The majority of the total carbon emissions in China are energy induced. A clear understanding of energy-induced carbon emissions is therefore necessary for local communities to develop a better carbon emissions management system. We develop an integrated inventory method for energy-induced...

The National People Congress in 2013 stated the need to provide impulse and guidance for a transformation of the Chinese resource-based cities into sustainable cities. This paper considers the transformation path realized in a small Chinese resource-based city in China. The city of Jiyuan has...

Achieving sustainability and coping with climate change are the greatest challenges to human survival and harmonious human-nature relationship. However, we lack research on quantifying the capacity of sustainability to resist climate change over space and time. Here, we developed a...

Arsenic contamination has adverse health effects on human, and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are suitable adsorbents for its removal. The low scale synthesis and high cost hindered the application of MOFs in arsenic removal. The challenge resulted from the strict synthesis conditions, like...

Groundwater contamination near landfills is commonly caused by leachate leakage, permeable reactive barriers (PRBs) are widely used for groundwater remediation, however, the deactivation and blockage of the reactive medium in PRBs limit their long-term effectiveness. In the current study, a new...