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In September 2025, the Fifth World Congress of Biosphere Reserves (the 5th WCBR) was held in Hangzhou, China, where landmark outcomes such as the Hangzhou Strategic Action Plan and the Hangzhou Declaration were released. The World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR) is the core vehicle of UNESCO's "Man and the Biosphere Programme" (MAB). As two significant international agendas, the synergy be...
On September 18, a collaborative study by Professor Zhang Qiang’s team from the Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University, and Associate Professor Zheng Bo’s team from the Institute of Environment and Ecology, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, titled “Global warming amplifies wildfire health burden and reshapes inequality”, was published online as an “Ac...
Against the backdrops of climate change, large-scale extreme wildfires are becoming more frequent, with profound consequences for the global carbon cycle, ecosystems, air quality, and public health. Accurately and swiftly assessing the air pollution and health risks associated with these events is crucial for improving wildfire monitoring and early warning systems, and for safeguarding populati...
Aerosol-cloud interactions (ACI) are considered to potentially offset the radiative forcing of greenhouse gas-induced warming in the Earth-atmosphere system. The increase in anthropogenic aerosols affects the size distribution of cloud droplets (cloud droplet spectrum) in water clouds, leading to changes in cloud radiative forcing. This process, known as the dispersion effect (DE), is a critica...
Yu Le’s Research Group from Tsinghua DESS Reveals Spatial Patterns of African Slums and Releases High-Resolution Distribution MapsUrban slums represent a critical challenge in contemporary global urbanization, where service deprivation and spatial inequalities are growing increasingly severe. These issues undermine progress toward sustainable urban development. According to UN-Habitat definiti...
Against the backdrop of global warming, the diversity of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has drawn increasing attention in the fields of climate prediction and disaster risk management. Westerly Wind Bursts (WWBs), as highly stochastic atmospheric transient processes in the tropical Pacific, have been widely discussed for their role in triggering El Niño events and influencing their ty...
Thermal power, steel, cement, and other key global industries, as critical areas for climate governance, account for over 50% of global anthropogenic emissions. Currently, these sectors are undergoing strategic transitions involving large-scale facility retirements or low-carbon retrofits. Traditionally, decisions on facility retirement or retrofitting have been based on technical indicators su...
Under the dual pressures of climate change and urbanization, urban thermal environments face severe challenges. Trees, as a core element of Nature-based Solutions (NBS), have attracted significant attention for their notable cooling effects. However, current research on the relationship between tree cooling effects and tree height, especially at large scales, remains insufficient, and the under...
