A key reason is that the unique complexity of the Earth system, and the unprecedentedness of likely climate change over the next century, mean the economic value of future climate damage cannot be estimated by normal scientific methods.
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Climate Data Empathy
Climate data should not be seen just as values of physical variables. Climate data are societal products, and the historical and present-day contexts that are imprinted on climate data are important in their own right.
Heat Under Your Feet Identifies Groundwater Flow
In many cases, standard approaches for analysing temperature-depth profiles to trace groundwater flow are now invalid because climate change has warmed the land surface and created an inversion in the geothermal gradient.
Improving Management of Water Distribution Systems by Understanding Microbial Ecology
Operators are now increasingly being held accountable to ensure delivered water is safe for human consumption, yet little is understood on how to best to manage these living engineered systems.
Maturation of pre-40S Particles in Yeast and Humans
The intricate nuclear and cytoplasmic maturation steps of pre‐40S particles, the precursors to the small ribosomal subunits, in both yeast and human cells, are reviewed.
Viruses as Controllable Nanodevices
Physical, chemical, and synthetic virology work together to reprogram viruses as controllable nanodevices.
Who Gives A Dam About Beavers?
Working with beavers could help us to design holistic urban and suburban green spaces in the future.
Tools to Assess Effects of Variable Renewable Energy Generation on Power/Energy Systems
To meet the challenges in increasing VRE generation, there is a need to develop models and tools to analyze its variability and uncertainty.
Systems Biology of Robustness and Homeostatic Mechanisms
All organisms are subject to large amounts of genetic and environmental variation and have evolved mechanisms that allow them to function well in spite of these challenges. This property is generally referred to as robustness.
Membraneless Nuclear Organelles and the Search for Phases Within Phases
An analysis of nuclear body protein disorder that suggests MLO proteomes are significantly more disordered than structured cellular features.