Cities worldwide are experiencing increased extreme heat due to the synergistic effects of global warming and the urban heat island (UHI) effect (1, 2).According to Tuholske et al. (), global exposure ...

The growth rate of the atmospheric abundance of methane (CH 4) reached a record high of 15.4 ppb yr −1 between 2020 and 2022, but the mechanisms driving the accelerated CH 4 growth have so far been ...

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82272567, 82472525), the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Jiangsu Medical ...

Understanding urban vegetation dynamics and their impacts on urban heat mitigation is essential for guiding sustainable urban development. Analyzing high-resolution EVI data from 11,235 urban areas ...

The work was supported by the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics at Northwestern University and the Procter & Gamble Company. We sincerely thank Dr. Steve Xu, Chief Executive Officer of ...

To better understand the potential health threats and underlying visual pathways of long-term light at night (LAN) exposure, we adopted a widely accepted diurnal animal model tree shrew (Tupaia ...

A simple measure of forest structure which allows a quantification of forest change over large spatial scales is tree cover. Tree cover often relates to forest biomass carbon and the risk of forest ...

Cotyledon greening is a crucial process for seedlings to survive the dark-to-light transition during their soil emergence. While the complex strategies employed by etiolated seedlings to ensure ...

The prevailing hypothesis suggests that life was extinguished in the Red Sea when sea level fell at least 110-m below present at the end of the Last Glacial period. This sterilization is thought to ...

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These questions also matter for fisheries and a sustainable pet trade. Without knowing which populations seed the most babies into the next generation, fishermen can’t know where is safe to cast nets ...

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