a new methodological framework for extreme quantile regression using neural networks to capture complex non-linear relationships and improve predictive performance.


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Regression Modelling of Extreme U.S. Wildfires Using Neural Networks



The author introduces Environmental Insights, an open-source Python package, to democratize access to air pollution concentration data and enable forecasting of future conditions through machine learning models.


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Democratizing Access to Ambient Air Pollution Data with Environmental Insights



The author argues that rising sea levels and coastal subsidence pose a significant threat to major US coastal cities, with potential consequences for population and property.


High-resolution vertical land motion and elevation datasets combined with projections of sea-level rise of 32 major US coastal cities shows that a considerable amount of land area, population, and properties are threatened by relative sea-level rise by 2050.

Disappearing cities on US coasts - Nature

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Rising Sea Levels Threaten US Coastal Cities by 2050
