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Lin Guanghui’s Research Group of DESS, Tsinghua University discloses the seasonal variation pattern and driving mechanism of carbon and water fluxes of subtropical mangroves Mangroves, as one type of coastal “blue carbon” ecosystems, are highly efficient as carbon sinks, playing an important role in sequestering carbon dioxide and mitigating global climate change. Due to the lack of long-ter...
Mangroves, as an important part of coastal wetlands, play an important role in wind and wave resistance, protecting embankments and maintaining biodiversity, as well as sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and mitigating global climate change. However, over the past few decades, with the construction of large-scale seawater aquaculture ponds for the development of aquaculture, the cove...
The iron and steel industry, with carbon dioxide emissions contributing about 25% of the total industrial emissions in the world, is the industry with the highest carbon emissions in the global industrial sector. Urbanization and industrialization in the recent decades have led to a sharp increase in steel demand, which has in turn promoted the construction of a large number of steel production...
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) known as “Asia’s Water Tower” is one of the regions in China where lakes are most densely distributed. Recent decades have seen obvious changes in the water levels and areas of lakes on the TP, drawing special attention to the hydrologic budget process of the plateau lakes. Lake surface evaporation, as an important part in water balance, is affected by the radiation ...
According to UN-Habitat, at present 1 billion people worldwide live in slums or informal settlements, which number is expected to hit 3 billion in the future three decades. The problems for slums such as poverty, natural disasters, hygiene, health and diseases have become key issues of concern for the global sustainable development goals.Due to the lack of basic information concerning the spati...
China has made significant progress in alleviating air pollution since 2013, but the annual mean fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration remains six times higher than current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, seriously compromising public health. Meanwhile, the aging population will be increasingly vulnerable to air pollution, lending urgency further and constant air quality imp...
The Southeast Tibetan Plateau (SETP) is a major region where many glaciers are located. Recent years have seen the significant shrinkage of glaciers in the SETP, posing a serious threat to downstream water resources. Glaciers in the SETP are mainly accumulated in spring and summer and predominantly in spring in some areas. Therefore, studying the changes of spring precipitation in the SETP is o...
The Chinese space station “Tiangong”, a modular space station system built by China since 2021, is the third large-scale in-orbit space experiment platform built by mankind since the Mir Space Station in 1986 and the International Space Station in 1998. Prof. Liu Zhu's Team of the Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University cooperated with Dong Xiuzhu, a researcher from the...
