Biogeochemical extremes and compound events in the ocean

N Gruber, PW Boyd, TL Frölicher, M Vogt - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
The ocean is warming, losing oxygen and being acidified, primarily as a result of
anthropogenic carbon emissions. With ocean warming, acidification and deoxygenation …

Human health and ocean pollution

PJ Landrigan, JJ Stegeman, LE Fleming… - Annals of global …, 2020‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Pollution–unwanted waste released to air, water, and land by human activity–is
the largest environmental cause of disease in the world today. It is responsible for an …

Enabling conditions for an equitable and sustainable blue economy

AM Cisneros-Montemayor, M Moreno-Báez… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
The future of the global ocean economy is currently envisioned as advancing towards a
'blue economy'—socially equitable, environmentally sustainable and economically viable …

Current and projected global extent of marine built structures

AB Bugnot, M Mayer-Pinto, L Airoldi, EC Heery… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The sprawl of marine construction is one of the most extreme human modifications to global
seascapes. Nevertheless, its global extent remains largely unquantified compared to that on …

A climate risk index for marine life

DG Boyce, DP Tittensor, C Garilao, S Henson… - Nature Climate …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Climate change is impacting virtually all marine life. Adaptation strategies will require a
robust understanding of the risks to species and ecosystems and how those propagate to …

Forty years of reform and opening up: China's progress toward a sustainable path

Y Lu, Y Zhang, X Cao, C Wang, Y Wang, M Zhang… - Science …, 2019‏ - science.org
After 40 years of reform and “opening up,” China has made remarkable economic progress.
Such economic prosperity, however, has been coupled with environmental degradation. We …

National baselines for the Sustainable Development Goals assessed in the SDG Index and Dashboards

G Schmidt-Traub, C Kroll, K Teksoz… - Nature …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—agreed in 2015 by all 193 member
states of the United Nations and complemented by commitments made in the Paris …

Map** the global potential for marine aquaculture

RR Gentry, HE Froehlich, D Grimm, P Kareiva… - Nature ecology & …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Marine aquaculture presents an opportunity for increasing seafood production in the face of
growing demand for marine protein and limited scope for expanding wild fishery harvests …

Microplastic pollution identified in deep-sea water and ingested by benthic invertebrates in the Rockall Trough, North Atlantic Ocean

W Courtene-Jones, B Quinn, SF Gary, AOM Mogg… - Environmental …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Microplastics are widespread in the natural environment and present numerous ecological
threats. While the ultimate fate of marine microplastics are not well known, it is hypothesized …

Soil health assessment: A critical review of current methodologies and a proposed new approach

O Rinot, GJ Levy, Y Steinberger, T Svoray… - Science of the Total …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The wellbeing of soils is crucial for securing food production worldwide. The soil health (SH)
concept has been introduced due to an evolving understanding that soil is not just a growing …