Mineral dust aerosols impact the energy budget of Earth through interactions with radiation,
clouds, atmospheric chemistry, the cryosphere and biogeochemistry. In this Review, we …

During the past two centuries metal loads in the Earth's atmosphere and ecosystems have
increased significantly over pre-industrial levels. This has been associated with deleterious …

Soil organic carbon (SOC) cycling schemes used in land surface models (LSMs) typically
account only for the effects of net primary production and heterotrophic respiration. To …

The Anthropocene is proposed as a new interval of geological time in which human
influence on Earth and its geological record dominates over natural processes. A major …

Wind erosion is a typical natural hazard in arid and semiarid regions. In recent decades,
China has shown significant changes of greening trend due to a range of several ecological …

The Anthropocene is a major new concept in the Earth sciences and this book examines the
effects on geomorphology within this period. Drawing examples from many different global …

Concern with the human impact in Geomorphology has a long history. What is new is that
since 1969 a number of developments have taken place that have led to an increasing …

Anthropogenic land use and land cover change, including local environmental disturbances,
moderate rates of wind‐driven soil erosion and dust emission. These human‐dust cycle …

Anthropogenic landuse, principally agriculture, has been shown to result in increased dust
emissions from susceptible environments in a number of discrete studies. However, until …

Dust entrainment, transport over vast distances and subsequent deposition is a fundamental
part of the Earth system. Yet the role and importance of dust has been underappreciated …