Earth's biodiversity and human societies face pollution, overconsumption of natural
resources, urbanization, demographic shifts, social and economic inequalities, and habitat …

Many previous studies have estimated the carrying capacity and feasible planetary
boundaries for humankind. However, less attention has been given to how we will …

We have developed a new global food emissions database (EDGAR-FOOD) estimating
greenhouse gas (GHG; CO 2, CH 4, N 2 O, fluorinated gases) emissions for the years 1990 …

Central and South America (CSA) is a highly diverse region, both culturally and biologically.
It has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet (Hoorn et al., 2010; Zador et al …

The two most urgent and interlinked environmental challenges humanity faces are climate
change and biodiversity loss. We are entering a pivotal decade for both the international …

Brazil contains the largest volume of freshwater of any nation in the world; however, this
essential natural resource is threatened by rapid increases in water consumption and water …

For half a century, the process of economic integration of the Amazon has been based on
intensive use of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources, which has brought …

Brazil is a major sugarcane producer and its production more than doubled over the last
decades to meet global bioenergy demands for reducing crude oil dependency and …

Forest-based climate mitigation may occur through conserving and enhancing the carbon
sink and through reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation. Yet the inclusion …

The main objective of our study was to provide consistent information on land cover changes
between the years 1990 and 2010 for the Cerrado and Caatinga Brazilian seasonal biomes …