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Nature Climate Change July 2021

Volume 11 Issue 7, July 2021 Water-table impact on peat emissions The climate impact of water-table drawdown in peatlands is unclear as carbon dioxide emissions increase and methane emissions decrease due to drying. Writing in this issue, Huang et al. show that decreasing water-table depth results in net greenhouse gas…

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Communications Earth & Environment: 28 June 2021

Table of Contents: June 2021 Article | 24 June 2021 Dominant role of vertical air flows in the unprecedented warming on the Antarctic Peninsula in February 2020 Min Xu, Lejiang Yu, Kaixin Liang, Timo Vihma, Deniz Bozkurt et al. Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 133 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00203-w Article | 23…

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Nature Energy, June 2021

Volume 6 Issue 6, June 2021 Heavy-duty charging The electrification of trucks is an important step towards transport decarbonization. Borlaug et al. use real-world drive-cycle data from short-haul trucking operations to simulate different fleet charging strategies and then assess their infrastructure needs, estimating that most substations can currently support charging…

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Daily Energy News

Policy & Regulatory Argentina strengthens Ieasa’s control over the energy sector 22 Jun 2021 The Argentinian government has granted greater power to the state-owned power utility Ieasa (former Enarsa), strengthening the development capacity of the company in the national energy sector and repealing a previous administration’s plan to privatise US$1bn…

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Daily Energy News

Policy & Regulatory Turkey will launch a voluntary green certificate scheme 18 Jun 2021 The Turkish energy exchange company Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) will launch the Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin (YEK-G) system on 21 June 2021. The voluntary scheme will provide companies and households with proof of origin of power generated…

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Nature Sustainability, June 2021

Volume 4 Issue 6, June 2021 Ocean litter Using comprehensive data, the study by González-Fernández and colleagues estimates the extent to which riverine floating macrolitter across Europe is transferred to the ocean while the article by Morales-Caselles and co-authors finds that global marine litter is dominated by plastics from take-out…

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Nature Reviews Earth & Environment June 2021

Volume 2 Issue 6, June 2021 As June is Pride month, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment celebrates and embraces the LGBTQ+ geoscience community. See Editorial. Image: zorazhuang/Getty images. Cover design: Carl Conway. Editorial Editorial | 14 June 2021 Pride in geoscience For Pride month, we celebrate our LGBTQ+ colleagues, recognise…

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Daily Energy News

Policy & Regulatory Brazil registers 94 GW of projects for the A-5 auction in September 2021 11 Jun 2021 The Brazilian state-owned company Energy Research Office (EPE) has registered 1,694 projects totalling 93,859 MW for the A-5 new energy auction, expected on 30 September 2021, including 52 gas-fired power projects totalling 34.6 GW,…

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Nature ecology & evolution,june 2021

Volume 5 Issue 6, June 2021 Flexible pollinators Female longhorn bee (Melissodes sp.) on orange sneezeweed (Hymenoxys hoopesii) at Hannagan Meadow in Arizona. Native bees that are flexible in their interaction patterns are able to colonize different habitat patches in the landscape. This interaction flexibility could be a potential mechanism…

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Nature Climate Change June 2021

Volume 11 Issue 6, June 2021 Cloud feedbacks Whether clouds will warm or cool the planet under climate change is uncertain. Writing in this issue, two separate studies investigate the climate impacts of clouds. Mülmenstädt et al. show that overestimates of precipitation from warm clouds lead to substantial biases in…

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Daily Energy News

Policy & Regulatory Canada unveils a US$795m renewable investment program 4 Jun 2021 The Canadian government plans to invest CAD964m (US$795m) over four years to support smart renewable energy and grid modernization projects. The Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways Program aims to lower emissions by investing in clean energy technologies, like…

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Daily Energy News

Policy & Regulatory Angola unveils a new Nationally Determined Contribution 2 Jun 2021 Angola has unveiled a new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). The country commits to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2025 below a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario by 14% using its domestic resources (unconditional target) or by 24% with international support…

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Communications earth & environment

Table of Contents: May 2021 Author Correction | 26 May 2021 Author Correction: Evolution of aseismic slip rate along plate boundary faults before and after megathrust earthquakes Toshihiro Igarashi & Aitaro Kato Communications Earth & Environment 2 , Article number: 103 |  doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00186-8 Comment | 26 May 2021 Downside up: Science matters…

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Nature Energy, Mayo 2021

Volume 6 Issue 5, May 2021 Preventing the cross-over Polysulfide-based redox flow batteries have great potential for grid-scale storage, but they suffer from performance deterioration primarily due to active species cross-over through membranes. Yi-Chun Lu and team develop a Nafion-based membrane that prevents the cross-over and enables these batteries to…

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Nature Sustainability – May 2021

Volume 4 Issue 5, May 2021 Engineering orbital orientation for greener battery cathode chemistry The current reliance of the cathode of lithium-ion batteries on cobalt poses challenges in terms of sustainability. Xia and colleagues engineer the atomic orbitals to realize a high-performance cathode that is based on environmentally friendly and…

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Nature Reviews Earth & Environment May 2021

Volume 2 Issue 5, May 2021 Successful discovery and operation of geothermal resources requires a thorough understanding of the heterogeneous geological subsurface. This Review discusses the key geological factors that contribute to the effective exploration of intermediate- to high-temperature geothermal resources used for power generation and direct use applications. See…

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