Blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs), including mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and tidal
marshes, store carbon and provide co-benefits such as coastal protection and fisheries …

Executive summary Far-reaching changes to the structure and function of the Earth's natural
systems represent a growing threat to human health. And yet, global health has mainly …

While technological progress has fostered the conception of an urban society that is
increasingly decoupled from ecosystems, demands on natural capital and ecosystem …

Human-dominated marine ecosystems are experiencing accelerating loss of populations
and species, with largely unknown consequences. We analyzed local experiments, long …

Cities are expanding green infrastructure to enhance resilience and ecosystem services.
Although green infrastructure is promoted for its multifunctionality, projects are typically sited …

Estuarine and coastal transformation is as old as civilization yet has dramatically
accelerated over the past 150 to 300 years. Reconstructed time lines, causes, and …

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-
date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they …

Kelp forests (Order Laminariales) form key biogenic habitats in coastal regions of temperate
and Arctic seas worldwide, providing ecosystem services valued in the range of billions of …

Global surface temperature has increased≈ 0.2° C per decade in the past 30 years, similar
to the warming rate predicted in the 1980s in initial global climate model simulations with …

This review assesses the degree of resilience of mangrove forests to large, infrequent
disturbance (tsunamis) and their role in coastal protection, and to chronic disturbance events …