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Recent PM2.5 air quality improvements in India benefited from meteorological variation 印度近期 PM2.5 空气质量的改善得益于气象变化

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-07-05 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01366-y

Yuanyu Xie, Mi Zhou, Kieran M. R. Hunt, Denise L. Mauzerall

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Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship 娱乐性捕杀野生动物可促进环境管理

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-07-03 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01379-7

Samuel Shephard, Erica von Essen, Thorsten Gieser, Charles J. List, Robert Arlinghaus

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Economic drivers of deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon 巴西亚马逊法定森林砍伐的经济驱动因素

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-06-27 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01387-7

Eduardo A. Haddad, Inácio F. Araújo, Rafael Feltran-Barbieri, Fernando S. Perobelli, Ademir Rocha, Karina S. Sass, Carlos A. Nobre

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Offsetting the greenhouse gas footprint of hydropower with floating solar photovoltaics 用浮动太阳能光伏发电抵消水力发电的温室气体足迹

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-06-26 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01384-w

Rafael M. Almeida, Areefin-Ul-Hassan Chowdhury, Hansapani Rodrigo, Mingxu Li, Rafael J. P. Schmitt

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Unintended consequences of using maps to communicate sea-level rise 利用地图宣传海平面上升的意外后果

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-06-26 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01380-0

Matto Mildenberger, Alexander Sahn, Chris Miljanich, Michelle A. Hummel, Mark Lubell, Jennifer R. Marlon

{"title":"Unintended consequences of using maps to communicate sea-level rise","authors":"Matto Mildenberger, Alexander Sahn, Chris Miljanich, Michelle A. Hummel, Mark Lubell, Jennifer R. Marlon","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01380-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01380-0","url":null,"abstract":"Sea-level rise caused by climate change poses enormous social and economic costs, yet governments and coastal residents are still not taking the mitigation and adaptation steps necessary to protect their communities and property. In response, advocates have attempted to raise threat salience by disseminating maps of projected sea-level rise. We test the efficacy of this ubiquitous communication tool using two high spatial-resolution survey experiments (n = 1,243). Our first experiment, in US coastal communities across four US states, exposes households on either side of projected sea-level rise boundaries to individually tailored risk maps. We find this common risk communication approach has the unintended consequence of reducing concern about future sea-level rise, even among households projected to experience flooding this century. In a second experiment on our sample (n = 737) of San Francisco Bay Area coastal residents, direct communications about impacts on traffic patterns does increase concern about future climate impacts. Map-based risk information increases support for collective spending on climate adaptation, but it does not increase individual intentions to contribute. Our results demonstrate the importance of empirically testing messaging campaigns for climate adaptation. Getting coastal residents to understand the risk of rising sea levels can be difficult. This study finds that showing individuals top-down maps of future sea-level boundaries can be counterproductive to making residents concerned about climate impacts.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"7 8","pages":"1018-1026"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142021832","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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Messaging risk to drive coastal adaptation 传递风险信息，推动沿海地区的适应行动

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-06-26 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01353-3

Tracy Kijewski-Correa

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Best practices for photocatalytic water splitting 光催化水分离的最佳实践

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-06-25 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01382-y

Takashi Hisatomi, Kazunari Domen

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Threat of low-frequency high-intensity floods to global cropland and crop yields 低频率高强度洪水对全球耕地和作物产量的威胁

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-06-24 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01375-x

Jichong Han, Zhao Zhang, Jialu Xu, Yi Chen, Jonas Jägermeyr, Juan Cao, Yuchuan Luo, Fei Cheng, Huimin Zhuang, Huaqing Wu, Qinghang Mei, Jie Song, Fulu Tao

{"title":"Threat of low-frequency high-intensity floods to global cropland and crop yields","authors":"Jichong Han, Zhao Zhang, Jialu Xu, Yi Chen, Jonas Jägermeyr, Juan Cao, Yuchuan Luo, Fei Cheng, Huimin Zhuang, Huaqing Wu, Qinghang Mei, Jie Song, Fulu Tao","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01375-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01375-x","url":null,"abstract":"Flood hazards pose a significant threat to agricultural production. Agricultural adaptations tend to be prevalent and systematic in high-frequency flood (HFF) areas but neglected in low-frequency flood (LFF) areas. Here, using satellite imagery, we map global spatial distributions of LFF and HFF at 250 m resolution for 3,427 flood events between 2000 and 2021. We show that LFF affected a larger proportion of cropland area (4.7%) than HFF (1.2%), and HFF occurred in smaller regions with less intensity. Cropland expansion between 2000 and 2019 increased the area affected by LFF (3.1 × 104 km2) more than that affected by HFF (1.3 × 104 km2). Moreover, the mean yield losses of wheat and rice from LFF were greater than those from HFF, owing to the higher precipitation anomalies, soil moisture anomalies and greater crop flooding during their growing seasons. Our findings highlight the urgency of this issue and identify priority areas to prevent these neglected low-frequency but high-impact floods, providing valuable information for developing flood-adapted policy. Mitigation efforts to protect agricultural productivity against flooding focus on areas with high-frequency floods. However, agricultural regions with low-frequency floods experience a larger proportion of flood impacts, highlighting the urgency of prioritizing mitigation efforts in these regions.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"7 8","pages":"994-1006"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142021834","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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Characterizing culture’s influence in land systems 描述文化对土地系统的影响

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-06-17 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01381-z

Leonie Hodel, Yann le Polain de Waroux, Rachael D. Garrett

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Ending groundwater overdraft without affecting food security 在不影响粮食安全的情况下终止地下水超采

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Nature Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01376-w

Nicostrato Perez, Vartika Singh, Claudia Ringler, Hua Xie, Tingju Zhu, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, Karen G. Villholth

{"title":"Ending groundwater overdraft without affecting food security","authors":"Nicostrato Perez, Vartika Singh, Claudia Ringler, Hua Xie, Tingju Zhu, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, Karen G. Villholth","doi":"10.1038/s41893-024-01376-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41893-024-01376-w","url":null,"abstract":"Groundwater development is key to accelerating agricultural growth and to achieving food security in a climate crisis. However, the rapid increase in groundwater exploitation over the past four decades has resulted in depletion and degradation, particularly in regions already facing acute water scarcity, with potential irreversible impacts for food security and economic prosperity. Using a climate–water–food systems modelling framework, we develop exploratory scenarios and find that halting groundwater depletion without complementary policy actions would adversely affect food production and trade, increase food prices and grow the number of people at risk of hunger by 26 million by 2050. Supportive policy interventions in food and water systems such as increasing the effective use of precipitation and investments in agricultural research and development could mitigate most negative effects of sustainable groundwater use on food security. In addition, changing preferences of high-income countries towards less-meat-based diets would marginally alleviate pressures on food price. To safeguard the ability of groundwater systems to realize water and food security objectives amidst climate challenges, comprehensive measures encompassing improved water management practices, advancements in seed technologies and appropriate institutions will be needed. Reducing groundwater extraction to sustainable levels may have detrimental impacts on global food security. Improving rainfed water use efficiency and investments in agricultural research and development can ensure sustainable groundwater resources and food security into the future.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"7 8","pages":"1007-1017"},"PeriodicalIF":25.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01376-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141341704","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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