With its burgeoning energy consumption and emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), China is central to addressing the problem of climate change. As the world leader in GHG emissions for years, China is under tremendous international pressure in the fight against climate change. Focusing on China's coal-to-chemicals industriesa major user of coal and significant contributor to GHG and other emiss...

Soil tillage practices have a profound influence on the physical properties of soil and the greenhouse gas (GHG) balance. However there have been very few integrated studies on the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) and soil biophysical and chemical characteristics under different soil management systems. We recorded a significantly higher net global warming...

Agriculture is vulnerable to climate change and a source of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Farmers face pressures to adjust agricultural systems to make them more resilient in the face of increasingly variable weather (adaptation) and reduce GHG production (mitigation). This research examines relationships between Iowa farmers' trust in environmental or agricultural interest groups as sources of clim...

The livestock and poultry production industry, regulatory agencies, and researchers lack a current, science-based guide and data base for evaluation of air quality mitigation technologies. Data collected from science-based review of mitigation technologies using practical, stakeholders-oriented evaluation criteria to identify knowledge gaps/needs and focuses for future research efforts on techn...

Global construction industry has a huge influence on world primary energy consumption, spending, and greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions. To better understand these factors for mass timber construction, this work quantified the life cycle environmental economic performances of high-rise building in U.S. Pacific Northwest region through use life-cycle assessment (LCA) cost analysis (LCCA). Using TRA...

The paper determines the effect of selected cultivation technologies, including production chain energy inputs (growing, harvest, heap forming) on greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) to atmosphere. data for study was collected from 13 actually operating family farms ranging in size 2 ha, located Podlaskie voivodship (Poland). GHG and ammonia (NH3) natural mineral fertilisation as well GHGs carriers...

Abstract Purpose Environmental sustainability is a growing concern to healthcare providers, given the health impacts of climate change and air pollution, sizable footprint delivery itself. Though many studies have focused on environmental footprints operating rooms, few quantified emissions from inpatient stays. This study quantifies solid waste greenhouse gas (GHGs) per bed-day in regular (low...

The recovery of fibres from waste paper (WP) and deinking sludge (DIS) reduces the stress on nature compared to collection virgin pulp for production. Moreover, if not recycled, WP DIS are mainly landfilled incinerated, being thus responsible release greenhouse gases (GHGs) into atmosphere. In this context, energy would contribute increasing independence improving management in industry. From a...

This paper aims to better understand why there was a global warming pause in 2000-2015 and the mean surface temperature (GMST) has risen again recent years. We present statistically analyze substantial time-series observed datasets of lower stratospheric (GLST), troposphere-stratosphere climatology, land air temperature, GMST, sea ice extent (SIE) snow cover (SCE), combined with modeled calcula...

Even if on-board mm-wave/THz heterodyne receivers have been developed to measure greenhouse gases (GHGs) atmospheric profiles, rotational spectroscopy rests under-exploited for their monitoring unlike IR rovibrational spectroscopy. The present study deals with the ability of THz using long interaction path-lengths GHG laboratory investigations. High-resolution signatures non-polar molecules may...