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• Letter | 21 November 2016

  Substantial global carbon uptake by cement carbonation

  Cement production is a source of CO₂. Analysis of carbonation, a process that sequesters CO₂ during the lifetime of cement, suggests that between 1930 and 2013, it has offset 43% of CO₂ emissions from cement production globally.

  • Fengming Xi
  • , Steven J. Davis
  •  & Zhu Liu

• Letter | 07 November 2016

  Tropospheric ozone change from 1980 to 2010 dominated by equatorward redistribution of emissions

  Ozone is an air pollutant and a greenhouse gas. Simulations with a global chemistry transport model reveal that the spatial distribution of ozone precursor emissions dominates the global ozone burden, and that emissions in the tropics matter most.

  • Yuqiang Zhang
  • , Owen R. Cooper
  •  & J. Jason West

• Editorial | 30 September 2016

  The metals disconnect

  Economic development in a sustainable fashion is metals-intensive. If we cannot afford to ban mining, regulation must be more effective.