Harnessing the microbiome to prevent global biodiversity loss

RS Peixoto, CR Voolstra, M Sweet, CM Duarte… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Global biodiversity loss and mass extinction of species are two of the most critical
environmental issues the world is currently facing, resulting in the disruption of various …

Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene

DMJS Bowman, CA Kolden, JT Abatzoglou… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause
substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental …

Spatial and temporal expansion of global wildland fire activity in response to climate change

M Senande-Rivera, D Insua-Costa… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Global warming is expected to alter wildfire potential and fire season severity, but the
magnitude and location of change is still unclear. Here, we show that climate largely …

[HTML][HTML] Tamm Review: Influence of forest management activities on soil organic carbon stocks: A knowledge synthesis

M Mayer, CE Prescott, WEA Abaker, L Augusto… - Forest Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Almost half of the total organic carbon (C) in terrestrial ecosystems is stored in forest soils.
By altering rates of input or release of C from soils, forest management activities can …

A review of environmental droughts: Increased risk under global warming?

SM Vicente-Serrano, SM Quiring, M Peña-Gallardo… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
This article reviews current drought effects on environmental systems. It stresses the need
for considering environmental drought as a relevant type to be included in drought …

The global impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on urban air pollution: A critical review and recommendations

GI Gkatzelis, JB Gilman, SS Brown, H Eskes… - Elem Sci …, 2021 - online.ucpress.edu
The coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic led to government interventions to limit the
spread of the disease which are unprecedented in recent history; for example, stay at home …

Nature-based approaches to managing climate change impacts in cities

SE Hobbie, NB Grimm - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Managing and adapting to climate change in urban areas will become increasingly
important as urban populations grow, especially because unique features of cities amplify …

Global trends in wildfire and its impacts: perceptions versus realities in a changing world

SH Doerr, C Santín - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Wildfire has been an important process affecting the Earth's surface and atmosphere for over
350 million years and human societies have coexisted with fire since their emergence. Yet …

The interplay of climate change and air pollution on health

H Orru, KL Ebi, B Forsberg - Current environmental health reports, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Air pollution significantly affects health, causing up to 7 million
premature deaths annually with an even larger number of hospitalizations and days of sick …

Five decades of observed daily precipitation reveal longer and more variable drought events across much of the western United States

F Zhang, JA Biederman… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Multiple lines of evidence suggest climate change will result in increased precipitation
variability and consequently more frequent extreme events. These hydroclimatic changes …