This Editorial discusses the IPCC report that came out in August 2021 and the need for climate change mitigation ahead of COP26
Change the paradigm in medical education: "the climate change generation"
This Personal View supports SDGs 13 and 3 by highlighting the risks and potential benefits and challenges of framing climate change as a human health issue. The paper discusses the need to for climate change academics to become more active in the political sphere in order to effect change.
Facultative polyandry protects females from compromised male fertility caused by heatwave conditions
Animal Behaviour, Volume 178, August 2021
Sperm production and function are vulnerable to heat, and heatwave conditions are forecast to increase as our climate warms, so we examined these effects on female reproduction and mating behaviour in the flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, a promiscuous ectotherm model in which fertility is damaged by environmental warming. We tested whether polyandrous matings, or polyandrous sperm stores, protect females against reduced male fertility caused by heatwave conditions, and whether females flexibly adjust their remating behaviour to enable fertility rescue. We found that polyandry protected females against reduced male fertility: monogamous matings with males exposed to heatwave conditions halved female offspring production, but opportunities to mate with five of these males allowed normal female reproductive output.
Opportunities and challenges toward the electrocatalytic conversion of methane to methanol.
Nature prescription for planetary health
A 24-hour waste audit in the Emergency Department of a suburban community hospital to identify waste content, estimate environmental impact and explore avenues for improvement in waste disposal.
A declaration from regional, national, and international pediatric organizations—together with multidisciplinary child health professionals, child advocates, youth, and families—to address the climate crisis and its adverse effects on child health.
Elsevier,
Clean Energy and Resources Recovery, Biomass Waste Based Biorefineries, Volume 1, 2021, Pages 1-24
This chapter advances SDG 7, 11, and 13 by presenting the different ways valorizing agricultural residues for energy production, as a sustainable alternative to carbon emitting fossil fuels, while simultaneously reducing agricultural waste products.
Elsevier,
Methods in Sustainability Science, Assessment, Prioritization, Improvement, Design and Optimization, 2021, Pages 13-26
This book chapter advances SDG 11 and 13 by explaining how businesses contributed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the early years after the declaration of these Goals at the end of 2015. Samples were taken from Indonesian publicly listed companies that published sustainability reports during the period 2016–2018 after the SDGs adoption.
