This paper focused on energy consumption and carbon emission for heating and cooling during a building’s operation stage, and examined the energy effects of using Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) as an alternative building material to reinforced concrete (RC) in China’s 31 key cities located in different climate zones. The authors designed two seven-story residential buildings, which were construct...

Andesites are refined and “cold” magmas compared to their basaltic parents, yet large volumes of andesites generated at continental arcs. We show that andesitic plutons favored when arc crust attains a thickness ~60 km while mafic small is thin. Using simple thermal models, we large, long-lived relatively cold partially molten zones, sustained by recharge hydrous magmas, depth thick due the red...

Antarctic marine ectotherms look back on several million years of adaptation to constant extreme cold temperatures. By contrast, animals from temperate zones face high summer and below 0°C temperatures in winter. Here, we present recent data on mitochondrial ROS production in animals from both climatic environments, and a concept of mitochondrial proton leak as part of thermal adaptation in bot...

I)rawing on recent research in the Horn ofAfrica, emer€dng patterns of managing forced migration in the post-Cold Mrar landscape are identified and ana\'2e6. 1,1,n,t" .amps continue to house refugees, tbe rneaning and value of'rcfugee' have changed drarnatically since the Cold War. Efforts to prevent people frorn crossing political borders to seek safety are increasing, gir.ing rise to a new se...

The health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians may be exacerbated by climate change if temperature extremes have disproportionate adverse effects on Indigenous people. To explore this issue, we analysed the effect of temperature extremes on hospital admissions for respiratory diseases, stratified by age, Indigenous status and sex, for people living in two different climates zo...

Original scientific paper Evaluating the deterioration of ecological environment and vegetation of coalfields caused by China’s large-scale coal mining activities is important because of the fragile ecological environment and low temperature in cold and arid areas. This study takes the open coal pits of Haizhou, Gulianhe, and Huolinhe as examples and proposes a method for evaluating their ecolo...

Hybrid zones contain extensive standing genetic variation that facilitates rapid responses to selection. The Picea glauca × Picea engelmannii hybrid zone in western Canada is the focus of tree breeding programs that annually produce ~90 million reforestation seedlings. Understanding the direct and indirect effects of selective breeding on adaptive variation is necessary to implement assisted ge...