The first articles in IOP's (Institute of Physics') new open-access journal, Environmental Research Letters (ERL) (http://erl.iop.org), have been published. Professor Daniel M. Kammen, the Editor-in-Chief of ERL said, "As a free to read journal, ERL’s prime purpose is to serve the entire environmental science community. I am delighted by the quality of these first contributions and eagerly anticipate the continued growth of this exciting new journal."

The first content includes:
· Shifts in plant dominance control carbon-cycle responses to experimental warming and widespread drought by J Harte, S Saleska and T Shih
· Images of the energy future by Arthur Mason
· Risks of the oil transition by A E Farrell and A R Brandt
· Can there be science-based precaution? by Charles Weiss
· The Bodélé depression — a single spot in the Sahara that provides most of the mineral dust to the Amazon forest by I Koren, Y J Kaufman, R Washington, M Todd, Y Rudich, V J Martins and D Rosenfeld

Future additions will appear on the journal's homepage at
http://erl.iop.org.

ERL’s coverage will reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of environmental science, recognizing wide-ranging contributions to the development of methods, tools and evaluation strategies relevant to the field.

The editorial direction and development of the journal are guided by a prestigious international board under the supervision of Professor Kammen (University of California, Berkeley). For a full list of Advisory and Editorial Board members, please visit www.iop.org/journals/erl/board.

We are pleased to be able to bring Environmental Research Letters to the
community in an open-access format. We hope that you will support this
important publication by adding it to your journals list or by setting up
links for users at your institution.

Any questions about ERL should be directed to erl@iop.org.

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