Biological Sciences / Sustainability Science -- New results matching your topic search. https://www.pnas.org/action/doSearch?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Sustainability Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences en-US http://www.atypon.com/images/atypon_logo_small.gif http://www.atypon.com https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1718945115?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 115, Issue 24, Page 6243-6248, June 2018. <br/>SignificanceThis study is a multigeneral circulation model, multiscenario modeling exercise developed to quantify the dengue-related health benefits of limiting global warming to 1.5–2.0 °C above preindustrial levels in Latin America and the Caribbean. We ... Limiting global-mean temperature increase to 1.5–2 °C could reduce the incidence and spatial spread of dengue fever in Latin America doi:10.1073/pnas.1718945115 2018-05-23T07:00:00Z Felipe J. Colón-González, Ian Harris, Timothy J. Osborn, Christine Steiner São Bernardo, Carlos A. Peres, Paul R. Hunter, Rachel Warren, Detlef van Vuurene, and Iain R. LakeaSchool of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom;bTyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom;cLaboratorio de Mastozoologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Ambientais, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Cavalhada, Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil 78200-000;dNorwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United KingdomeDepartment of Climate, Air, and Energy, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Bezuidenhoutseweg 30, The Hague, Netherlands Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 24 6243 6248 2018-06-12T07:00:00Z 2018-06-12T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.1718945115 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1718945115?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1703167114?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 114, Issue 19, Page 4887-4892, May 2017. <br/>SignificanceChina’s coal-based synthetic natural gas (SNG) projects can reduce air pollution and associated premature mortality by substituting for direct coal use in power, industry, and households. These benefits, however, come with increased CO2... Air quality, health, and climate implications of China’s synthetic natural gas development doi:10.1073/pnas.1703167114 2017-04-24T07:00:00Z Yue Qin, Fabian Wagner, Noah Scovronick, Wei Peng, Junnan Yang, Tong Zhu, Kirk R. Smith, and Denise L. MauzerallaWoodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544;bAndlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544;cInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria;dState Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;eBeijing Innovation Center for Engineering Science and Advanced Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;fSchool of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360;gDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 19 4887 4892 2017-05-09T07:00:00Z 2017-05-09T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.1703167114 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1703167114?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.0810076106?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 106, Issue 15, Page 6082-6087, April 2009. <br/>One-third of net CO2emissions to the atmosphere since 1850 are the result of land-use change, primarily from the clearing of forests for timber and agriculture, but quantifying these changes is complicated by the lack of historical data on both former ... Historical forest baselines reveal potential for continued carbon sequestration doi:10.1073/pnas.0810076106 2009-04-14T07:00:00Z Jeanine M. Rhemtulla, David J. Mladenoff, and Murray K. Clayton aDepartment of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2K6; and Departments of bForest and Wildlife Ecology and cPlant Pathology and Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 15 6082 6087 2009-04-14T07:00:00Z 2009-04-14T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.0810076106 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.0810076106?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.0704488104?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 104, Issue 36, Page 14272-14276, September 2007. <br/>This work addresses the impacts of development at the wildland–urban interface on forest fires that spread to human habitats. Catastrophic fires in the western United States and elsewhere make these impacts a matter of urgency for decision makers, ... Development at the wildland–urban interface and the mitigation of forest-fire risk doi:10.1073/pnas.0704488104 2007-09-04T07:00:00Z Vassilis Spyratos, Patrick S. Bourgeron, and Michael Ghil †Environmental Research and Teaching Institute, ‡Physics Department, and ¶Earth-Atmosphere-Ocean Department and Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace), Ecole Normale Supérieure, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France; §Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, UCB 450, Boulder, CO 80309; and ‖Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 36 14272 14276 2007-09-04T07:00:00Z 2007-09-04T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.0704488104 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.0704488104?af=R