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Connecting Life on Land (SDG 15) with Planetary Justice in the Amazon [PDF]

Contains fulltext : 311989.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Aoki Inoue, C.Y., Isaias Mendes, M.V.
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Non-crop plant beds can improve arthropod diversity including beneficial insects in chemical-free oil palm agroecosystems

Cogent Food & Agriculture
Conventional oil palm plantations, characterized by monocropping practices, are susceptible to pest infestations due to the lack of diversity in crop composition.
Ahmad R. Norhisham, Muhammad Syafiq Yahya, Sharifah Nur Atikah, Syari Jamian, Oliver Bach, Mona McCord, John Howes, Badrul Azhar   +7 more
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Medical ethnobotany

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
This collection on medical ethnobotany focuses on contributions that explore the invaluable potential associated with the ethnobotanical uses of medicinal plants, their phytochemical profiling, safety, and efficacy studies as well as their cultural and ...
Adeyemi O. Aremu, Binsheng Luo, Sakina Mussarat   +2 more
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Silicon isotopic signatures of granitoids support increased weathering of subaerial land 3.7 billion years ago

Communications Earth & Environment
The weathering and erosion of emerged land profoundly influences the Earth system, including the composition of the atmosphere and the type of nutrients delivered to the oceans.
Nicolas D. Greber, Madeleine E. Murphy, Julian-Christopher Storck, Jesse R. Reimink, Nicolas Dauphas, Paul S. Savage   +5 more
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Biochar from invasive weeds for enhanced removal of organic pollutants and pathogens from municipal wastewater

Scientific Reports
Agro-waste management and waste water treatment is one of the major global issues. The present study investigated biochars derived from invasive weeds Calotropis gigantea, Crotalaria burhia, and Tephrosia purpurea for municipal wastewater treatment in ...
Poonam Poonia, Loveena Gaur, Sangeeta Parihar, Raina Jadhav, Vijendra Singh Solanki, Annu, Rustem Zairov, M. H. Fulekar, Virendra Kumar Yadav   +8 more
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Assessing the Status of Sustainable Development Goals in Global Mining Area

Land
Mining is an important industry for the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs), but it results in a significant amount of degraded land worldwide, thereby affecting local social and ecological sustainability. Little is known about the extent
Shurui Zhang, Yan Sun, Yan Zhang, Xinxin Chen, Zhanbin Luo, Fu Chen   +5 more
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Adjunctive electrophysical therapies used in addition to land-based exercise therapy for osteoarthritis of the hip or knee: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open
Objectives: To review evidence for effectiveness of electrophysical therapies (EPTs), used adjunctively with land-based exercise therapy, for hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA), compared with 1) placebo EPTs delivered with land-based exercise therapy or 2 ...
Helen P. French, Joice Cunningham, Rose Galvin, Sania Almousa   +3 more
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Assessing the Relationship Between Production and Land Transformation for Chilean Copper Mines Using Satellite and Operational Data

Resources
Mining may cause devastating environmental impacts through large-scale land transformations. However, mining-induced land transformations are poorly understood relative to a mine’s productivity or life cycle.
Junbin Xiao, Tim T. Werner, Takeshi Komai, K. Matsubae   +3 more
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Impacts of commodity prices and governance on the expansion of tropical agricultural frontiers

Scientific Reports
Deforestation in the tropics remains a significant global challenge linked to carbon emissions and biodiversity loss. Agriculture, forestry, wildfires, and urbanization have been repeatedly identified as main drivers of tropical deforestation ...
Javier Miranda, Wolfgang Britz, Jan Börner   +2 more
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Possible Integration of Soil Information into Land Degradation Analysis for the United Nations (UN) Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Concept: A Case Study of the Contiguous United States of America (USA)

Soil Systems
Soil makes important contributions to the United Nations (UN) Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) concept and targets; however, currently, soil is not integrated into measurable information (e.g., indicators, metrics) to monitor land degradation (LD ...
E. Mikhailova, H. Zurqani, Lili Lin, Zhenbang Hao, C. Post, M. Schlautman, George B. Shepherd   +6 more
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