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Lack of scientific humility and dialogue hampers progress towards sustainable agriculture 缺乏科学谦逊和对话阻碍了可持续农业的发展

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-12-06 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01488-3

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Efficacy of mitigation strategies for aquifer sustainability under climate change

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-12-06 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01477-6

Chetan Sharma, Hakan Başağaoğlu, Icen Yoosefdoost, Adrienne Wootten, Debarati Chakraborty-Reddy, F. Paul Bertetti, Ali Mirchi, Debaditya Chakraborty

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City–company collaboration towards aligned science-based target setting

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-12-04 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01473-w

Şiir Kılkış, Anders Bjørn, Xuemei Bai, Jianguo Liu, Gail Whiteman, Beatrice Crona, Lauren Seaby Andersen, Syezlin Hasan, Varsha Vijay, Oscar Sabag

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Progress towards sustainable agriculture hampered by siloed scientific discourses

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01474-9

Klara Fischer, Giulia Vico, Helena Röcklinsberg, Hans Liljenström, Riccardo Bommarco

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Global evidence of human well-being and biodiversity impacts of natural climate solutions

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01454-z

Charlotte H. Chang, James T. Erbaugh, Paola Fajardo, Luci Lu, István Molnár, Dávid Papp, Brian E. Robinson, Kemen G. Austin, Miguel Castro, Samantha H. Cheng, Susan Cook-Patton, Peter W. Ellis, Teevrat Garg, Jacob P. Hochard, Timm Kroeger, Robert I. McDonald, Erin E. Poor, Lindsey S. Smart, Andrew R. Tilman, Preston Welker, Stephen A. Wood, Yuta J. Masuda

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Potential increase of neurotoxic mercury risk in global blue carbon nature-based solutions 全球基于自然的蓝碳解决方案中神经毒性汞风险的潜在增加

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-11-29 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01471-y

Zhijia Ci, Wenjie Shen, Baowei Chen, Yanbin Li, Yongguang Yin, Xiaoshan Zhang, Yong Cai

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Mercury risk in blue carbon ecosystems 蓝碳生态系统中的汞风险

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-11-29 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01472-x

Zhijia Ci, Wenjie Shen, Baowei Chen, Yanbin Li, Yongguang Yin, Xiaoshan Zhang, Yong Cai

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Nutrient recycling potential of excreta for global crop and grassland production

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01467-8

Mariana Devault, Dominic Woolf, Johannes Lehmann

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Realizing soil health for food security in Africa

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01482-9

Sieg Snapp, Jordan Chamberlin, Leigh Winowiecki, Tilahun Amede, Ermias Aynekulu, Samuel Gameda, Jeffrey E. Herrick, Rattan Lal, Paswel Marenya, Latha Nagarajan, Zachary Stewart, Tor Vågen

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Author Correction: An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production 作者更正：对放牧反刍动物奶和肉生产的生物多样性限制的探索

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-11-25 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01498-1

Kajsa Resare Sahlin, Line J. Gordon, Regina Lindborg, Johannes Piipponen, Pierre Van Rysselberge, Julia Rouet-Leduc, Elin Röös

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