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Nature sustainability, December 2021

Volume 4 Issue 12, December 2021 Future coastal hardening The world’s coasts are increasingly covered with built structures, such as piers and seawalls. Using New Zealand as a case study, Floerl and colleagues find that coastal infrastructure has replaced more than half of the coastline of 30 urban centres worldwide…

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Volume 4 Issue 11, November 2021 Human activity and landslide risk in Africa Population pressure and land-use change affect landslide risk. Depicker and colleagues analyse the impact of population dynamics, conflicts and deforestation on landslide risk in the Kivu Rift region (pictured), Eastern Africa. See Depickeret al. Image: Dr. Olivier…

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Volume 4 Issue 8, August 2021 High-performance textiles from plastics As a major polluter, the fashion industry would benefit from the development of sustainable textiles. Boriskina and colleagues engineer plastic waste into wearable fabrics with combined low environmental impact and advanced functionalities such as moisture wicking, stain resistance and recyclability….

Nature Sustainability, June 2021

Volume 4 Issue 6, June 2021 Ocean litter Using comprehensive data, the study by González-Fernández and colleagues estimates the extent to which riverine floating macrolitter across Europe is transferred to the ocean while the article by Morales-Caselles and co-authors finds that global marine litter is dominated by plastics from take-out…

Nature Sustainability – May 2021

Volume 4 Issue 5, May 2021 Engineering orbital orientation for greener battery cathode chemistry The current reliance of the cathode of lithium-ion batteries on cobalt poses challenges in terms of sustainability. Xia and colleagues engineer the atomic orbitals to realize a high-performance cathode that is based on environmentally friendly and…

Nature Sustainability Alert – April 2021

Sustainable Solutions for Pollution Control | April 28 Pollution is a threat globally but most of the impacts are local and away from the source making policy solutions hard to implement. Join global researchers for a virtual conference discussing the latest research in pollution control and potential solutions. Register now…

Nature Sustainability

Volume 4 Issue 3, March 2021 Shaping sustainable cooling Cooling demand is expected to increase. A new framework of socio-economic, technological, environmental and geopolitical factors allows researchers to identify sustainable cooling solutions, which go beyond improving technology. See Khosla et al. Image: ballyscanlon / Photodisc / Getty. Cover design: Valentina…

Nature Sustainability Alert – February 2021

Nature Sustainability

Volume 4 Issue 1, January 2021 Carbon trade-offs of animal agriculture Producing meat requires more land than plants, which could be restored into ecosystems that capture carbon. Hayek and colleagues quantify the carbon opportunity cost of extensive meat production and find that shifting to plant-based diets would capture a CO2…

Nature Sustainability Alert – December 2020

Volume 3 Issue 12, December 2020 Pesticides and bird diversity Neonicotinoid pesticides are used widely, raising concerns about effects on organisms besides pests. Khanna and colleagues find that increased neonicotinoid use in the continental United States has reduced bird diversity, especially that of grassland and insectivorous birds. See Li et…

Nature sustainability, november

Volume 3 Issue 11, November 2020 Highly efficient solar-based water sanitation Solar-driven interfacial evaporation has potential for sustainable water sanitation, but controlling interfacial evaporators for solar tracking to ensure efficiency remains a challenge. Guo and colleagues create a black and super-wicking grooved surface that harnesses the sunlight and purifies water…

Nature Sustainability October 2020

Volume 3 Issue 10, October 2020 Dust and infant mortality Air pollution impacts health globally, but studying this effect is challenging because economic development worsens pollution while bettering health. Burke and colleagues focus on the health effects of distant Saharan dust, unlinked from economic activity, and find that it leads…

Nature sustainability

Volume 3 Issue 9, September 2020 Forest subsidies in Chile Given the benefits of forests, there are growing efforts to restore lost ones. This study finds that between 1986 and 2011, Chile’s forest subsidies encouraged expansion of plantations with exotic trees at the expense of native forest, likely reducing biodiversity…

Nature sustainability

Volume 3 Issue 8, August 2020 Mortality risks of survivors Little is known about the long-term effects of natural disasters on mortality risks. Frankenberg and colleagues examined how mortality and individual-specific traumatic exposures during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami affected mortality risks of survivors over the following ten years. See…

Nature sustainability – July 2020

Volume 3 Issue 7, July 2020 Converging carbon footprints Household carbon footprints reflect resource use and income level. Mi and colleagues find footprints for Chinese households generally converge with economic growth but convergence is highest in wealthy coastal regions. See Mi et al. Credit line: CHUNYIP WONG / E+ /…