Human activity is rapidly transforming most of Earth's natural systems. How this transformation is impacting human health, whose health is at greatest risk, and the magnitude of the associated disease burden are relatively new subjects within the field of environmental health. We discuss what is kn...
Human alteration of the nitrogen (N) cycle has produced benefits for health and well-being, but excess N has altered many ecosystems and degraded air and water quality. US regulations mandate protection of the environment in terms that directly connect to ecosystem services. Here, we review the...
Humans can have a major impact on freshwater systems through water overuse. The same waterways that support wildlife and plants also provide municipal water for cities and towns, and when consumption outstrips the natural regeneration of these waterways, it can negatively affect the ecosystem. Reducing...
definitely has an impact. As a result, this indicator is considered important to comprehensively assess thesustainability of energysystems. A value of 1 is assigned to systems that have minimal human health impacts, and a value of 0 is assigned to systems that have high human health impacts....
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Davidson, 31 2012: Impacts of Human Alteration of the Nitrogen Cycle in the US on Radiative Forcing. The 32 role of nitrogen in climate change and the impacts of nitrogen-climate interactions on terrestrial 33 and aquatic ecosystems, agriculture, and human health in the United States: a ...
The MED has been referred to as the Mediterranean Climate Zone, Mediterranean-type ecosystem, and Mediterranean Biome. Here, we subscribe to a definition of the MED, focused on five regions: the Mediterranean Basin, California (portions of Alta and Baja), southwestern and southern Australia, the...
In this review, we comprehensively explore the ability of the host diet to modulate gut bacteria, with the hope that this knowledge will guide our understanding of how dietary choices impact human health through alteration of the gastrointestinal ecosystem (Fig. 1, Table 1). Fig. 1 Impact of ...
In parallel, we computed a proxy indicator of the ecological status of rivers (at the same spatial resolution of pressures), based on the data reported by EU Member States (Supplementary Information Figure S1). The ecological status is an integrative evaluation of aquatic ecosystem health, designed...
also play an active role in ecosystem engineering and niche alteration. Both humans and domesticates benefit from this relationship4,33,34,35,36,37,38. This intergenerational mutualism persists and evolves over time by the generational transmission of the traditional ecological knowledge, progressively ...