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 …

The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems

JEM Watson, T Evans, O Venter, B Williams… - Nature ecology & …, 2018‏ - nature.com
As the terrestrial human footprint continues to expand, the amount of native forest that is free
from significant damaging human activities is in precipitous decline. There is emerging …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme weather impacts of climate change: an attribution perspective

B Clarke, F Otto, R Stuart-Smith… - Environmental Research …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme event attribution aims to elucidate the link between global climate change, extreme
weather events, and the harms experienced on the ground by people, property, and nature …

Global mortality from outdoor fine particle pollution generated by fossil fuel combustion: Results from GEOS-Chem

K Vohra, A Vodonos, J Schwartz, EA Marais… - Environmental …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The burning of fossil fuels–especially coal, petrol, and diesel–is a major source of airborne
fine particulate matter (PM 2.5), and a key contributor to the global burden of mortality and …

Forest fire threatens global carbon sinks and population centres under rising atmospheric water demand

H Clarke, RH Nolan, VR De Dios, R Bradstock… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Levels of fire activity and severity that are unprecedented in the instrumental record have
recently been observed in forested regions around the world. Using a large sample of daily …

Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change

GJ Van Oldenborgh, F Krikken, S Lewis… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2020‏ - nhess.copernicus.org
Disastrous bushfires during the last months of 2019 and January 2020 affected Australia,
raising the question to what extent the risk of these fires was exacerbated by anthropogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Historical background and current developments for map** burned area from satellite Earth observation

E Chuvieco, F Mouillot, GR Van der Werf… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Fire has a diverse range of impacts on Earth's physical and social systems. Accurate and up
to date information on areas affected by fire is critical to better understand drivers of fire …

[HTML][HTML] The Global Fire Atlas of individual fire size, duration, speed and direction

N Andela, DC Morton, L Giglio… - Earth System …, 2019‏ - essd.copernicus.org
Natural and human-ignited fires affect all major biomes, altering ecosystem structure,
biogeochemical cycles and atmospheric composition. Satellite observations provide global …

Ecosystem management as a wicked problem

R DeFries, H Nagendra - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
Ecosystems are self-regulating systems that provide societies with food, water, timber, and
other resources. As demands for resources increase, management decisions are replacing …