The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

PJ Landrigan, R Fuller, NJR Acosta, O Adeyi, R Arnold… - The lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature
death in the world today. Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 …

In the line of fire: the peatlands of Southeast Asia

SE Page, A Hooijer - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Peatlands are a significant component of the global carbon (C) cycle, yet despite their role
as a long-term C sink throughout the Holocene, they are increasingly vulnerable to …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

[HTML][HTML] Global trends of forest loss due to fire from 2001 to 2019

A Tyukavina, P Potapov, MC Hansen… - Frontiers in Remote …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Forest fires contribute to global greenhouse gas emissions and can negatively affect public
health, economic activity, and provision of ecosystem services (Aragão et al., 2018; Cascio …

Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

J Loisel, AV Gallego-Sala, MJ Amesbury… - Nature climate …, 2021 - nature.com
The carbon balance of peatlands is predicted to shift from a sink to a source this century.
However, peatland ecosystems are still omitted from the main Earth system models that are …

COVID-19's impact on the atmospheric environment in the Southeast Asia region

KD Kanniah, NAFK Zaman, DG Kaskaoutis… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Since its first appearance in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019, the new coronavirus (COVID-
19) has evolved a global pandemic within three months, with more than 4.3 million …

[HTML][HTML] Land cover distribution in the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2015 with changes since 1990

J Miettinen, C Shi, SC Liew - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Insular Southeast Asian peatlands have experienced rapid land cover changes
over the past decades inducing a variety of environmental effects ranging from regional …

Smoke-weather interaction affects extreme wildfires in diverse coastal regions

X Huang, K Ding, J Liu, Z Wang, R Tang, L Xue… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Extreme wildfires threaten human lives, air quality, and ecosystems. Meteorology plays a
vital role in wildfire behaviors, and the links between wildfires and climate have been widely …

Fire carbon emissions over maritime southeast Asia in 2015 largest since 1997

V Huijnen, MJ Wooster, JW Kaiser, DLA Gaveau… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract In September and October 2015 widespread forest and peatland fires burned over
large parts of maritime southeast Asia, most notably Indonesia, releasing large amounts of …

Public health impacts of the severe haze in Equatorial Asia in September–October 2015: demonstration of a new framework for informing fire management strategies …

SN Koplitz, LJ Mickley, ME Marlier… - Environmental …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract In September–October 2015, El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole conditions
set the stage for massive fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), leading to …