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Nature Sustainability Alert – December 2020

Volume 3 Issue 12, December 2020

Volume 3 Issue 12

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 al.

Image: Image courtesy of Wenfei Tong. Cover design: Valentina Monaco.

Editorial

  • Editorial | 10 December 2020

    Our expert panel on food value chains now shares recommendations on how to transform agri-food systems.

Comment & Opinion

Comment | 10 December 2020

Coupling technological advances with sociocultural and policy changes can transform agri-food systems to address pressing climate, economic, environmental, health and social challenges. An international expert panel reports on options to induce contextualized combinations of innovations that can balance multiple goals.

  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Tim G. Benton
  •  & Stephen Wood

Comment | 16 September 2020

Pandemic responses can engender healthier and more sustainable societies only if we attend to urban equality.

  • Michele Acuto
  • Shaun Larcom
  •  & Susan Parnell

Q&A | 10 August 2020

Michael Norton, from the European Academies Science Advisory Council, and Baldwyn Torto, from the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, talk with Nature Sustainability about recent efforts to address neonicotinoid insecticide risks in Africa.

  • William R. Burnside

Reviews

  • Review Article | 19 August 2020

    Converging evidence indicates that SARS-CoVs are present in wastewater for several days with potential health risks. This Review analyses knowledge about such risks as well as the potential spread of SARS-CoVs in waterborne, waterborne–aerosolized and waterborne–foodborne pathways during a pandemic.

    • Anne Bogler
    • Aaron Packman
    •  & Edo Bar-Zeev

    Collection:

    Review Article | 14 September 2020

    Biodeterioration of stone monuments and buildings can lead to a loss of world cultural heritage. This Review discusses the role of microbes in the deterioration processes, the biochemical mechanisms involved and possible strategies for sustainable conservation of stone monuments and buildings.

    • Xiaobo Liu
    • Robert J. Koestler
    •  & Ji-Dong Gu

Research

  • Article | 07 July 2020

    Urban air quality remained remarkably worse than WHO recommended levels in cities during the first COVID-19 lockdown in China, despite substantial pollution reductions and the high costs of the measure.

    • Guojun He
    • Yuhang Pan
    •  & Takanao Tanaka

    Article | 24 August 2020

    Water use may be a topic of increased research, but water theft remains understudied. This paper utilizes insights from three international case studies to inform on the systemic failures that sustain water theft.

    • A. Loch
    • C. D. Pérez-Blanco
    •  & C. Seidl

    Article | 18 May 2020

    A large-scale land-titling programme in the Brazilian Amazon did not affect forest cover in large landholdings, but induced deforestation in the small and medium ones, driven by crop and cattle price increases.

    • Benedict Probst
    • Ariel BenYishay
    •  & Tiago N. P. dos Reis

    Article | 10 August 2020

    Neonicotinoid insecticides have the potential to harm non-target organisms. This study finds that, between 2008 and 2014, increased neonicotinoid use in the United States reduced bird diversity, especially grassland and insectivorous birds.

    • Yijia Li
    • Ruiqing Miao
    •  & Madhu Khanna

    Article | 20 July 2020

    Although deserts have been the focus of large-scale solar power development, this study finds that ecosystem services are degraded during such development, with impacts not only on plants and animals, but indigenous peoples as well.

    • Steven M. Grodsky
    •  & Rebecca R. Hernandez

    Article | 03 August 2020

    The most-efficient solar cells use Pb-based halide perovskites; however, their toxicity poses environmental and health risks. Here, the authors report an adsorbent that allows for sustainable Pb management in these devices.

    • So Yeon Park
    • Ji-Sang Park
    •  & Hyun Suk Jung

    Article | 10 August 2020

    Light-responsive smart materials hold promise for a solution to water desalination. Here the authors report an adsorbent based on a metal–organic framework that quickly adsorbs multiple ions from water in the dark, followed by release of these salts on exposure to sunlight.

    • Ranwen Ou
    • Huacheng Zhang
    •  & Huanting Wang

    Article | 10 August 2020

    Perfluorochemicals render fabrics water and oil repellent; however, their use poses environmental and health risks. Here, the authors show the rational design of textile finishes with excellent oil repellency without adopting any perfluorinated substances.

    • Sadaf Shabanian
    • Behrooz Khatir
    •  & Kevin Golovin

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