Gilbert Houngbo is the chair of UN-Water and president of International Fund for Agricultural Development. In this Q&A, he discusses global progress and remaining challenges to achieving clean water for all.
In this Commentary, the increasing risk of pharmaceutical pollution to the world's rivers is discussed. To safeguard clean drinking water, crop irrigation, and biodiversity, the authors call for accellerated global collaboration.
It discussed the fountain scheduling strategies for improving water-use efficiency
This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing by summarize the current understanding of inflammasome biology and the role of different inflammasomes in HIV pathogenesis with a focus on the recently described CARD8 inflammasome.
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Andrew J. Boulton, Maria Elina Bichuette, Kathryn Korbel, Fabio Stoch, Matthew L. Niemiller, Grant C. Hose, Simon Linke, Chapter 23 - Recent concepts and approaches for conserving groundwater biodiversity, Editor(s): Florian Malard, Christian Griebler, Sylvie Rétaux, Groundwater Ecology and Evolution (Second Edition), Academic Press, 2023, Pages 525-550, ISBN 9780128191194
This content aligns with Goal 14: Life under Water by exploring different approaches for conserving groundwater biodiversity.
Enormous amounts of agri-food waste are generated in the open market, especially in sub-Saharan African cities. This work reports the system optimisation of the management of these open-market food wastes for producing bioenergy and value-added materials and also evaluates the environmental impacts of the selected waste processing routes. It supports decision-making on the management of food waste in developing countries furthering SDG 7, 8 &13.
This articles reviews molecular and cellular mechanisms of cell death in neurodegenerative disorders.
This study supports SDG's 9 and 13 through its discussion of the effects of optimizing Municipal Solid Waste management systems by increasing waste collection coverage and implementing diverse streams of waste valorization, causing a decrease of atmospheric pollution.
Studies on the distribution of microplastics in aquatic environments are summarized and environmental and anthropogenic factors affecting microplastic toxicity are reviewed
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Chapter 13 - Applications of LiDAR in Biodiversity Conservation, Ecohydrology, and Ecological Process Modeling of Forest Ecosystems, Editor(s): Qinghua Guo, Yanjun Su, Tianyu Hu, LiDAR Principles, Processing and Applications in Forest Ecology, Academic Press, 2023, Pages 407-442, ISBN 9780128238943
This content aligns with Goal 15: Life on Land by exploring the role and advantages of LiDAR in biodiversity monitoring in forest ecosystems.
