Current agricultural and food production practices are facing extreme stress, posed by
climate change and an ever-increasing human population. The pressure to feed nearly 8 …

Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and
energy needs of a growing and increasingly affluent human population. Water plays an …

Animal source foods are evolutionarily appropriate foods for humans. It is therefore
remarkable that they are now presented by some as unhealthy, unsustainable, and …

To identify environmentally sustainable foods that promote health, we combined nutritional
health-based and 18 environmental indicators to evaluate, classify and prioritize individual …

Due to the large amount of diesel fuel demands worldwide and the negative environmental
and health impacts of its direct combustion, biodiesel production and consumption have …

This paper pioneers the assessment of tourism's total global resource use, including its fossil
fuel consumption, associated CO2 emissions, fresh water, land, and food use. As tourism is …

Meeting the food needs of the growing and increasingly affluent human population with the
planet's limited resources is a major challenge of our time. Seen as the preferred approach …

Insects receive increasing attention as an alternative protein-rich food source for humans.
Producing edible insects on diets composed of organic by-products could increase …

Freshwater scarcity is a growing concern, placing considerable importance on the accuracy
of indicators used to characterize and map water scarcity worldwide. We improve upon past …

This study quantifies and maps the water footprint (WF) of humanity at a high spatial
resolution. It reports on consumptive use of rainwater (green WF) and ground and surface …