Peer-reviewed Study Archives - Page 47 of 51

Land, irrigation water, greenhouse gas, and reactive nitrogen burdens of meat, eggs and dairy production in the United States

Published:August 2014

Author(s):Gidon Eshel, Alon Shepon, Tamar Makov, and Ron Milo

Publisher:PNAS

This study's calculations reveal that the environmental costs per consumed calorie of dairy, poultry, pork, and eggs are mutually comparable (to within a factor of 2), but strikingly lower than the impacts of beef.Read More →

Measuring the Burden of Disease Due to Climate Change and Developing a Forecast Model in South Korea

Published:August 2014

Author(s):S.-J. Yoon, I.-H. Oh, H.-Y. Seo, E.-J. Kim

Publisher:Journal of Public Health

This study quantified the burden of disease caused by climate change in Korea, and provides valuable information for determining the priorities of environmental health policy in East Asian countries with similar climates.Read More →

Regional Rainfall Decline in Australia Attributed to Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Levels

Published:July 2014

Author(s):Thomas L. Delworth, Fanrong Zeng

Publisher:Nature Geoscience

This study analyzes the decline in precipitation in southern Australia in the past few decades using a global climate model, demonstrating that the decline is in response to anthropogenic changes in atmospheric greenhouse gas and ozone levels.Read More →

Quantifying greenhouse gas fluxes in agriculture and forestry : methods for entity-scale inventory

Published:July 2014

Author(s):United States Department of Agriculture - Climate Change Program Office

Publisher:USDA Technical Bulletin 1939

The objective for this report is to create a standard set of GHG estimation methods for use by USDA, landowners, and other stakeholders to assist them in evaluating the GHG impacts of their management decisions.Read More →

Beyond Climatological Extremes— Assessing how the Odds of Hydrometeorological Extreme Events in South-East Europe Change in a Warming Climate

Published:June 2014

Author(s):Sebastian Sippel, F E. L. Otto

Publisher:SpringerLink

This study describes the methodology of probabilistic event attribution to evaluate occurrence probabilities of extreme weather events, and estimates the hazard probabilities of those events in South-East Europe. Read More →

Climate‐related range shifts – a global multidimensional synthesis and new research directions

Published:April 2014

Author(s):J. Lenoir, J.-C. Svenning

Publisher:Ecography - Nordic Society Oikos

This paper proposes a uniﬁed classiﬁcation of geographical patterns of species range shifts, arranged in a bi-dimensional space deﬁned by species’ persistence and movement rates. Read More →

Ruminants, climate change and climate policy

Published:January 2014

Author(s):Ripple, William J; Smith, Pete; Haberl, Helmut; Montzka, Stephen A; Mcalpine, Clive

Publisher:Nature Climate Change

Reductions in global ruminant numbers could make a substantial contribution to climate change mitigation goals and yield important social and environmental co-benefits. Read More →

Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems

Published:December 2013

Author(s):Mario Herrero, Petr Havlík, Hugo Valin, An Notenbaert, Mariana C. Rufino, Philip K. Thornton, Michael Blümmel, Franz Weiss, Delia Grace, and Michael Obersteiner

Publisher:PNAS

This report is unique in presenting a high-resolution dataset of biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions by global livestock.Read More →

Tracing Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide and Methane Emissions from Fossil Fuel and Cement Producers, 1854–2010

Published:November 2013

Author(s):Richard Heede

Publisher:Climatic Change

This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the historic fossil fuel and cement production records of the leading producers of oil, natural gas, coal, and cement from as early as 1854 to 2010.Read More →

A unifying view of climate change in the Sahel linking intra-seasonal, interannual and longer time scales

Published:April 2013

Author(s):A Giannini, S Salack, T Lodoun, A Ali, A T Gaye and O Ndiaye

Publisher:Environmental Research Letters

This study proposes a re-interpretation of the oceanic influence on the climate of the African Sahel that is consistent across observations and that resolves the uncertainty in projections change in this region. Read More →