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The Hot Summer of 2010: Redrawing the Temperature Record Map of Europe
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The summer of 2010 was exceptionally warm in eastern
Europe and large parts of Russia. We provide evidence
that the anomalous 2010 warmth that caused adverse
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Climate Change, Climate, Climate Impacts, Special Feature
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Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions
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It has been suggested that tropical forest and savanna could represent alternative stable states,
implying critical transitions at tipping points in response t...
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Time to Adapt to a Warming World, But Where’s the Science?
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With dangerous global warming seemingly inevitable, users of climate information—
from water utilities to international aid workers—are turning to climate ...
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The 2010 Amazon Drought
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Several global circulation models (GCMs)
project an increase in the frequency and
severity of drought events affecting the
Amazon region as a consequence of ...
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Climate Outlook Looking Much The Same, or Even Worse
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Climate scientists have been feverishly preparing analyses for inclusion in the fifth climate assessment report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
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Models, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Climate and society
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The Global Extent and Determinants of Savanna and Forest as Alternative Biome States
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Theoretically, fire–tree cover feedbacks can maintain savanna and forest as alternative stable states.
However, the global extent of fire-driven discontinuit...
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Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance
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The United Nations conference in Rio de
Janeiro in June is an important opportunity
to improve the institutional framework
for sustainable development.
VO...
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Impacts of Biodiversity Loss
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How much diversity is needed to maintain
the productivity of ecosystems?
VOL 336 SCIENCE
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Generic Indicators for Loss of Resilience Before a Tipping Point Leading to Population Collapse
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Theory predicts that the approach of catastrophic thresholds in natural systems (e.g., ecosystems,
the climate) may result in an increasingly slow recovery fro...
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Ocean Salinities Reveal Strong Global Water Cycle Intensification During 1950 to 2000
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Fundamental thermodynamics and climate models suggest that dry regions will become drier
and wet regions will become wetter in response to warming. Efforts to ...
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The Greenhouse Is Making the Water-Poor Even Poorer
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How bad will global warming get? The question
has long been cast in terms of how hot
the world will get. But perhaps more important
to the planet’s inhabit...
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Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands
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Experiments suggest that biodiversity enhances the ability of ecosystems to maintain multiple
functions, such as carbon storage, productivity, and the buildup ...
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Financial Costs of Meeting Global Biodiversity Conservation Targets: Current Spending and Unmet Needs
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World governments have committed to halting human-induced extinctions and safeguarding
important sites for biodiversity by 2020, but the financial costs of mee...
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Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security
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Tropospheric ozone and black carbon (BC) contribute to both degraded air quality and global
warming. We considered ~400 emission control measures to reduce the...
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Carbon Storage with Benefits
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Biochar—a material related to charcoal—has the potential to benefit farming as well as mitigate climate change.
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Charcoal, Carbon sink, Carbon stocks, Climate Change, Biochar, Agriculture, Carbon policy
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Biotic Multipliers of Climate Change
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A focus on species interactions may improve predictions of the effects of climate change
on ecosystems.
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Predicted change, Extinction risk, Cascade Cascading effects, Vegetation, Movement, Diversity loss, Plant migration, Human-occupied landscapes, Community compos...
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Old Trees: Extraction, Conservation Can Coexist
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BECAUSE LARGE OLD TREES ARE ESSENTIAL FOR FOREST ECOSYSTEM INTEGRITY AND BIODIVERsity,
timber extraction in managed forests should preferentially be concentrat...
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What Does Zero Deforestation Mean?
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Ambiguous defi nitions and metrics create risks
for forest conservation and accountability.
SCIENCE VOL 342
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Physical Laws Shape Biology
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IN THE PERSPECTIVE “A DYNAMICAL-SYSTEMS VIEW OF STEM CELL
biology” (12 October 2012, p. 215), C. Furusawa and K. Kaneko discuss
the relevance of dynamic s...
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Water in the Balance
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Satellite data may enable improved management of regional groundwater reserves.
VOL 340 SCIENCE
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