GX & Decarbonization Research

Jean-Daniel Bontemps, Anaîs Denardou, Jean-Luc Dupouey

French temperate forests have acted as a carbon sink for 150 years, accumulating carbon equivalent to 10.5% of cumulative fossil emissions. Forest expansion, management extensification, and environmental changes contributed to biomass incre…

Gilvan Lopes Serafim Filho, Rejane Magalhães de Mendonça Pimentel, Josiclêda Domiciano Galvíncio

This study quantifies carbon sequestration by urban avenue trees, finding 505 trees absorb about 2.2 tons CO2-eq annually. It links leaf morphology to pollution response, underscoring urban afforestation as a climate mitigation and public h…

Kubicová J.

This paper empirically tests the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) and Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH) using greenhouse gas emissions data from Slovakia. It analyzes the relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation, a…

Dorothy Menefee, Hal Collins, Doug Smith

In a rainfed maize–cotton rotation in Central Texas, static chamber measurements over three growing seasons showed that tillage practices (conventional, strip, no-till) had no significant effect on soil GHG fluxes (CO2, CH4, N2O). N2O emiss…

Roberto Tognetti, Chiara Torresan

This scoping review synthesizes 1990-2025 literature on climate-smart forestry (afforestation, reforestation, conservation, restoration) for carbon sequestration in boreal and temperate forests. Studies concentrate in Europe and North Ameri…

Andrew Elohim Laloo, Abhishek Gupta, Valeria Verrone +16

This study reveals that iron (Fe(III)) stimulates microbial decomposition of organic matter in Southeast Asian tropical peatlands, leading to several-fold higher CO2 and CH4 production. Multi-omics analysis links gas emissions to carbohydra…

Sibylle Rouet-Pollakis, David Leclère, Marta Kozicka +13

This report develops and quantifies value-explicit transformative pathways (VITAL-Paths-Food) for food and biomass systems, based on IPBES Transformative Change assessment. Three pathways meet biodiversity, climate, and well-being goals whi…

Sigyel Delma, Don Gilmour, Katherine Warner +2

This study analyzes 25 years of land use change in Bhutan, showing increases in forest and shrubland areas due to agricultural abandonment and reduced grazing. It estimates that incorporating regenerating forests into community forests coul…

Fabien Ferchaud, Gwenaëlle Lashermes, Nicolas Munier-Jolain +1

This paper re-evaluates tillage as a strategic practice in agroecological systems, highlighting its role in weed and pest control and cover crop management in pesticide-free systems. Synthesizing recent findings, it shows that tillage affec…

Wang Xuyang

This field experiment in arid Xinjiang compared soil greenhouse gas emissions from mulched and non-mulched maize and cotton plots. Plastic mulching increased yields but altered emission patterns, providing insights for GHG mitigation in cro…

V. V. Kuzovkin, S.M. Semenov

Empirical analysis of monthly mean methane concentrations from 69 global GAW/WMO stations reveals nonlinear long-term trends (including the 1999-2006 pause) and latitude-dependent intra-annual variability. High correlation with CO2 variabil…

V.V. Kuzovkin, С. М. Семенов

This paper analyzes monthly mean methane concentrations from the GAW/WMO global monitoring network, assessing long-term trends and intra-annual variability. Long-term trends are non-linear but similar across most stations, with a few region…

Rebecca Philipsborn, Kevin Chan

This review examines how climate change threatens global child health gains, including heat exposure, infectious disease, malnutrition, and displacement. Children, especially in low-income countries, bear a disproportionate burden, and the …

Thomas J. Mozdzer, Ben Donnelly, Michael J. Blum +1

Rapid evolution of foundation species can alter ecosystem processes such as carbon cycling and storage under global change. Integrating evolutionary biology into ecosystem models improves predictions of ecosystem responses, with implication…

Han Chuqiao

This study analyzes land cover changes and their impacts on terrestrial carbon storage in the Turpan-Hami Basin, China, using the PLUS-InVEST model. It simulates future carbon storage under multiple scenarios, offering insights for carbon n…

Weier K.L.

This paper questions whether sugarcane fields act as sources or sinks of greenhouse gases, examining the carbon balance of agricultural land and its climate impact. As no abstract is provided, specific findings are unknown, but the work lik…

Anil Kumar, Nishma Dahal, Sangeet Lamichhaney +1

This review argues that microbial communities in recently deglaciated forefields act as active ecosystem engineers, driving soil formation, nutrient cycling, carbon storage, and plant establishment, yet their contributions are often ignored…

Duncan N. L. Menge, Carla R. Reis Ely, Steven S. Perakis +22

This study quantifies the global carbon investment in biological nitrogen fixation (BNF). They find that in non-agricultural biomes, BNF investment relative to net primary productivity is higher in less-productive, higher-latitude regions, …

Rui Jiang, Chun Liang, Zichun Guo +4

This study investigates how parent material influences the formation pathways of mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC), proposing a 'mineral sieve mechanism' that selectively retains certain organic compounds on mineral surfaces. The fin…

Caroline Gottschalk, Emily H. Stanley, Eric G. Booth +1

This study compared geomorphic form and CO2/CH4 diffusive fluxes between a restored reach and unrestored reference reaches in karst agricultural streams in Wisconsin over multiple floods. Restoration had limited geomorphic effects but was a…