Enhancing climate neutrality and resilience through coordinated climate action: review of the synergies between mitigation and adaptation actions

GL Kyriakopoulos, I Sebos - Climate, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recently, reported long-term climate change consequences, such as rising temperatures
and melting glaciers, have emphasized mitigation and adaptation actions. While moderating …

Lignocellulosic agricultural waste valorization to obtain valuable products: An overview

A Blasi, A Verardi, CG Lopresto, S Siciliano… - Recycling, 2023 - mdpi.com
The sustainable management of lignocellulosic agricultural waste has gained significant
attention due to its potential for the production of valuable products. This paper provides an …

A survey of visual transformers

Y Liu, Y Zhang, Y Wang, F Hou, J Yuan… - … on Neural Networks …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transformer, an attention-based encoder–decoder model, has already revolutionized the
field of natural language processing (NLP). Inspired by such significant achievements, some …

Vulnerability of blue foods to human-induced environmental change

L Cao, BS Halpern, M Troell, R Short, C Zeng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Global aquatic or 'blue'foods, essential to over 3.2 billion people, face challenges of
maintaining supply in a changing environment while adhering to safety and sustainability …

Data-driven predictions of the time remaining until critical global warming thresholds are reached

NS Diffenbaugh, EA Barnes - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Leveraging artificial neural networks (ANNs) trained on climate model output, we use the
spatial pattern of historical temperature observations to predict the time until critical global …

Change in cooling degree days with global mean temperature rise increasing from 1.5 C to 2.0 C

ND Miranda, J Lizana, SN Sparrow… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Limiting global mean temperature rise to 1.5° C is increasingly out of reach. Here we show
the impact on global cooling demand in moving from 1.5° C to 2.0° C of global warming …

Electricity and heat demand in steel industry technological processes in Industry 4.0 conditions

B Gajdzik, R Wolniak, WW Grebski - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
The publication presents heat and electricity management in the Polish steel industry. The
paper is based on actual data on heat and electricity consumption and intensity by …

Climate change exacerbates snow-water-energy challenges for European ski tourism

H François, R Samacoïts, DN Bird, J Köberl… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Ski tourism is a substantial component of the economy of mountainous regions in Europe
and is highly vulnerable to snow scarcity, which is increasing due to climate change …

[HTML][HTML] A framework for integrating ecosystem services indicators into vulnerability and risk assessments of deltaic social-ecological systems

Y Peng, N Welden, FG Renaud - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to increasing population pressure and urbanization, as well as global climate change
impacts, many coastal river deltas are experiencing increased exposure, vulnerability and …

Hybrid photothermal–photocatalyst sheets for solar-driven overall water splitting coupled to water purification

C Pornrungroj, AB Mohamad Annuar, Q Wang… - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
Photocatalytic water splitting converts sunlight directly into storable hydrogen, but commonly
involves the use of pure water and land for plant installation while generating unusable …