Advanced Energy Materials,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
13(2)
Published: Nov. 23, 2022
Abstract
Environmental
monitoring
of
local
climatic
variations
plays
a
vital
role
in
the
research
on
global
warming,
species
diversity,
ecological
sustainability,
and
so
on.
Traditional
technologies,
such
as
meteorological
stations
or
satellite
imagery,
can
give
an
overall
environment
picture
but
at
high
cost,
energy
consumption,
with
insufficient
regional
details.
Here,
networking
system
made
low‐cost,
maintenance‐free,
distributed
self‐powered
wireless
nodes
is
proposed,
aimed
establishing
sensing
for
long‐term
wide‐area
monitoring.
It
demonstrated
that,
driven
by
gentle
wind,
these
are
able
to
monitor
temperature,
humidity,
atmospheric
pressure
automatically,
then
transfer
data
receiving
terminals
wirelessly
using
triboelectric
nanogenerators
harvesting
technologies.
The
longest
transmitting
distance
2.1
km.
Additionally,
network
formed.
By
utilizing
several
nodes,
2‐km
2
region
covered,
information
be
transmitted
live
relay‐technology.
Furthermore,
node
work
weeks,
continuously
send
back
environmental
data.
Since
portable
embedded
sensors
customizable,
it
anticipated
that
multifunctional
applied
many
natural
areas,
forests,
prairies,
mountains,
lake
regions,
The
biogeochemical
coupling
of
soil
carbon,
nitrogen,
and
phosphorus
(C-N-P)
cycles
is
crucial
for
maintaining
the
ecological
balance
boreal
forests.
Yet,
current
understanding
wildfire
disturbance
only
based
on
changes
in
elemental
contents,
thereby
lacking
any
within-ecosystem
corroboration
coupling.
Here,
we
conducted
a
field
survey
microbial
functional
associations
53
genes
related
to
C-N-P
cycling
from
17
locations
spanning
30
year
succession
period
after
high-severity
forest
fires
Greater
Khingan
Mountains
(Inner
Mongolia-China).
We
found
that
bacteria
proliferated
dominated
competition
with
fungi
by
encoding
recalcitrant
C
decomposition,
N
fixation,
inorganic
during
postfire
early
succession.
Wildfire
prominently
decoupled
cycling,
particularly
organic-inorganic
turnover.
However,
over
period,
these
recoupled
both
organic
mineral
horizons.
Notably,
decoupling
recovered
faster
than
imbalance.
This
strong
resilience
microbiome
will
aid
recovery
ecosystem
stability
increased
intensity
wildfires
projected
forests
China.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
1517(1), P. 44 - 62
Published: Sept. 2, 2022
Abstract
Climate
change
is
drastically
altering
the
frequency,
duration,
and
severity
of
compound
drought‐heatwave
(CDHW)
episodes,
which
present
a
new
challenge
in
environmental
socioeconomic
sectors.
These
threats
are
particular
importance
low‐income
regions
with
growing
populations,
fragile
infrastructure,
threatened
ecosystems.
This
review
synthesizes
emerging
progress
understanding
CDHW
patterns
Brazil
while
providing
insights
about
impacts
on
fire
occurrence
public
health.
Evidence
mounting
that
heatwaves
becoming
increasingly
linked
droughts
northeastern
southeastern
Brazil,
Amazonia,
Pantanal.
In
those
regions,
recent
studies
have
begun
to
build
better
physical
mechanisms
behind
events,
such
as
soil
moisture–atmosphere
coupling,
promoted
by
exceptional
atmospheric
blocking
conditions.
Results
hint
at
synergy
between
events
high
activity
country
over
last
decades,
most
example
being
catastrophic
2020
fires
Moreover,
we
show
HWs
were
responsible
for
increasing
mortality
preterm
births
during
record‐breaking
Brazil.
work
paves
way
more
in‐depth
their
impacts,
crucial
enhance
adaptive
capacity
different
Brazilian
Environmental Science & Technology,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
56(20), P. 14315 - 14325
Published: Oct. 6, 2022
The
lifecycle
of
black
carbon
(BC)-containing
particles
from
biomass
burns
is
examined
using
aircraft
and
surface
observations
the
BC
mixing
state
for
plume
ages
∼15
min
to
10
days.
Because
nonvolatile
chemically
inert,
changes
in
BC-containing
are
driven
solely
by
particle
coating,
which
mainly
secondary
organic
aerosol
(SOA).
coating
mass
initially
increases
rapidly
(kgrowth
=
0.84
h–1),
then
remains
relatively
constant
1–2
days
as
dilution
no
longer
supports
further
growth,
decreases
slowly
until
only
∼30%
maximum
after
(kloss
0.011
h–1).
ratio
coating-to-core
a
with
100
nm
mass-equivalent
diameter
core
reaches
∼20
few
hours
drops
∼5
aging.
initial
increase
can
be
used
determine
SOA
formation
rates.
slow
loss
material,
not
captured
global
models,
comprises
dominant
fraction
these
particles.
Coating-to-core
ratios
stratosphere
much
greater
than
those
free
troposphere
indicating
different
lifecycle.
Advanced Energy Materials,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
13(2)
Published: Nov. 23, 2022
Abstract
Environmental
monitoring
of
local
climatic
variations
plays
a
vital
role
in
the
research
on
global
warming,
species
diversity,
ecological
sustainability,
and
so
on.
Traditional
technologies,
such
as
meteorological
stations
or
satellite
imagery,
can
give
an
overall
environment
picture
but
at
high
cost,
energy
consumption,
with
insufficient
regional
details.
Here,
networking
system
made
low‐cost,
maintenance‐free,
distributed
self‐powered
wireless
nodes
is
proposed,
aimed
establishing
sensing
for
long‐term
wide‐area
monitoring.
It
demonstrated
that,
driven
by
gentle
wind,
these
are
able
to
monitor
temperature,
humidity,
atmospheric
pressure
automatically,
then
transfer
data
receiving
terminals
wirelessly
using
triboelectric
nanogenerators
harvesting
technologies.
The
longest
transmitting
distance
2.1
km.
Additionally,
network
formed.
By
utilizing
several
nodes,
2‐km
2
region
covered,
information
be
transmitted
live
relay‐technology.
Furthermore,
node
work
weeks,
continuously
send
back
environmental
data.
Since
portable
embedded
sensors
customizable,
it
anticipated
that
multifunctional
applied
many
natural
areas,
forests,
prairies,
mountains,
lake
regions,
