Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

C Folke, S Polasky, J Rockström, V Galaz, F Westley… - Ambio, 2021 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized
world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding …

[HTML][HTML] Circular Economy strategies for concrete: implementation and integration

ATM Marsh, APM Velenturf, SA Bernal - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Concrete is the world's most widely-used anthropogenic material, and Circular Economy
strategies will be key to addressing the myriad challenges that face its use today and into the …

From extractivism to global extractivism: The evolution of an organizing concept

CW Chagnon, F Durante, BK Gills… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Research on extractivism has rapidly proliferated, expanding into new empirical and
conceptual spaces. We examine the origins, evolution, and conceptual expansion of the …

The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth

P Schultheiss, SS Nooten, R Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Knowledge on the distribution and abundance of organisms is fundamental to
understanding their roles within ecosystems and their ecological importance for other taxa …

[HTML][HTML] Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future

CJA Bradshaw, PR Ehrlich, A Beattie… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little
attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that future environmental …

A global plastic treaty must cap production

M Bergmann, BC Almroth, SM Brander, T Dey… - Science, 2022 - science.org
We would like to retract the Report “Asymmetric remote C–H borylation of aliphatic amides
and esters with a modular iridium catalyst”(1) after discovering that the reported …

The global biomass of wild mammals

L Greenspoon, E Krieger, R Sender… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Wild mammals are icons of conservation efforts, yet there is no rigorous estimate available
for their overall global biomass. Biomass as a metric allows us to compare species with very …

Plastics and the Environment

IE Napper, RC Thompson - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Plastics are persistent and pervasive throughout the environment and have now been
reported from the deepest parts of the ocean to the tops of the highest and most remote …

The global wildland–urban interface

F Schug, A Bar-Massada, AR Carlson, H Cox… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The wildland–urban interface (WUI) is where buildings and wildland vegetation meet or
intermingle,. It is where human–environmental conflicts and risks can be concentrated …

Efficient use of cement and concrete to reduce reliance on supply-side technologies for net-zero emissions

T Watari, Z Cao, S Hata, K Nansai - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Decarbonization strategies for the cement and concrete sector have relied heavily on supply-
side technologies, including carbon capture and storage (CCS), masking opportunities for …