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The global geography of threats to freshwater biodiversity
Reference #1 Editor’s summary Abstract Threats to freshwater species across space Increasing threat probability is linked to extinction risk and population decline Freshwater species are more affected than terrestrial species Improving spatial threat mapping Conservation implications Acknowledgments Supplementary Materials References and Notes eLetters (0) Information & Authors Metrics & Citations View Options References Figures Tables Media Share This article has 0 eLetter .
Accelerated Himalayan river meandering and dynamics due to climate change
Editor’s summary Structured Abstract Abstract Supplementary Materials References and Notes Information & Authors Metrics & Citations Check Access References Figures Tables Media Share Editor’s summary High mountain ranges are particularly sensitive to climate change, and their landscapes provide an early warning for how surface processes may shift with warming. Using 40 years of satellite imagery, Lin et al.
New coasts emerging from the retreat of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers in the twenty-first century - Nature Climate Change
Abstract Accelerated climate warming has caused the majority of marine-terminating glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere to retreat substantially during the twenty-first century. While glacier retreat and changes in mass balance are widely studied on a global scale, the impacts of deglaciation on adjacent coastal geomorphology are often overlooked and therefore poorly understood.
Mapping the Global Impact of Mining Activities on Freshwater Biodiversity to Inform Conservation Priorities
1 Introduction Mining provides the raw ingredients needed to sustain modern economies and societies (UNEP 2024). Coal is the primary source of energy in most parts of the world (Tiwary 2001), aggregates are critical to the construction industry (Torres et al. 2017), and rare-earth minerals are essential for renewable energy technologies (Dutta et al. 2016).
‘DeltaCAN - A new data set of Canadian Arctic and subarctic coastal deltas’ - Scientific Data
Abstract Arctic coasts constitute the critical interface between land and sea, and are subject to rapid changes caused by a warming climate. Current trends throughout the Arctic show increasing erosion trends, while other parts of the coast are experiencing prograding trends. Until now, a vast majority of our knowledge of Arctic coastal evolution is confined to site-specific studies with limited geospatial representation.
Opportunistic climate adaptation and public support for sand extraction in Greenland - Nature Sustainability
Abstract Climate change leads to the deposition of substantial amounts of sediment along the coasts of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) amid rapidly growing global demand for these resources. Yet, little is known about what the predominantly Inuit population of Kalaallit Nunaat thinks about adaptation opportunities arising from the melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
It’s time to make science in remote places family-friendly Original
We are two early-career scientists and mothers who regularly conduct fieldwork in the Arctic, where travel can take days, and is often weather-dependent and limited to a few months of the year. As with other fieldwork locations, there are often no stores or services available nearby, and mobile or Internet connections are frequently dependent on satellite communication, if available at all. To thrive and survive in academia, researchers must overcome numerous obstacles.
Promises and Perils of Sand Exploitation in Greenland
A 'Perspective' in Nature Sustainability is "meant to stimulate discussion" and "can advocate a controversial position". Our Perspective (Bendixen et al. 2019 Nature Sustainability) did indeed gain attention and stimulated discussion - after all, it is rather controversial to suggest, Greenland can potentially benefit from the consequences of climate change by supplying an increasingly starving world market with sand.
How the pandemic could choke gender equity for female researchers in Denmark
Steps towards gender parity could implode thanks to consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.Credit: Getty Denmark has lagged behind many European Union countries on achieving gender balance in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM). Female researchers in the country account for 33% of associate professor positions and 22% of full professorships.
Denmark’s exemplary gender balance trips up in science
CORRESPONDENCE 06 August 2019 Denmark is among the world’s leading scientific countries in terms of output, citations and funding (Nature 569, 470–471; 2019). Despite this, and the country’s renowned high level of equality, its gender balance in science lags embarrassingly behind that in many other European Union countries.
One couple, two cities: How to handle an international career move
Mette Bendixen and Lars Iversen enjoy family time with their son in Boulder, Colorado. Credit: Peter Lønsmann Iversen Mette Bendixen is a physical geographer and postdoctoral scholar at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at the University of Colorado Boulder. She and her husband, Lars Iversen, an ecologist and landscape geographer, co-authored an October 2017 Nature paper1 about the effects of climate change on the coasts of Greenland.
Promises and perils of sand exploitation in Greenland
Abstract Ice flow dynamics of the Greenland ice sheet control the production of sediment. Future acceleration in glacial flow and ice sheet melt will amplify Greenland’s supply of sediment to the coastal zone. Globally, sand and gravel reserves are rapidly depleting while the demand is increasing, largely due to urban expansion, infrastructural improvements and the enhancement of coastal protection in response to climate change.
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Greenland: Build an economy on sand
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