There is currently a shift from petrochemical to bio-based plastics (bioplastics). The
application of comprehensive and appropriately designed LCA studies are imperative to …

During the past decades, multiple remote sensing data sources, including nighttime light
images, high spatial resolution multispectral satellite images, unmanned drone images, and …

Much of the Earth's biosphere has been appropriated for the production of harvestable
biomass in the form of food, fuel and fibre. Here we show that the simplification and …

There has been increasing attention to and investment in local environmental stewardship in
conservation and environmental management policies and programs globally. Yet …

Abstract As the Earth's Third Pole and the Asian water tower, the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau
(QTP) plays a key role in global climate regulation and biodiversity maintenance. Living in …

In the future, the land system will be facing new intersecting challenges. While food demand,
especially for resource-intensive livestock based commodities, is expected to increase, the …

Global biodiversity loss is a critical environmental crisis, yet the lack of spatial data on
biodiversity threats has hindered conservation strategies. Theory predicts that abrupt …

We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth,
biologists claim—the first one caused by humans. Activists, filmmakers, writers, and artists …

The exhibition of increasingly intensive and complex niche construction behaviors through
time is a key feature of human evolution, culminating in the advanced capacity for ecosystem …

Given that few ecosystems on the Earth have been unaffected by humans, restoring them
holds great promise for stemming the biodiversity crisis and ensuring ecosystem services …