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Melting glaciers and the loss of seasonal snow pose significant risks to the stability of water resources in South Asia. The 55,000 glaciers in the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Hindu Kush (HKHK) mountain ranges store more freshwater than any region outside of the North and South Poles. Their ice...
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BackgroundAs air pollution has been paid more attention to by public in recent years, effects and mechanism in particulate matter-triggered health problems become a focus of research. Lysosomes and mitochondria play an important role in regulation of inflammation. Interleukin-33 (IL-33) has been...
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degradation, and the fossil fuel-based capitalist world economy are interrelated. It uses these insights to critique the emerging … climate-vulnerable states and peoples. The article argues that racialized communities all over the world have borne the brunt … of carbon capitalism from cradle (extraction of fossil fuels) to grave (climate change) and that a race …
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In addition to being a hazardous air pollutant, Black Carbon is the second-largest contributor to Arctic warming. Its mitigation is being addressed at the international regulatory level by the Arctic Council and the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). Whilst the...
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Globally, cities are the source of over 70 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Cities are also the engines … of the global economy, concentrating more than half the world's population, and they are where the middle class is … rapidly expanding. Indeed, by the year 2050, two-thirds of the world will be urban, with cities accommodating an additional 2 …
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