Global river water quality under climate change and hydroclimatic extremes

MTH Van Vliet, J Thorslund, M Strokal… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change and extreme weather events (such as droughts, heatwaves, rainstorms and
floods) pose serious challenges for water management, in terms of both water resources …

Deciphering carbon emissions in urban sewer networks: Bridging urban sewer networks with city-wide environmental dynamics

J Chen, HC Wang, WX Yin, YQ Wang, J Lv, AJ Wang - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
As urbanization accelerates, understanding and managing carbon emissions from urban
sewer networks have become crucial for sustainable urban water cycles. This review …

A triple increase in global river basins with water scarcity due to future pollution

M Wang, BL Bodirsky, R Rijneveld, F Beier… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Water security is at stake today. While climate changes influence water availability,
urbanization and agricultural activities have led to increasing water demand as well as …

River export of macro-and microplastics to seas by sources worldwide

M Strokal, P Vriend, MP Bak, C Kroeze… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Seas are polluted with macro-(> 5 mm) and microplastics (< 5 mm). However, few studies
account for both types when modeling water quality, thus limiting our understanding of the …

[HTML][HTML] Conflict or Coordination? measuring the relationships between urbanization and vegetation cover in China

T Zhou, H Liu, P Gou, N Xu - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the relationship between urbanization and vegetation is essential for
sustainable urban development. Over the last few decades, China has experienced rapid …

Plastic pollution in agriculture as a threat to food security, the ecosystem, and the environment: an overview

IA Lakhiar, H Yan, J Zhang, G Wang, S Deng, R Bao… - Agronomy, 2024 - mdpi.com
Plastic products in plant production and protection help farmers increase crop production,
enhance food quality, and reduce global water use and their environmental footprint …

Recent advancement in water quality indicators for eutrophication in global freshwater lakes

K Suresh, T Tang, MTH Van Vliet… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Eutrophication is a major global concern in lakes, caused by excessive nutrient loadings
(nitrogen and phosphorus) from human activities and likely exacerbated by climate change …

Globally elevated greenhouse gas emissions from polluted urban rivers

W Xu, G Wang, S Liu, J Wang, WH McDowell… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cities are at the heart of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with rivers
embedded in urban landscapes as a potentially large yet uncharacterized GHG source …

Riverine antibiotics from animal production and wastewater

S Li, N Hofstra, MGM van de Schans… - … & Technology Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Riverine antibiotics have gained significant attention due to their ecological and human
health impacts. Here, we assess the distribution of antibiotic concentrations in rivers globally …

Water quality management could halve future water scarcity cost-effectively in the Pearl River Basin

S Baccour, G Goelema, T Kahil, J Albiac… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Reducing water scarcity requires both mitigation of the increasing water pollution and
adaptation to the changing availability and demand of water resources under global change …