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  • Most of the meteorites on the Earth’s surface are found in Antarctica. Here the authors show that ~5,000 meteorites become inaccessible per year as they melt into the ice due to climate change.

    • Veronica Tollenaar
    • Harry Zekollari
    • Frank Pattyn
    Brief CommunicationOpen Access
  • The authors conduct a systematic literature review on renewable energy expansion and biodiversity. Comparing renewable energy siting maps with the ranges of two threatened species under future climates, they highlight the potential conflict and need for consideration of climate-change-driven range shifts.

    • Uzma Ashraf
    • Toni Lyn Morelli
    • Rebecca R. Hernandez
    Brief Communication
  • International trade of used vehicles lacks regulation on emissions standards. This study shows that vehicles exported from Great Britain generate substantially higher carbon and pollution emissions than scrapped or on-road vehicles.

    • Saul Justin Newman
    • Kayla Schulte
    • Douglas R. Leasure
    Brief CommunicationOpen Access
  • The authors investigate the impacts of excluding ecosystem data from Russian stations in the Arctic. While the current network of Arctic stations is already biased, the exclusion of Russian stations lowers representativeness and creates further biases that can rival end-of-century climate change shifts.

    • Efrén López-Blanco
    • Elmer Topp-Jørgensen
    • Niels M. Schmidt
    Brief CommunicationOpen Access
  • The increase in atmospheric methane has been accelerating since 2007, and identifying drivers is critical for climate mitigation. In this study, the authors show that the expansion of rice cultivation in Africa accounts for 7% of rising emissions.

    • Zichong Chen
    • Nicholas Balasus
    • Daniel J. Jacob
    Brief Communication