Challenges and opportunities in the use of ponds and pondscapes as nature-based solutions

M Cuenca-Cambronero, M Blicharska, JA Perrin… - Hydrobiologia, 2023 - Springer
Ponds and “pondscapes”(networks of ponds) are crucial habitats for biodiversity and for
delivering multiple benefits to humans, so-called “Nature's Contribution to People”, such as …

[HTML][HTML] BRICS and the Race to Net-Zero Emissions by 2050: Is COVID-19 a Barrier or an Opportunity?

L Chapungu, G Nhamo, D Chikodzi… - Journal of Open Innovation …, 2022 - Elsevier
The emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) have
significant influence on the global economic and environmental trajectories. They have …

A methanotrophic bacterium to enable methane removal for climate mitigation

L He, JD Groom, EH Wilson, J Fernandez… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
The rapid increase of the potent greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere creates great
urgency to develop and deploy technologies for methane mitigation. One approach to …

Societal determinants of flood-induced displacement

J Vestby, S Schutte, AF Tollefsen, H Buhaug - Proceedings of the National …, 2024 - pnas.org
What explains human consequences of weather-related disaster? Here, we explore how
core socioeconomic, political, and security conditions shape flood-induced displacement …

Microclimate modulation: An overlooked mechanism influencing the impact of plant diversity on ecosystem functioning

R Beugnon, N Le Guyader, A Milcu… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in climate and biodiversity are widely recognized as primary global
change drivers of ecosystem structure and functioning, also affecting ecosystem services …

Increasing risks of future compound climate extremes with warming over global land masses

H Wu, X Su, VP Singh - Earth's Future, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Compound climate extremes (here referred to compound dry–hot events and compound
pluvial–hot events) result in devastating disasters which threaten water‐food‐energy …

Improving photosynthesis through multidisciplinary efforts: The next frontier of photosynthesis research

XG Zhu, M Hasanuzzaman, A Jajoo, T Lawson… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The light-dependent release of oxygen from plants was first discovered in the 1770s by
Joseph Priestley and Jan Ingenhousz. More recently, the enzyme-catalyzed pathway of …

Challenges for the balanced attribution of livestock's environmental impacts: the art of conveying simple messages around complex realities

P Manzano, J Rowntree, L Thompson… - Animal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Implications Meat production is often listed among the largest contributors to climate change,
and is usually associated with biodiversity damage, feed-food competition, and water …

Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach

J Böhme, EM Spreitzer, C Wamsler - Sustainability Science, 2024 - Springer
Scholars and practitioners are urgently highlighting the need to apply a relational approach
to effectively address societal crises. At the same time, little is known about the associated …

A meta-analytical review of turbidity effects on fish mobility

JN Rodrigues, JCG Ortega, DK Petsch… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2023 - Springer
Human activities have resulted in higher levels of turbidity in aquatic systems due to
increased sediment runoff from agriculture, urbanization, and mining activities into nearby …