[HTML][HTML] Current trends of unsustainable plastic production and micro (nano) plastic pollution

TR Walker, L Fequet - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Unsustainable plastic production, use and mismanagement has resulted in increased global
plastic pollution and subsequent degradation into micro (nano) plastics in the environment …

Soil microbiomes and one health

S Banerjee, MGA Van Der Heijden - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
The concept of one health highlights that human health is not isolated but connected to the
health of animals, plants and environments. In this Review, we demonstrate that soils are a …

Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries

K Richardson, W Steffen, W Lucht, J Bendtsen… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
This planetary boundaries framework update finds that six of the nine boundaries are
transgressed, suggesting that Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for …

Safe and just Earth system boundaries

J Rockström, J Gupta, D Qin, SJ Lade, JF Abrams… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably
linked,–, yet their interdependencies are generally under-recognized; consequently, they …

Outside the safe operating space of a new planetary boundary for per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)

IT Cousins, JH Johansson, ME Salter… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
It is hypothesized that environmental contamination by per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances
(PFAS) defines a separate planetary boundary and that this boundary has been exceeded …

A planetary boundary for green water

L Wang-Erlandsson, A Tobian, RJ Van der Ent… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Green water—terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture—is fundamental to
Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental …

Life-cycle assessment to guide solutions for the triple planetary crisis

S Hellweg, E Benetto, MAJ Huijbregts… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution—the triple planetary crisis—increasingly
threaten the Earth system, necessitating tools such as life-cycle assessment (LCA) that can …

[HTML][HTML] The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on plastics and human health

PJ Landrigan, H Raps, M Cropper, C Bald… - Annals of Global …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of
the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine …

PFAS: forever chemicals—persistent, bioaccumulative and mobile. Reviewing the status and the need for their phase out and remediation of contaminated sites

H Brunn, G Arnold, W Körner, G Rippen… - Environmental Sciences …, 2023 - Springer
Background Per-and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) have received increasing
scientific and political attention in recent years. Several thousand commercially produced …

The increasing prevalence of autoimmunity and autoimmune diseases: an urgent call to action for improved understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention

FW Miller - Current opinion in immunology, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Autoimmunity is defined by a self-reactive adaptive immune system, causing
clinical pathology in autoimmune diseases.•Evidence suggests that autoimmunity and …