Microalgae, soil and plants: A critical review of microalgae as renewable resources for agriculture

AL Alvarez, SL Weyers, HM Goemann, BM Peyton… - Algal Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The tension between a growing global demand for food, rising environmental impacts of
agricultural intensification, and the uncertainty of future changes in our global climate …

[HTML][HTML] Microplastics with adsorbed contaminants: Mechanisms and Treatment

SH Joo, Y Liang, M Kim, J Byun, H Choi - Environmental Challenges, 2021 - Elsevier
Plastic pollution has been a significant and widespread global issue, and the recent COVID-
19 pandemic has been attributed to its worsening effect as plastics have been contaminated …

The environmental footprint of global food production

BS Halpern, M Frazier, J Verstaen, PE Rayner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Feeding humanity puts enormous environmental pressure on our planet. These pressures
are unequally distributed, yet we have piecemeal knowledge of how they accumulate across …

A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

H Tian, R Xu, JG Canadell, RL Thompson… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Nitrous oxide (N 2 O), like carbon dioxide, is a long-lived greenhouse gas that
accumulates in the atmosphere. Over the past 150 years, increasing atmospheric N 2 O …

Global phosphorus shortage will be aggravated by soil erosion

C Alewell, B Ringeval, C Ballabio, DA Robinson… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Soil phosphorus (P) loss from agricultural systems will limit food and feed production in the
future. Here, we combine spatially distributed global soil erosion estimates (only considering …

Quantification of global and national nitrogen budgets for crop production

X Zhang, T Zou, L Lassaletta, ND Mueller, FN Tubiello… - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
Input–output estimates of nitrogen on cropland are essential for improving nitrogen
management and better understanding the global nitrogen cycle. Here, we compare 13 …

Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries

BM Campbell, DJ Beare, EM Bennett… - Ecology and society, 2017 - JSTOR
We explore the role of agriculture in destabilizing the Earth system at the planetary scale,
through examining nine planetary boundaries, or “safe limits”: land-system change …

ReCiPe2016: a harmonised life cycle impact assessment method at midpoint and endpoint level

MAJ Huijbregts, ZJN Steinmann, PMF Elshout… - … International Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Purpose Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) translates emissions and resource extractions
into a limited number of environmental impact scores by means of so-called characterisation …

The application of life cycle assessment (LCA) to wastewater treatment: A best practice guide and critical review

L Corominas, DM Byrne, JS Guest, A Hospido, P Roux… - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been widely applied in the wastewater industry, but
inconsistencies in assumptions and methods have made it difficult for researchers and …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring river nitrogen and phosphorus loading and export to global coastal waters in the Shared Socio-economic pathways

AHW Beusen, JC Doelman, LPH Van Beek… - Global Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract This global spatially explicit (0.5 by 0.5 degree) analysis presents the nitrogen (N)
and phosphorus (P) inputs, processing and biogeochemical retention and delivery to …