Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

W Willett, J Rockström, B Loken, M Springmann… - The lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Food systems have the potential to nurture human health and support
environmental sustainability; however, they are currently threatening both. Providing a …

Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

HO Pörtner, RJ Scholes, A Arneth, DKA Barnes… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Earth's biodiversity and human societies face pollution, overconsumption of natural
resources, urbanization, demographic shifts, social and economic inequalities, and habitat …

Satellite imaging reveals increased proportion of population exposed to floods

B Tellman, JA Sullivan, C Kuhn, AJ Kettner, CS Doyle… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Flooding affects more people than any other environmental hazard and hinders sustainable
development,. Investing in flood adaptation strategies may reduce the loss of life and …

Global land use/land cover with Sentinel 2 and deep learning

K Karra, C Kontgis, Z Statman-Weil… - … and remote sensing …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Land use/land cover (LULC) maps are foundational geospatial data products needed by
analysts and decision makers across governments, civil society, industry, and finance to …

Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

BBN Strassburg, A Iribarrem, HL Beyer, CL Cordeiro… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Extensive ecosystem restoration is increasingly seen as being central to conserving
biodiversity and stabilizing the climate of the Earth. Although ambitious national and global …

[HTML][HTML] SoilGrids 2.0: producing soil information for the globe with quantified spatial uncertainty

L Poggio, LM De Sousa, NH Batjes, GBM Heuvelink… - Soil, 2021 - soil.copernicus.org
SoilGrids produces maps of soil properties for the entire globe at medium spatial resolution
(250 m cell size) using state-of-the-art machine learning methods to generate the necessary …

People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

EC Ellis, N Gauthier… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Archaeological and paleoecological evidence shows that by 10,000 BCE, all human
societies employed varying degrees of ecologically transformative land use practices …

Dynamic World, Near real-time global 10 m land use land cover map**

CF Brown, SP Brumby, B Guzder-Williams, T Birch… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Unlike satellite images, which are typically acquired and processed in near-real-time, global
land cover products have historically been produced on an annual basis, often with …

Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

D Leclère, M Obersteiner, M Barrett, SHM Butchart… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Increased efforts are required to prevent further losses to terrestrial biodiversity and the
ecosystem services that it provides,. Ambitious targets have been proposed, such as …

Increasing frequency and intensity of the most extreme wildfires on Earth

CX Cunningham, GJ Williamson… - Nature ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Climate change is exacerbating wildfire conditions, but evidence is lacking for global trends
in extreme fire activity itself. Here we identify energetically extreme wildfire events by …