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Walter Leal Filho, Julian Hunt and Marina Kovaleva
This Communication reports on the increases in the sizes of garbage patches, and their environmental implications, outlining the dimensions of what is a growing problem connected with the ?plastisphere?. The paper presents some data on the distribution o...
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Walter Leal Filho, Ismaila Rimi Abubakar, Cintia Nunes, Johannes (Joost) Platje, Pinar Gökcin Ozuyar, Markus Will, Gustavo J. Nagy, Abul Quasem Al-Amin, Julian David Hunt and Chunlan Li
The rapidly increasing global populations and socio-economic development in the Global South have resulted in rising demand for natural resources. There are many plans for harvesting natural resources from the ocean floor, especially rare metals and mine...
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Serafino Afonso Rui Mucova, Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro, Walter Leal Filho, Carina Lurdes Lopes, João Miguel Dias and Mário Jorge Pereira
Mean sea-level is expected to rise significantly by 2100 in all scenarios, including those compatible with the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement. Global sea level rise projections indicate devastating implications for populations, ecosystem servi...
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Walter Leal Filho, Murukesan Krishnapillai, Henry Sidsaph, Gustavo J. Nagy, Johannes M. Luetz, Jack Dyer, Michael Otoara Ha?apio, Peni Hausia Havea, Kushaal Raj, Priyatma Singh, Tom Rogers, Chunlan Li, Monica K. Boodhan, Franziska Wolf, Desalegn Yayeh Ayal and Hossein Azadi
Small Island States (SIDS) are among the nations most exposed to climate change (CC) and are characterised by a high degree of vulnerability. Their unique nature means there is a need for more studies focused on the limits to CC adaptation on such fragil...
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Walter Leal Filho, Svenja Scheday, Juliane Boenecke, Abhijit Gogoi, Anish Maharaj and Samuela Korovou
Climate change is known to affect Pacific Island nations in a variety of ways. One of them is by increasing the vulnerability of human health induced by various climate change impacts, which pose an additional burden to the already distressed health syst...
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Chunlan Li, Walter Leal Filho, Jun Wang, Hubert Fudjumdjum, Mariia Fedoruk, Richa Hu, Shan Yin, Yuhai Bao, Shan Yu and Julian Hunt
To improve how extreme events and climate variations are managed, there is a need to foster a deeper understanding of their interconnections. Consistent with this objective, this paper describes how precipitation extremes change both temporally and spati...
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Walter Leal Filho, Leyre Echevarria Icaza, Victoria Omeche Emanche and Abul Quasem Al-Amin
The impacts of climate changes on cities, which are home to over half of the world?s population, are already being felt. In many cases, the intensive speed with which urban centres have been growing means that little attention has been paid to the role p...
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