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COVID-19 lockdowns cause global air pollution declines

Significance The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented reductions in economic activity. We find that, after accounting for meteorological variations, lockdown events…
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Urban nature in a time of crisis: recreational use of green space increases during the COVID-19 outbreak in Oslo, Norway

The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it significant changes to human mobility patterns and working environments. We aimed to explore how social distancing measures affected…
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Drivers of woody plant encroachment over Africa

It is reported that woody vegetation cover over sub-Saharan Africa increased by 8% over the past three decades and that a diversity of drivers, other than CO2, were able to explain 78% of the spatial variation in this trend.
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Crowdsourced air temperatures contrast satellite measures of the urban heat island and its mechanisms

The control of aerodynamic roughness on UHI intensity is confirmed, but evaporative cooling is found to have a stronger overall impact during this time period, support urban greening as an effective UHI mitigation strategy and caution against relying on satellite data for urban heat risk assessments.
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Green Apartheid: Urban green infrastructure remains unequally distributed across income and race geographies in South Africa

Urban green infrastructure provides ecosystem services that are essential to human wellbeing. A dearth of national-scale assessments in the Global South has precluded the ability to explore how…
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The impact of crop rotation on soil microbial diversity: A meta-analysis

It is determined whether decreased aboveground crop diversity affects belowground microbial biodiversity by conducting a meta-analysis of studies comparing monocultures and crop rotations to based taxonomic richness and diversity indices on both molecular and biochemical fingerprinting methods.
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Hyperlocal mapping of urban air temperature using remote sensing and crowdsourced weather data

Abstract The impacts of climate change such as extreme heat waves are exacerbated in cities where most of the world's population live. Quantifying urbanization impacts on ambient air temperatures…
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Global 10 m Land Use Land Cover Datasets: A Comparison of Dynamic World, World Cover and Esri Land Cover

The European Space Agency’s Sentinel satellites have laid the foundation for global land use land cover (LULC) mapping with unprecedented detail at 10 m resolution. We present a cross-comparison and…
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Linking green infrastructure to urban heat and human health risk mitigation in Oslo, Norway.

The results indicate that maintaining and restoring tree cover provides an ecosystem service of urban heat reduction, and has particular relevance for health benefit estimation in urban ecosystem accounting and municipal policy decisions regarding ecosystem-based climate adaptation.
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Continental-scale land cover mapping at 10 m resolution over Europe (ELC10)

This work presents a 10 m resolution land cover map (ELC10) of Europe based on a satellite-driven machine learning workflow that is annually updatable and holds potential for aerial statistics at the city borough level and monitoring propertylevel environmental interventions (e.g., tree planting).
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