Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward

BK Singh, M Delgado-Baquerizo, E Egidi… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Plant disease outbreaks pose significant risks to global food security and environmental
sustainability worldwide, and result in the loss of primary productivity and biodiversity that …

The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises

N Watts, M Amann, N Arnell, S Ayeb-Karlsson… - The lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to
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The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change

AM Vicedo-Cabrera, N Scovronick, F Sera… - Nature climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Climate change affects human health; however, there have been no large-scale, systematic
efforts to quantify the heat-related human health impacts that have already occurred due to …

Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change

Y Pokhrel, F Felfelani, Y Satoh, J Boulange… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Terrestrial water storage (TWS) modulates the hydrological cycle and is a key determinant of
water availability and an indicator of drought. While historical TWS variations have been …

Climate change impact on flood and extreme precipitation increases with water availability

H Tabari - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The hydrological cycle is expected to intensify with global warming, which likely increases
the intensity of extreme precipitation events and the risk of flooding. The changes, however …

Global hotspots for soil nature conservation

CA Guerra, M Berdugo, DJ Eldridge, N Eisenhauer… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Soils are the foundation of all terrestrial ecosystems. However, unlike for plants and animals,
a global assessment of hotspots for soil nature conservation is still lacking. This hampers our …

The 2018–2020 multi‐year drought sets a new benchmark in Europe

O Rakovec, L Samaniego, V Hari, Y Markonis… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract During the period 2018–2020, Europe experienced a series of hot and dry weather
conditions with significant socioeconomic and environmental consequences. Yet, the …

Soil quality both increases crop production and improves resilience to climate change

L Qiao, X Wang, P Smith, J Fan, Y Lu, B Emmett… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Interactions between soil quality and climate change may influence the capacity of
croplands to produce sufficient food. Here, we address this issue by using a new dataset of …

The neglected role of abandoned cropland in supporting both food security and climate change mitigation

Q Zheng, T Ha, AV Prishchepov, Y Zeng, H Yin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the looming land scarcity for agriculture, cropland abandonment is widespread
globally. Abandoned cropland can be reused to support food security and climate change …

The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale

M Delgado-Baquerizo, CA Guerra, C Cano-Díaz… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding the present and future distribution of soil-borne plant pathogens is critical to
supporting food and fibre production in a warmer world. Using data from a global field …