Adapting agriculture to climate change via sustainable irrigation: biophysical potentials and feedbacks

L Rosa - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Irrigated agriculture accounts for∼ 90% of anthropogenic freshwater consumption, is
deployed on 22% of cultivated land, and provides 40% of global food production. Expanding …

Health-promoting phytonutrients are higher in grass-fed meat and milk

S Van Vliet, FD Provenza, SL Kronberg - Frontiers in Sustainable …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
While commission reports and nutritional guidelines raise concerns about the effects of
consuming red meat on human health, the impacts of how livestock are raised and finished …

Towards sustainable saline agriculture: Interfacial solar evaporation for simultaneous seawater desalination and saline soil remediation

P Wu, X Wu, Y Wang, H Xu, G Owens - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Interfacial solar steam generation is an efficient way to produce freshwater from saline water.
This technology was further harnessed here for simultaneous saline soil remediation and …

Global agricultural water scarcity assessment incorporating blue and green water availability under future climate change

X Liu, W Liu, Q Tang, B Liu, Y Wada, H Yang - Earth's Future, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change was projected to have negative effects on water availability and
consequently a serious constraint to food production in many areas of the world. However …

Stretchable and superhydrophilic polyaniline/halloysite decorated nanofiber composite evaporator for high efficiency seawater desalination

J Han, W Xing, J Yan, J Wen, Y Liu, Y Wang… - Advanced Fiber …, 2022 - Springer
Here, authors report on composition of a stretchable, mechanically durable and
superhydrophilic polyaniline (PANI)/halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) decorated PU nanofiber …

Membrane-based water and wastewater treatment technologies: Issues, current trends, challenges, and role in achieving sustainable development goals, and circular …

N Shehata, D Egirani, AG Olabi, A Inayat… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane-based technologies are recently being considered as effective methods for
conventional water and wastewater remediation processes to achieve the increasing …

[HTML][HTML] The environmental footprint of data centers in the United States

MAB Siddik, A Shehabi, L Marston - Environmental Research …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Much of the world's data are stored, managed, and distributed by data centers. Data centers
require a tremendous amount of energy to operate, accounting for around 1.8% of electricity …

Fully biomass-based hybrid hydrogel for efficient solar desalination with salt self-cleaning property

X Liu, Y Tian, Y Wu, F Chen, Y Mu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Solar-driven interfacial steam generation provides an opportunity for solar harvesting and
freshwater yield as a promising and eco-friendly technology. Here, we demonstrate a …

Global spread of water scarcity risk through trade

X Chen, B Zhao, C Shuai, S Qu, M Xu - Resources, Conservation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Water scarcity is increasingly perceived as a great challenge to the sustainable
development of human society. The economic output loss due to water scarcity is defined as …

Blue water footprint linked to national consumption and international trade is unsustainable

MM Mekonnen, AY Hoekstra - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
Increasing pressure on the world's freshwater resources raises serious concerns about
global food security and the sustainability of water use in agriculture. Here we quantify and …