Urban areas are hot spots that drive environmental change at multiple scales. Material
demands of production and human consumption alter land use and cover, biodiversity, and …

Urbanization, an important driver of climate change and pollution, alters both biotic and
abiotic ecosystem properties within, surrounding, and even at great distances from urban …

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Thoughtful leaders increasingly recognize that we are not only failing to solve the persistent
problems we face, but are in fact causing them. System dynamics is designed to help avoid …

Direct evidence demonstrates that urban and industrial air pollution can completely shut off
precipitation from clouds that have temperatures at their tops of about–10° C over large …

The science of ecology was born from the expansive curiosity of the biologists of the late
19th century, who wished to understand the distribution, abundance and interactions of the …

A new species of Archaea grows at pH∼ 0.5 and∼ 40° C in slime streamers and attached to
pyrite surfaces at a sulfide ore body, Iron Mountain, California. This iron-oxidizing Archaeon …

From climate change, deforestation, and depletion of fossil fuels to overexploited fisheries,
species extinction, and poisons in our food and water, our society is unsustainable and it is …

Nitrogen oxides (NO+ NO 2= NO x and reservoir species) are important trace gases in the
troposphere with impact on human health, atmospheric chemistry and climate. Besides …

Aerosols are formed, evolve, and are eventually removed within the general circulation of
the atmosphere. The characteristic time of many of the microphysical aerosol processes is …