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Protected areas, typically considered a cornerstone of conservation programs, play a fundamental role in protecting natural areas and biodiversity. Human-driven land-use and land-cover (LULC) changes lead to habitat loss and biodiversity loss inside protected areas, impairing their effectiveness. Habitat quality and habitat degradation can reflect the impact of LULC changes on habitat. However,...
On the morning of June 24, a meeting conflating the National Science and Technology Conference, the National Science and Technology Awards Conference, and the general assemblies of the members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering was held in Beijing. Professor Zhang Qiang from the Department of Earth System Science (DESS) of Tsinghua University was awarded t...
Vigorously developing renewable energy represented by solar and wind power is a necessary approach for promoting greenhouse gas emission reduction in the context of achieving the Paris Agreement climate targets. However, due to meteorological conditions, wind and solar power resources exhibit considerable intermittency and instability. Amidst the backdrop of climate change, extreme weather/clim...
With increasing urban heat events under the impact of climate change, urbanization and other factors, air conditioning (AC) has become key equipment to maintain indoor thermal comfort. Yet the usage of AC can also exacerbate outdoor heat stress and burden the electricity system during the peak period. Due to the present lack of quantitative research on the indoor and outdoor thermal comfort cha...
Forest carbon sinks, a key component of the global land sink, are vital in efforts to mitigate climate change. In recent decades, large-scale ecological conservation and restorations projects have been implemented in China, forming a complex forest age structure while increasing land carbon sinks. The present forests in China are mainly composed of young and middle-aged, featuring high carbon s...
Cropland is a foundation for human survival and development. Accurate, detailed, and up-to-date information on cropland extent is crucial for accurate agricultural layout, and the assessment of food security. However, due to the lack of accuracy, robustness and transferability in traditional cropland mapping methods, it remains challenging to monitor cropland dynamics at high spatial and tempor...
A long term global daily soil moisture dataset derived from AMSR-E and AMSR2 released by the National Tibetan Plateau Data Center (TPDC) (https://data.tpdc.ac.cn) has recently realized near-real-time daily updating. The current product can provide global daily soil moisture data two days after the passage of a satellite.Based on AMSR-E/AMSR 2 Brightness Temperature (TB), this product uses a com...
Many economies set climate mitigation targets for 2020 at the 2009 15th Conference of the Parties conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen (COP15), which has become an important milestone in the global climate mitigation actions. How to track the completion of climate mitigation targets in countries around the world and analyze the climate mitigation...
