The participation of the general public in the research design, data collection and
interpretation process together with scientists is often referred to as citizen science. While …

Like other countries, the United Kingdom faces the unavoidable challenge of adapting to a
changing climate. However, public perceptions of the risk posed by climate change and …

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach for transforming and reorienting agricultural
systems to support food security under the new realities of climate change. Widespread …

This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) again forms the standard scientific reference for all those concerned with the …

The inexorable demographic momentum of the global human population is rapidly eroding
Earth's life-support system. There are consequently more frequent calls to address …

Increasingly severe drought has not only threatened food security but also resulted in
massive socio-economic losses. In the face of increasingly serious drought conditions, the …

Rising temperatures in the Arctic can affect soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition directly
and indirectly, by increasing plant primary production and thus the allocation of plant …

The environmental challenges that confront society are unprecedented and staggering in
their scope, pace and complexity. Unless we reframe and examine them through a social …

摘要利用西南60 多年干旱灾情资料, 计算了干旱受灾率, 成灾率, 绝收率和综合损失率,
分析了中国西南地区干旱灾害规律特点并对成因进行探讨. 结果表明, 西南近60 年干旱灾害范围 …

We integrated the evidence for evolutionary and plastic trait changes in situ in response to
climate change in freshwater invertebrates (aquatic insects and zooplankton). The synthesis …