Irrigation accounts for~ 70% of global freshwater withdrawals and~ 90% of consumptive
water use, driving myriad Earth system impacts. In this Review, we summarize how irrigation …

Agriculture's global environmental impacts are widely expected to continue expanding,
driven by population and economic growth and dietary changes. This Review highlights …

Irrigation is a land management practice with major environmental impacts. However, global
energy consumption and carbon emissions resulting from irrigation remain unknown. We …

Current agricultural practices, developed during the green revolution, are becoming
unsustainable, especially in the face of climate change and growing populations …

Water scarcity raises major concerns on the sustainable future of humanity and the
conservation of important ecosystem functions. To meet the increasing food demand without …

Enhanced silicate rock weathering (ERW), deployable with croplands, has potential use for
atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) removal (CDR), which is now necessary to mitigate …

Various nano-enabled strategies are proposed to improve crop production and meet the
growing global demands for food, feed and fuel while practising sustainable agriculture …

Groundwater is the world's largest freshwater resource and is critically important for
irrigation, and hence for global food security,–. Already, unsustainable groundwater …

Snowpack stores cold-season precipitation to meet warm-season water demand. Climate
change threatens to disturb this balance by altering the fraction of precipitation falling as …

We explore the role of agriculture in destabilizing the Earth system at the planetary scale,
through examining nine planetary boundaries, or “safe limits”: land-system change …