Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future

BR Scanlon, S Fakhreddine, A Rateb… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Water is a critical resource, but ensuring its availability faces challenges from climate
extremes and human intervention. In this Review, we evaluate the current and historical …

Constructed wetlands for pollution control

H Wu, R Wang, P Yan, S Wu, Z Chen, Y Zhao… - Nature reviews earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Artificial wetlands are used in over 50 countries to sustainably treat wastewater. These
constructed wetlands (CWs) make use of natural biogeochemical and physical processes to …

The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss

P Jaureguiberry, N Titeux, M Wiemers, DE Bowler… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Effective policies to halt biodiversity loss require knowing which anthropogenic drivers are
the most important direct causes. Whereas previous knowledge has been limited in scope …

Alleviating the Work Function of Vein‐Like CoXP by Cr Do** for Enhanced Seawater Electrolysis

Y Song, M Sun, S Zhang, X Zhang, P Yi… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
For mass production of hydrogen fuel by electrochemical water splitting, seawater is
preferred because of its abundant reserves on Earth. However, the current seawater …

Bioinspired asymmetric amphiphilic surface for triboelectric enhanced efficient water harvesting

S Zhang, M Chi, J Mo, T Liu, Y Liu, Q Fu, J Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The effective acquisition of clean water from atmospheric water offers a potential sustainable
solution for increasing global water and energy shortages. In this study, an asymmetric …

Combatting global grassland degradation

RD Bardgett, JM Bullock, S Lavorel… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Grasslands are under severe threat from ongoing degradation, undermining their capacity to
support biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Yet, grasslands are largely …

Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions

C He, Z Liu, J Wu, X Pan, Z Fang, J Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Urbanization and climate change are together exacerbating water scarcity—where water
demand exceeds availability—for the world's cities. We quantify global urban water scarcity …

Twenty years of China's water pollution control: Experiences and challenges

W Tang, Y Pei, H Zheng, Y Zhao, L Shu, H Zhang - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Water pollution is a major environmental problem worldwide, especially in develo**
countries. China's environmental protection strategies have been pushed to the highest …

Human impacts on global freshwater fish biodiversity

G Su, M Logez, J Xu, S Tao, S Villéger, S Brosse - Science, 2021 - science.org
Freshwater fish represent one-fourth of the world's vertebrates and provide irreplaceable
goods and services but are increasingly affected by human activities. A new index …

Stable and highly efficient hydrogen evolution from seawater enabled by an unsaturated nickel surface nitride

H **, X Wang, C Tang, A Vasileff, L Li… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electrocatalytic production of hydrogen from seawater provides a route to low‐cost and
clean energy conversion. However, the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) using seawater …