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Stem respiration, which releases carbon dioxide, is one of the important carbon emission sources in terrestrial ecosystems. Traditional views hold that rising temperatures will sharply enhance respiration, thereby exacerbating climate warming. However, recent studies have shown that plants can adjust to the warming environment through thermal acclimation. While thermal acclimation of respiratio...
Mitigating climate change can enhance public health by reducing air pollution emissions, promoting green travel, and adjusting healthy dietary structures, which will provide stronger incentives for carrying out climate actions. The COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate and Health calls for formulating and implementing carbon emission reduction policies that maximize health co-benefits. Therefore, it...
The "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework" (KM-GBF), championed by China in its capacity as chair country, has been recognized by the international community as a historic achievement in reversing the accelerated global trend of biodiversity loss. Among its ambitious targets, Action Target 3’s “30×30” commitment - protecting 30% of Earth's land and oceans by 2030 - presents an unpr...
Understanding and predicting the adaptive responses of plants to global changes and their impacts on the carbon cycle of terrestrial ecosystems have always been a central topic in global change ecology. Earth system models are important tools for quantitative research on this topic. Traditional land surface components of Earth system models typically assume constant functional traits, such as m...
Infrastructure serves as the cornerstone of social development. Ensuring fair access to and use of infrastructure for residents is crucial for achieving sustainable development and promoting public health. However, research on the relationship between global infrastructure and human health remains significantly insufficient.To fill this gap, the research team led by Professor Xu Bing from the D...
Recently, the China Meteorological Forcing Data (CMFD) Version 2.0, jointly developed by the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University, has been publicly released. Users can download the data from the National Tibetan Plateau Data Center. CMFD is a set of high-precision, high-resolution, and long-ti...
A team of international researchers has published a perspective article in Environmental Research Letters, advocating for a commonly accepted definition of resilience and a unified research framework for studying tipping points.The study, led by Professor Chuixiang Yi of Queens College, City University of New York, brings together experts from top institutions worldwide to address inconsistenci...
Accurate weather forecasts are important for disaster prevention, agricultural planning, and water resource management. Traditional numerical weather prediction (NWP) methods offer physically interpretable high-accuracy predictions but are computationally expensive and fail to fully leverage rapidly growing historical data. In recent years, deep learning methods have made significant progress i...
