Advances in Selective Electrochemical Oxidation of 5‐Hydroxymethylfurfural to Produce High‐Value Chemicals

L Guo, X Zhang, L Gan, L Pan, C Shi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The conversion of biomass is a favorable alternative to the fossil energy route to solve the
energy crisis and environmental pollution. As one of the most versatile platform compounds …

Assessing “dangerous climate change”: Required reduction of carbon emissions to protect young people, future generations and nature

J Hansen, P Kharecha, M Sato, V Masson-Delmotte… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate
data. We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple …

Human population reduction is not a quick fix for environmental problems

CJA Bradshaw, BW Brook - Proceedings of the National …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

Final countdown for biodiversity hotspots

JC Habel, L Rasche, UA Schneider… - Conservation …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Most of Earth's biodiversity is found in 36 biodiversity hotspots, yet less than 10% natural
intact vegetation remains. We calculated models projecting the future state of most of these …

Guns versus climate: How militarization amplifies the effect of economic growth on carbon emissions

AK Jorgenson, B Clark, RP Thombs… - American …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Building on cornerstone traditions in historical sociology, as well as work in environmental
sociology and political-economic sociology, we theorize and investigate with moderation …

Synchronized peak-rate years of global resources use

R Seppelt, AM Manceur, J Liu, EP Fenichel, S Klotz - Ecology and Society, 2014 - JSTOR
Many separate studies have estimated the year of peak, or maximum, rate of using an
individual resource such as oil. However, no study has estimated the year of peak rate for …

Green goals and full employment: Are they compatible?

M Antal - Ecological Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
Two empirical correlations are studied: one between economic growth and environmental
impacts, and the other between the lack of economic growth and unemployment. It is …

Systematizing ecosystem change in coastal social-ecological systems: Perspectives from a multi-stakeholder approach in Nakatsu mudflat, Japan

S Chakraborty, T Yamamori, J Su, BA Johnson… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Coastal social-ecological systems (SES) are essential for the wellbeing of coastal
communities and the wider society. However, in many parts of the world coastal SES face …

Economic vulnerability to peak oil

C Kerschner, C Prell, K Feng, K Hubacek - Global environmental change, 2013 - Elsevier
Peak Oil, which refers to the maximum possible global oil production rate, is increasingly
gaining attention in both science and policy discourses. However, little is known about how …

Ensemble learning approach for probabilistic forecasting of solar power generation

A Ahmed Mohammed, Z Aung - Energies, 2016 - mdpi.com
Probabilistic forecasting accounts for the uncertainty in prediction that arises from inaccurate
input data due to measurement errors, as well as the inherent inaccuracy of a prediction …