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{"title":"Increased dengue transmission following highway paving in the Peruvian Amazon","authors":"Alyson L. Singleton, Andres G. Lescano, Kevin S. Martel, Andrew J. MacDonald, Lisa Mandle, Terrell J. Sipin, Ana S. M. Bautista, Esteban D. R. Carrera, Gustavo A. Choque, César V. Munayco, Stephen P. Luby, Erin A. Mordecai","doi":"10.1038/s41893-026-01879-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-026-01879-8","url":null,"abstract":"Rapid expansion of transportation infrastructure is transforming tropical environments, yet the health impacts of these changes remain poorly understood and are rarely accounted for in impact assessments. We apply a quasi-experimental approach to quantify the impact of highway paving on infectious disease transmission. The 2009 paving of the Interoceanic Highway through the previously isolated Madre de Dios region of the Peruvian Amazon offered a natural experiment to evaluate how highway paving influences transmission of dengue virus, a high-burden mosquito-borne disease. We compared dengue incidence data from healthcare facilities in Madre de Dios near versus far from the highway before and after paving, while controlling for observable and unobservable confounding variables (a difference-in-differences causal inference approach). Paving led to an additional 10,950 (95% confidence interval of 3,186–18,715) dengue cases since 2009, a 403% (117–689%) increase in incidence rates in facilities near the highway in the 14 years since paving (2009–2022), compared with their pre-paving incidence rates. Our findings demonstrate the impact that infrastructure can have on dengue transmission, likely via its effects on human mobility and vector dispersal. Future road construction plans in tropical regions should account for potential increases in dengue transmission during impact assessments. Road construction can be crucial in providing economic opportunities, yet how such infrastructure development links to infectious disease transmission is uncertain. This study examines the role of the 2009 highway construction in the Madre de Dios region of Peru on dengue transmission dynamics.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"9 10","pages":"1595-1606"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149214738","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}

{"title":"A campus sustainability journey","authors":"Yaoqing Zhang","doi":"10.1038/s41893-026-01884-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-026-01884-x","url":null,"abstract":"Radenka Maric, the president of the University of Connecticut (UConn), talks to Nature Sustainability about her institution’s transition towards a sustainable campus, highlighting the critical roles of governance structures, infrastructure projects, and educational initiatives fostering sustainability literacy.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"9 8","pages":"1133-1134"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148785267","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}

{"title":"Biodiversity recovery is slow following clear-cut harvest of boreal forests","authors":"S. Ellen Macdonald, Anne C. S. McIntosh, Selena Schut, Samuel Bartels, Seung-Il Lee, Elvira Baisheva, Jeff Battigelli, Erin Bayne, Yves Bergeron, Mathieu Bouchard, Brendan Casey, Mats Dynesius, I. Tanya Handa, Joakim Hjältén, Kristoffer Hylander, Matti Koivula, Jari Kouki, Therese Löfroth, Asko Lõhmus, Anders Nielsen, Sonya Odsen, Manuela Panzacchi, Jaime Pinzon, Peter B. Reich, Pavel Shirokikh, Ekaterina Shorohova, Ilkka Vanha-Majamaa, Lisa Venier, Tim Work, Linhao Wu","doi":"10.1038/s41893-026-01868-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-026-01868-x","url":null,"abstract":"Boreal forests are important reservoirs of biodiversity, carbon and timber stocks. However, timber harvest can alter biodiversity in these forests without clear evidence on the duration needed for biotic groups to recover. Resilience of boreal forest biodiversity to clear-cut harvest was examined with a meta-analysis of 190 datasets from boreal and hemi-boreal forests of Europe/Russia and North America for arthropods, birds, small mammals, lichens, bryophytes and vascular plants. We modelled similarity of community composition between harvested and unharvested stands versus years post harvest. In approximately half of cases, predicted times for recovery to pre-harvest composition were ≤30 years. In other cases, recovery took much longer or had not occurred within the timeframe of our data; for example, in conifer forest: >100 years (bryophytes), >55 years (small mammals), ~95 years (lichens) and ~85 years (vascular plants). Saproxylic beetles showed no resilience within the 16 (conifer forest) or 29 (mixed forest) years post harvest for which we had data. Recovery generally took longer in conifer and mixed than in broadleaf forests, which always showed either resistance (bryophytes, vascular plants) or resilience with recovery within 12–25 years. Conserving biodiversity in boreal forests will require extended rotations, management for ‘old forest’ structural elements and areas protected from harvesting. Clear-cut timber harvest in boreal forests impacts local biodiversity; however, it is still unclear how quickly biotic groups rebound from such disturbances. This meta-analysis determines the resilience of biotic groups to clear-cut harvest across boreal forests of Europe/Russia and North America.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"9 10","pages":"1607-1617"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-026-01868-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149214741","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}

{"title":"Decoupling development from concrete","authors":"Seth Kane","doi":"10.1038/s41893-026-01883-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-026-01883-y","url":null,"abstract":"Enormous consumption of concrete is straining planetary boundaries, yet it remains unclear how to reduce resource burdens while sustaining human development. A study now finds that concrete demand in rapidly developing economies has driven increased resource use over the past three decades, and production improvements have only marginally reduced resource burdens.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"9 7","pages":"956-957"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148522990","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}

{"title":"Fast solvation restructuring accelerates interfacial charge transfer","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41893-026-01866-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-026-01866-z","url":null,"abstract":"Interfacial electrochemical reaction kinetics are crucial to fast charging and low-temperature operation of batteries. We now reveal that solvent exchange dynamics of solvated ions are intrinsically coupled with their interfacial electrochemical reaction kinetics. An electrolyte designed using this insight enables fast charging and low-temperature operation in lithium-ion batteries.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"9 10","pages":"1487-1488"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149214739","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}

{"title":"Greater losses from heat exposure experienced by female smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Lan Wu, Yingnan Zhang, Hualou Long, Wenkai Bao, Wu Xiao, Binlei Gong, Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Li Ma, Liqing Peng, Wenbo Li, Xuwen Gao, Yuanli Zhu, Fujie Rao","doi":"10.1038/s41893-026-01881-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-026-01881-0","url":null,"abstract":"Intensifying heat anomalies place women at disproportionate risks from crop damage and food insecurity but such observed temperature–yield dynamics are difficult to quantify. Evidence remains insufficient on how gendered agricultural sensitivities are affected by normative barriers and resource allocations across plots, households and communities. Here we estimate yield responses of 60,558 agricultural plots in sub-Saharan Africa to within- and cross-country temperature variation. We find that female smallholders are subject to heat impacts 2–2.5 times those of male smallholders, with further evidence of intrahousehold heterogeneity and divergent adaptive strategies in labour adjustments and compensatory investments. Exploiting yearly weather fluctuations, each additional degree-day of extreme heat exposure causes 1.4–2.4% greater declines in both yield and total factor productivity for female plot managers, escalating to 4.4–5.0% differentials in yield losses under an additional day of high temperature. We show the role of women-targeted knowledge transfers and the reconfiguration of land inequality to reshape heat injustice. End-of-the-century warming projections indicate 7.5–19.4% higher damages on female-controlled plots, with missing yields that would meet minimum food needs of 11–15 million people each year. These findings unveil structural injustices under negative environmental shocks, calling for gender-responsive metrics in climate change adaptation frameworks. The disproportionate risks of crop damage and food insecurity from temperature anomalies affecting female smallholders are hard to measure. Estimating yield responses to temperature variation across sub-Saharan Africa, this study shows significantly higher losses to female than male smallholders.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"9 10","pages":"1517-1533"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149214734","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}

{"title":"Increasing global threat of outburst floods from overlooked small alpine lakes","authors":"Rayees Ahmed, Lydia Sam, Anshuman Bhardwaj, Anil V. Kulkarni, Shintaro Yamasaki","doi":"10.1038/s41893-026-01873-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-026-01873-0","url":null,"abstract":"Small alpine lakes are rapidly emerging as an overlooked yet critical component of cryospheric risk in high-mountain regions worldwide. Hazard and risk assessments have long prioritized large alpine lakes, but the accelerating formation of small lakes in unstable, deglaciating terrain reveals a major blind spot in monitoring, modelling and policy frameworks. Here we argue that despite their modest size, these lakes have already triggered destructive outburst floods, disproportionately affecting remote and marginalized communities with limited adaptive capacity. Advancing mountain sustainability therefore requires integrating these consequential hazards into climate and disaster governance to ensure equitable, risk-informed resilience in a warming world. Outburst floods from small alpine lakes pose a growing risk to mountain communities, which are often already marginalized and lack adaptation options. Cryosphere degradation accelerates these threats, adding urgency to integrate small high-mountain lakes into climate and disaster policy.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"9 9","pages":"1307-1316"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148981548","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}

{"title":"Resource consumption in global concrete production","authors":"Seth Kane, Daniel Costa Reis, Sabbie A. Miller","doi":"10.1038/s41893-026-01858-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-026-01858-z","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, concrete production surpasses that of all other engineered materials by over threefold, with production approximately 20 times greater than steel and 40 times greater than solid-wood products. Meeting this material demand can lead to localized resource scarcity, degradation of ecosystems and human health burdens. Concrete is produced mostly from local resources, and the flows are not monitored well, making it difficult to quantify and reduce consumption. Here we determine the mineral, energy and water resources consumed to produce concrete worldwide, including resource wastage. Our results show that 30 Gt of mineral, energy resources and water resources were used directly to make concrete and other Portland cement-based products in 2019; however, when including losses of resources due to hidden flows (for example, a function of resource composition), inefficiencies (for example, energy conversion) or requirements in the supply chain (for example, water for processes), we find that 66 Gt of these resources were consumed, suggesting existing estimates drastically underestimate resource consumption in global concrete production. Understanding this hidden resource consumption is essential for developing mitigation strategies and policies to reduce the environmental and resource-use burdens of concrete production. Concrete production exceeds that of other construction materials, yet the resources required are poorly tracked. This study quantifies the global inputs and hidden losses, revealing that 66 Gt of mineral, energy and water resources were consumed in 2019—more than double previous direct-use estimates.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"9 7","pages":"1109-1117"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148522967","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}

{"title":"Dynamic solvent exchange for fast-charging lithium batteries and beyond","authors":"Chang-Xin Zhao, Zheng Li, Daoning Zhang, Nan Zhang, Qiu Zhang, Zeyi Wang, Yue Li, Yawei Chen, Chunsheng Wang","doi":"10.1038/s41893-026-01871-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-026-01871-2","url":null,"abstract":"Fast charging and low-temperature operation are essential for next-generation energy storage. However, high-energy batteries struggle to meet these demands as existing electrolytes cannot simultaneously deliver fast interfacial kinetics, high ionic conductivity and favourable interphase formation. Prevailing strategies focus on weakening thermodynamic solvation, yet this approach does not directly address the kinetic bottleneck, that is, the desolvation barrier governing interfacial charge transfer. Here we reveal that the desolvation kinetics are dictated by dynamic solvent exchange rather than thermodynamic solvation energy. Guided by this mechanistic insight, we have formulated an electrolyte in which two anions carry distinct anionic potentials: high-anionic-potential anions form contact ion pairs that accelerate solvation-exchange kinetics, while low-anionic-potential anions form solvent-separated ion pairs that sustain high bulk ionic conductivity. The electrolyte enables fast charging and low-temperature operation in high-loading lithium-ion batteries. The design principle was further validated in aqueous aluminium-ion electrochemical systems, underscoring its broader relevance to sustainable, resource-abundant battery chemistries beyond the lithium ion. Together, our findings establish a new electrolyte design paradigm that decouples interfacial and bulk transport properties and expands the design space of battery electrolyte systems. This work identifies dynamic solvent exchange as the governing kinetic descriptor for desolvation, enabling a dual-anion electrolyte design that overcomes traditional trade-offs to achieve fast-charging, all-climate battery performance.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"9 10","pages":"1651-1661"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149214748","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}

{"title":"Material equality undermined by global trade","authors":"Sonya Ahamed","doi":"10.1038/s41893-026-01838-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-026-01838-3","url":null,"abstract":"Meeting the increasing demand for water, energy and food of the global population in a just and sustainable manner is an urgent challenge. A study now maps how these essential, interdependent systems are leveraged in international trade, quantifying both physical and virtual flows across countries.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"9 6","pages":"787-788"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148300149","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}