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Avoiding ecosystem and social impacts of hydropower, wind, and solar in Southern Africa’s low-carbon electricity system

Avoiding the most damaging land use and freshwater impacts of solar PV, wind, and hydropower development while halving carbon emissions by 2040 in the Southern Africa region is not only possible but incurs only modest (3-6%) system cost increases.

Grace C. Wu
Ranjit Deshmukh
Kudakwashe Ndhlukula
ResearchOpen Access05 Feb 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-13
Widely tunable and narrow-linewidth violet lasers enabled by UV-transparent materials

Integrating UV lasers is of interest for portable optical clocks and ion-based quantum computers, but material absorption has impeded progress. Here, authors demonstrate a violet integrated laser using UV-transparent materials with mW-level output, narrow linewidth and precise frequency control.

C. A. A. Franken
W. A. P. M. Hendriks
K.-J. Boller
ResearchOpen Access21 Nov 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-9
Half a degree and rapid socioeconomic development matter for heatwave risk

Climate extremes, exposure and vulnerability all contribute to global difference in heatwave risk. Here the authors investigated the inequality in global heatwave risk under both 1.5 and 2 °C scenarios and found that heatwave risk for the poor under 1.5 °C scenario exceeds that risk for the rich under 2 °C scenario.

Simone Russo
Jana Sillmann
Brian O’Neill
ResearchOpen Access11 Jan 2019
Nature Communications

Volume: 10, P: 1-9
Short term relationships between solar flares, geomagnetic storms, and tropospheric vorticity patterns

R. H. OLSON
W. O. ROBERTS
C. S. ZEREFOS
Research11 Sept 1975
Nature

Volume: 257, P: 113-115
A wind driven shell model for the absorption line systems in QSOs

J. E. DYSON
S. A. E. G. FALLE
J. J. PERRY
Research01 Jan 1979
Nature

Volume: 277, P: 118-120
Projected changes in wave climate from a multi-model ensemble

Changing wind-wave climate has the potential to exacerbate, or negate, the impacts of sea-level rise in coastal zones. Results from the first community-derived multi-model ensemble of wind-wave climate projections show agreement over extended regions of the global ocean. Large uncertainty in available wave-climate projections is found to be due to downscaling methods.

Mark A. Hemer
Yalin Fan
Xiaolan L. Wang
Research13 Jan 2013
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 3, P: 471-476
Future equivalent of 2010 Russian heatwave intensified by weakening soil moisture constraints

The 2010 Russia heatwave had devastating impacts, including loss of life, wildfire and drought. Model simulations reveal similar heatwaves may be amplified by up to 8 °C in the future as soil moisture becomes less able to suppress maximum temperatures.

L. M. Rasmijn
G. van der Schrier
W. Hazeleger
Research19 Mar 2018
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 8, P: 381-385
Designing diversified renewable energy systems to balance multisector performance

Diversified renewable energy sources can enable the sustainable operation of multisector resource systems. An artificial intelligence-assisted multi-objective design framework, applied in Ghana, explores optimized management and investment strategies balancing hydropower, bioenergy, solar and wind energies, and their impacts.

Jose M. Gonzalez
James E. Tomlinson
Julien J. Harou
ResearchOpen Access26 Jan 2023
Nature Sustainability

Volume: 6, P: 415-427
Researches at High Temperatures and Pressures

CHARLES A. PARSONS
News19 Feb 1920
Nature

Volume: 104, P: 677-681
Author Correction: Africa needs context-relevant evidence to shape its clean energy future

Yacob Mulugetta
Youba Sokona
Abdulmutalib Yussuff
Amendments and Corrections17 May 2024
Nature Energy

Volume: 9, P: 907
Global coastal attenuation of wind-waves observed with radar altimetry

Reprocessed data from satellite altimetry show that the mean significant wave height decreases globally by 22% on average from 30 km to 3 km from the coast. By combining these data with wave period from reanalysis, we estimate a mean reduction of 38% concerning the mean wave energy flux.

Marcello Passaro
Mark A. Hemer
Florian Seitz
ResearchOpen Access21 Jun 2021
Nature Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-13
Africa needs context-relevant evidence to shape its clean energy future

Discussions abound regarding the future of African energy systems, yet they typically overlook the different starting points and development objectives of each country. This Perspective highlights these differences and calls for more context-specific attention to define low-carbon energy pathways.

Yacob Mulugetta
Youba Sokona
Abdulmutalib Yussuff
Reviews24 Oct 2022
Nature Energy

Volume: 7, P: 1015-1022
Fifteen years of ocean observations with the global Argo array

Stephen C. Riser
Howard J. Freeland
Steven R. Jayne
Reviews27 Jan 2016
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 6, P: 145-153
Dielectric Mie voids: confining light in air

We demonstrate that voids in high-index dielectrics support localized resonant modes which are confined in air and thus do not suffer from the loss and dispersion of the host medium

Mario Hentschel
Kirill Koshelev
Harald Giessen
ResearchOpen Access01 Jan 2023
Light: Science & Applications

Volume: 12, P: 1-12
Sustainable pathways towards universal renewable electricity access in Africa

Regions with low electricity generation and minor reliance on fossil fuels have the capacity to avoid fossil fuel dependence and directly transition to renewable energy systems. This Perspective explores the capacity of African countries for this transition while meeting growing electricity demands.

Rebecca Peters
Jürgen Berlekamp
Christiane Zarfl
Reviews16 Jan 2024
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Volume: 5, P: 137-151
Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C

The objective of the Paris climate agreement is to limit global-average temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to further pursue limiting it to 1.5 degrees Celsius; here, the adequacy of the national plans submitted in preparation for this agreement is assessed, and it is concluded that substantial enhancement or over-delivery on these plans is required to have a reasonable chance of achieving the Paris climate objective.

Joeri Rogelj
Michel den Elzen
Malte Meinshausen
Reviews29 Jun 2016
Nature

Volume: 534, P: 631-639
An all-Africa dataset of energy model “supply regions” for solar photovoltaic and wind power

Sebastian Sterl
Bilal Hussain
Daniel Russo
ResearchOpen Access31 Oct 2022
Scientific Data

Volume: 9, P: 1-12

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