[HTML][HTML] A perspective on RNAi-based biopesticides

SJ Fletcher, PT Reeves, BT Hoang… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Sustainable agriculture relies on practices and technologies that combine effectiveness with
a minimal environmental footprint. RNA interference (RNAi), a eukaryotic process in which …

Reservoir sedimentation

AJ Schleiss, MJ Franca, C Juez… - Journal of Hydraulic …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Artificial water storage, originated by the construction of dams, is essential for the
sustainable health and welfare of civilizations since it supplies water for human …

Limited potential of no-till agriculture for climate change mitigation

DS Powlson, CM Stirling, ML Jat, BG Gerard… - Nature climate …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract The Emissions Gap Report 2013 from the United Nations Environment Programme
restates the claim that changing to no-till practices in agriculture, as an alternative to …

Groundwater quality and depletion in the Indo-Gangetic Basin mapped from in situ observations

AM MacDonald, HC Bonsor, KM Ahmed… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Groundwater abstraction from the transboundary Indo-Gangetic Basin comprises 25% of
global groundwater withdrawals, sustaining agricultural productivity in Pakistan, India, Nepal …

Heat stress: physiology of acclimation and adaptation

RJ Collier, LH Baumgard, RB Zimbelman… - Animal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
† School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson,
AZ 85745‡ Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011|| Dairy …

The global nexus of food–trade–water sustaining environmental flows by 2050

AV Pastor, A Palazzo, P Havlik, H Biemans… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
In the face of meeting Sustainable Development Goals for the water–food–energy–
ecosystems nexus, integrated assessments are a great means to measure the impact of …

Global imprint of climate change on marine life

ES Poloczanska, CJ Brown, WJ Sydeman… - Nature climate …, 2013 - nature.com
Past meta-analyses of the response of marine organisms to climate change have examined
a limited range of locations,, taxonomic groups,, and/or biological responses,. This has …

Armed-conflict risks enhanced by climate-related disasters in ethnically fractionalized countries

CF Schleussner, JF Donges… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Social and political tensions keep on fueling armed conflicts around the world. Although
each conflict is the result of an individual context-specific mixture of interconnected factors …

Addressing the risk of maladaptation to climate change

AK Magnan, ELF Schipper, M Burkett… - Wiley …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews the current theoretical scholarship on maladaptation and provides some
specific case studies—in the Maldives, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Bangladesh—to advance …

[HTML][HTML] Overview of biodiesel combustion in mitigating the adverse impacts of engine emissions on the sustainable human–environment scenario

O Ogunkunle, NA Ahmed - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Air pollution is a precursor to many health issues such as difficulty breathing, asthma, lung
and heart diseases, and cancer. This study presents a concise view of biodiesel combustion …