Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world's primates from extinction

A Estrada, PA Garber, S Gouveia… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Primates, represented by 521 species, are distributed across 91 countries primarily in the
Neotropic, Afrotropic, and Indo-Malayan realms. Primates inhabit a wide range of habitats …

A comprehensive overview of the utilization of recycled waste materials and technologies in asphalt pavements: Towards environmental and sustainable low-carbon …

NSA Yaro, MH Sutanto, L Baloo, NZ Habib, A Usman… - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Given the prevailing concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, global warming, and the
growing demand for renewable resources, the pavement industry, among others, is actively …

More than one million barriers fragment Europe's rivers

B Belletti, C Garcia de Leaniz, J Jones, S Bizzi… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Rivers support some of Earth's richest biodiversity and provide essential ecosystem services
to society, but they are often fragmented by barriers to free flow. In Europe, attempts to …

Mapping the world's free-flowing rivers

G Grill, B Lehner, M Thieme, B Geenen, D Tickner… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Free-flowing rivers (FFRs) support diverse, complex and dynamic ecosystems globally,
providing important societal and economic services. Infrastructure development threatens …

How climate change and unplanned urban sprawl bring more landslides

U Ozturk, E Bozzolan, EA Holcombe, R Shukla… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
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Global hydro-environmental sub-basin and river reach characteristics at high spatial resolution

S Linke, B Lehner, C Ouellet Dallaire, J Ariwi, G Grill… - Scientific data, 2019 - nature.com
The HydroATLAS database provides a standardized compendium of descriptive hydro-
environmental information for all watersheds and rivers of the world at high spatial …

Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity

L Bromham, R Dinnage, H Skirgård, A Ritchie… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Language diversity is under threat. While each language is subject to specific
social, demographic and political pressures, there may also be common threatening …

Local food crop production can fulfil demand for less than one-third of the population

P Kinnunen, JHA Guillaume, M Taka, P D'odorico… - Nature food, 2020 - nature.com
The distance between the origin and end-point of food supply chains, and the 'localness' of
food systems, are key considerations of many narratives associated with sustainability. Yet …

Behavioral responses of terrestrial mammals to COVID-19 lockdowns

MA Tucker, AM Schipper, TSF Adams, N Attias, T Avgar… - Science, 2023 - science.org
COVID-19 lockdowns in early 2020 reduced human mobility, providing an opportunity to
disentangle its effects on animals from those of landscape modifications. Using GPS data …

A global multi-hazard risk analysis of road and railway infrastructure assets

EE Koks, J Rozenberg, C Zorn, M Tariverdi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Transport infrastructure is exposed to natural hazards all around the world. Here we present
the first global estimates of multi-hazard exposure and risk to road and rail infrastructure …