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A waste-free future for fashion

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-025-01542-8

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Certifying the sustainability of herding practices in Mongolia

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-025-01511-1

Steve J. Sinclair, Khorloo Batpurev, Canran Liu, Otgonsuren Avirmed, Batbold Avirmed, Bertrand Ricard, Matt D. White, Ariunbold Erdengerel, Daniel J. Miller, Kirk Olson

{"title":"Certifying the sustainability of herding practices in Mongolia","authors":"Steve J. Sinclair, Khorloo Batpurev, Canran Liu, Otgonsuren Avirmed, Batbold Avirmed, Bertrand Ricard, Matt D. White, Ariunbold Erdengerel, Daniel J. Miller, Kirk Olson","doi":"10.1038/s41893-025-01511-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-025-01511-1","url":null,"abstract":"Certification schemes for agriculture aim to incentivize sustainable land management. To be credible, they need robust metrics to assess the practices of producers. We demonstrate an approach for evaluating practice, which is repeatable and explicitly representative of stakeholders. We apply it to nomadic pastoralism in Mongolia, where livestock overgrazing is of concern. Our approach uses judgements from stakeholders about the sustainability of hypothetical but realistic herding scenarios. From these, we create models to predict sustainability scores. These can be applied as tools to assess the actual practices of herders. We use two judgement datasets: one representing producers’ judgements, another a subset that also conforms to the environmental expectations of the certifier. The differences must be negotiated when we choose evaluation methods. The approach could be used for any production system, provided variables are devised that summarize practice and appropriate stakeholders are available to judge the sustainability of different practices. Credible sustainability certifications require robust evaluation to ensure trustworthiness; however, judgements of sustainable practices may differ between the practitioners and the certifiers. Stakeholder engagement can help bridge this gap to provide robust certification evaluation.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"8 3","pages":"245-255"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143690305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Alarming patterns of mature forest loss in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-025-01508-w

Silvana Amaral, Jean Paul Metzger, Marcos Rosa, Bruno Vargas Adorno, Gabriel Crivellaro Gonçalves, Luis Fernando Guedes Pinto

{"title":"Alarming patterns of mature forest loss in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest","authors":"Silvana Amaral, Jean Paul Metzger, Marcos Rosa, Bruno Vargas Adorno, Gabriel Crivellaro Gonçalves, Luis Fernando Guedes Pinto","doi":"10.1038/s41893-025-01508-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-025-01508-w","url":null,"abstract":"The Brazilian Atlantic Forest is a global biodiversity hotspot that harbours a high number of endemic species and provides important ecosystem services. However, a long history of deforestation means that only 24% of its original forest cover remains and studies are needed to examine the spatial and temporal patterns of forest loss to better understand the effectiveness of current laws in curbing deforestation in this important biome. Here we provide a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative time-series analysis of mature forest loss within the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. From 2010 to 2020, we detected 14,401 deforestation polygons, resulting in a loss of 186,289 ha, most of it with a high likelihood of illegality. These losses occurred mainly in small-sized patches on private lands for agricultural expansion, but also in protected areas and Indigenous lands. Deforestation is concentrated in two hotspots that involve different agricultural actors and land-use change processes. This pattern could lead to species extinctions, ecosystem service losses and a weakened capacity to address climate change, thus challenging the effectiveness of mechanisms currently used to counter deforestation. Implementing further incentive, protection and enforcement measures could aid in progress towards zero deforestation in this critically important habitat. The highly biodiverse Brazilian Atlantic Forest has a long history of deforestation and only a small portion of the original forest remains. This study examines the spatial and temporal patterns of this deforestation to understand the effectiveness of current laws at curbing forest loss.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"8 3","pages":"256-264"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143690337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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When deforestation happens and should not

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-025-01516-w

Stuart Pimm

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Impact of truck electrification on air pollution disparities in the United States

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-025-01515-x

Wilson H. McNeil, Jason Porzio, Fan Tong, Robert A. Harley, Maximilian Auffhammer, Corinne D. Scown

{"title":"Impact of truck electrification on air pollution disparities in the United States","authors":"Wilson H. McNeil, Jason Porzio, Fan Tong, Robert A. Harley, Maximilian Auffhammer, Corinne D. Scown","doi":"10.1038/s41893-025-01515-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-025-01515-x","url":null,"abstract":"Electrifying heavy-duty trucks reduces on-road diesel emissions but shifts the burden of supplying energy to power-generation facilities. The combined effect of Inflation Reduction Act investments in grid decarbonization and truck electrification will alter the magnitude and distribution of air pollution burdens across the United States. These investments are intended to facilitate a just energy transition, with 40% of the benefits flowing to disadvantaged communities per the Justice40 Initiative. Here we evaluate the combined effects of Inflation Reduction Act grid decarbonization and truck electrification investments on a national scale to determine whether the air pollution benefits would meet this 40% goal for both disadvantaged communities and the most exposed racial–ethnic groups. We find that truck electrification and decarbonization reduce air-pollution-related premature mortality in disadvantaged communities. However, the relative disparity between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged communities increases, suggesting that a disproportionate share of benefits accrue to non-disadvantaged communities. Whereas absolute disparity in grid emissions decreases over time for all racial–ethnic groups, relative disparity remains largely unchanged, with Black populations being the most exposed. Electrifying drayage corridors would result in comparatively large health benefits for disadvantaged communities, suggesting that increasing targeted electrification investments in short-haul routes near urban areas (for example, ports) could be promising. Grid decarbonization and truck electrification investments in the United States aim to support a just energy transition. Although such efforts reduce air-pollution-related premature mortality in disadvantaged communities, the relative disparity between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged communities increases.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"8 3","pages":"276-286"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-025-01515-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143690308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Rising socio-economic costs of PM2.5 pollution and medical service mismatching

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-025-01509-9

Xiaoyan Xu, Liqiao Huang, Liming Yao, Yoshikuni Yoshida, Yin Long

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Economic costs of wind erosion in the United States

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01506-4

Irene Y. Feng, Thomas E. Gill, R. Scott Van Pelt, Nicholas P. Webb, Daniel Q. Tong

{"title":"Economic costs of wind erosion in the United States","authors":"Irene Y. Feng, Thomas E. Gill, R. Scott Van Pelt, Nicholas P. Webb, Daniel Q. Tong","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01506-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01506-4","url":null,"abstract":"Wind erosion and resulting dust negatively impact the environment and society, but there has been no comprehensive assessment of costs to the United States since the 1990s. Climate and society have changed greatly since then, including changing dustiness, spiking Valley fever infections and increased renewable energy use. By adopting published estimates and calculating emerging costs, we estimate that wind erosion and dust in the United States cost $154.4 billion annually (2017 value). This estimate quadruples the previous assessment and is higher than most other US weather and climate disasters. We also discovered many costs associated with wind erosion that are not accounted for. Our estimate, while conservative, reveals that the economic burden of wind erosion is substantial and investment in dust mitigation could yield large economic benefits. Wind erosion and dust transport present challenges to human wellbeing, health and infrastructure. Last estimated for the United States in the 1990s, present economic costs of wind erosion across the United States have nearly quadrupled, and an updated assessment of vulnerable systems is required.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"8 3","pages":"307-314"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143690297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Electrochemical lithium recycling from spent batteries with electricity generation

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01505-5

Weiping Wang, Zaichun Liu, Zhengxin Zhu, Yirui Ma, Kai Zhang, Yahan Meng, Touqeer Ahmad, Nawab Ali Khan, Qia Peng, Zehui Xie, Zuodong Zhang, Wei Chen

{"title":"Electrochemical lithium recycling from spent batteries with electricity generation","authors":"Weiping Wang, Zaichun Liu, Zhengxin Zhu, Yirui Ma, Kai Zhang, Yahan Meng, Touqeer Ahmad, Nawab Ali Khan, Qia Peng, Zehui Xie, Zuodong Zhang, Wei Chen","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01505-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01505-5","url":null,"abstract":"Lithium (Li) plays a crucial role in Li-ion batteries (LIBs), an important technology supporting the global transition to a low-carbon society. Recycling Li from spent LIBs can maximize the Li resource utilization efficiency, promote the circularity of the Li cycle and improve the sustainability of LIBs. However, conventional methods generally require substantial chemicals and energy inputs. Here we show an electrochemical method enabling simultaneous Li recycling from spent LIBs and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) capture from waste gas, producing electricity and high-purity (>99%) lithium nitrate (LiNO3). This method is waste-free and requires no massive chemical consumptions or energy inputs, while achieving high lithium recovery efficiencies of up to 97% and realizing considerable energy output of 66 Wh per kilogram of treated electrode. The potential controlled NO2 reduction reaction enables selective NO2 capture from industrial waste gas. Our work makes Li recycling more environmentally friendly and economically feasible, paving the way to a more sustainable Li cycle that would contribute to realize the circular economy. Recycling lithium (Li) from spent Li-ion batteries (LIBs) can promote the circularity of Li resources, but often requires substantial chemical and energy inputs. This study shows an electrochemical method enabling Li recycling from spent LIBs with electricity generation and minimized chemical input.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"8 3","pages":"287-296"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143690323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Towards sustainable aquaculture in the Amazon

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01500-w

Felipe S. Pacheco, Sebastian A. Heilpern, Claire DiLeo, Rafael M. Almeida, Suresh A. Sethi, Marcela Miranda, Nicholas Ray, Nathan O. Barros, Jucilene Cavali, Carolina Costa, Carolina R. Doria, Joshua Fan, Kathryn J. Fiorella, Bruce R. Forsberg, Marcelo Gomes, Laura Greenstreet, Meredith Holgerson, David McGrath, Peter B. McIntyre, Patricia Moraes-Valenti, Ilce Oliveira, Jean P. H. B. Ometto, Fabio Roland, Adry Trindade, Marta E. Ummus, Wagner C. Valenti, Xiangtao Xu, Carla P. Gomes, Alexander S. Flecker

{"title":"Towards sustainable aquaculture in the Amazon","authors":"Felipe S. Pacheco, Sebastian A. Heilpern, Claire DiLeo, Rafael M. Almeida, Suresh A. Sethi, Marcela Miranda, Nicholas Ray, Nathan O. Barros, Jucilene Cavali, Carolina Costa, Carolina R. Doria, Joshua Fan, Kathryn J. Fiorella, Bruce R. Forsberg, Marcelo Gomes, Laura Greenstreet, Meredith Holgerson, David McGrath, Peter B. McIntyre, Patricia Moraes-Valenti, Ilce Oliveira, Jean P. H. B. Ometto, Fabio Roland, Adry Trindade, Marta E. Ummus, Wagner C. Valenti, Xiangtao Xu, Carla P. Gomes, Alexander S. Flecker","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01500-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01500-w","url":null,"abstract":"Aquaculture in the Amazon holds the potential to meet increasing food demands while offering economic opportunities in a region facing deforestation and biodiversity loss. However, expanding aquaculture in this biodiverse region comes with complex environmental and social trade-offs. This Review explores how aquaculture can support sustainable development by minimizing its environmental impact, promoting equitable livelihoods and enhancing food security. It also highlights key challenges, such as greenhouse gas emissions and land-use changes, that need to be addressed for aquaculture to thrive sustainably in the Amazon. The aquaculture sector in the Amazon is an important source of food and livelihood provision; however, it is associated with environmental and ecological risks. This Review assesses aquaculture in the Amazon, offering insights into the challenges and opportunities for its sustainable growth.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"8 3","pages":"234-244"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143690324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01504-6

Ivan Savin, Lewis C. King, Jeroen van den Bergh

{"title":"Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics","authors":"Ivan Savin, Lewis C. King, Jeroen van den Bergh","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01504-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01504-6","url":null,"abstract":"Parties to the Paris Agreement submit their climate action plans, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), which outline mitigation targets and strategies to achieve them. While existing research has focused on assessing the mitigation targets, there is a wealth of broader textual content within the documents that has received little attention. Using natural language processing to systematically analyse the full textual content of all NDCs, we identify 21 topics that form seven thematic groups: development, implementation and planning, mitigation targets, policies and technologies, climate change impacts, agriculture and ecosystems, and stakeholders. We also examine how attention to specific topics has evolved over time and across parties. We find that high-income countries, typically shouldering greater historical responsibility for emissions, tend to focus on mitigation targets but provide limited detail on concrete policies being implemented. In contrast, developing countries often frame their NDCs within broader visions of sustainable development, balancing mitigation with adaptation and competing development goals. Establishing a standardized, transparent NDC format could enhance comparability of the plans of parties and assessment of how mitigation targets will be achieved while balancing trade-offs and co-benefits with other sustainable development goals. Parties to the Paris Agreement state their climate goals, and any action plans to meet them, in their nationally determined contributions. This study uses computational linguistic analysis to shed light on the deeper discourse within such documents.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"8 3","pages":"297-306"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143690299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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