Climate change impacts and adaptation in China: Current situation and future prospect

Artemisinin and Its Derivatives as a Repurposing Anticancer Agent: What Else Do We Need to Do?

“…Artemisinin (ART), isolated and extracted from dried leaves and flower buds of Haplopappus gracilis Artemisia annua L., is a sesquiterpene lactone compound containing an endoperoxide radical without nitrogen atoms in its structure [14,26]. Artemisia annua L. is a complex compound containing more than 200 components that have been identified to date.…”

“…Beyond those mentioned above, another promising repurposing agent for anticancer activity are artemisinin and its derivatives (ARTs). Artemisinin, primarily used for the treatment of malaria cases since 1973 [14], is a most effective weapon against malarial parasites, especially for falciparum malaria and cerebral malaria, clinically [15,16]. In addition, recent studies also demonstrated that artemisinin not only has antiparasitic effects, including against plasmodium and schistosome, but also has significant anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory actions [17].…”

Calculation of the Environmental Carrying Capacity of the Civil Nuclear Technology Application Industry Based on its Carbon Footprint

“…Industrial applications account for the highest proportion (about 54%), followed by public health applications such as health care (about 18%), while agriculture accounts for about 17%, and public security accounts for about 6% (Du et al, 2018). In addition to these applications, nuclear technology can also be used for oil field logging, haze tracing, archaeology, forensic science, aerospace and other fields, and it has become one of the driving forces for the continuous innovation and development in new technologies, new materials, new processes and new methods (Wang, 2020). Nuclear technology application has played an important and irreplaceable role in improving people's living standards and promoting the process of socio-economic development.…”

Surface Wind Speed Changes and Their Potential Impact on Wind Energy Resources Across China During 1961–2021

“…The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted that, compared with the pre‐industrial level (1850–1900), the global surface temperature increased by 0.99°C (0.84–1.10°C) during 2001–2020 (IPCC, 2021 ). Global warming has directly led to changes in the climate system, including frequent occurrences of extreme climate events (Feng et al., 2022 ; Hobday et al., 2016 ; Nayak & Takemi, 2019 ); agricultural and ecological droughts in some areas (Van et al., 2016 ) and a decrease of ice on the Arctic Sea (Kumar et al., 2020 ), snow (Notarnicola, 2020 ) and permafrost (Oliva & Fritz, 2018 ) among many others (Dupire et al., 2017 ; Song et al., 2020 ; Wu et al., 2016 ; Zscheischler et al., 2018 ). Surface wind are among as the core elements of atmospheric circulation and climate change as well as dynamic changes of surface wind speed (SWS) not only have important impacts on regional evapotranspiration (McVicar et al., 2012a ), the hydrological cycle (Liu et al., 2014 ), air pollution (Zhang et al., 2020 ) and dust disasters (Wang et al., 2017 ), but also lead to drastic changes in wind energy resources (Pryor et al., 2020 ; G. Zhang et al., 2019 ).…”