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Heat stress and the labour force (2024)
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Dasgupta, S., Robinson, E. J. Z., Shayegh, S., Bosello, F., Park, R. J., & Gosling, S. N. (2024). Heat stress and the labour force. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 5, 859-872. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00606-1

Heat stress affects the health of workers through physiological and behavioural responses, in turn, affecting the labour force through impacts on labour supply, labour productivity and labour capacity. In this Review, we explore the extent to which h... Read More about Heat stress and the labour force.

An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism (2024)
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Iafrati, S., & Clare, N. (2024). An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism. Social Policy and Society, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746424000459

This paper argues that commodification of housing plays a key role in the reproduction of social and economic relations and contributes to debates by, firstly, recognising modern slavery as a fundamental intersection of economic and social vulnerabil... Read More about An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism.

Historical geographies of engineering: knowledges, practices, identities (2024)
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Dishington, R. (2024). Historical geographies of engineering: knowledges, practices, identities. Geography Compass, 18(11), Article e70011. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.70011

Drawing on established scholarship in the historical geography of science, the history of technology, and science and technology studies, this paper argues for the significance of an historical geography of engineering. Large-scale and transformative... Read More about Historical geographies of engineering: knowledges, practices, identities.

Gendered environmental pathways to sports injury: insights from retired athletes in the UK high-performance context (2024)
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Coen, S. E., Downie, V., Follett, L., McCaig, S., & Parsons, J. L. (2024). Gendered environmental pathways to sports injury: insights from retired athletes in the UK high-performance context. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 58(24), 1505-1517. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2024-108717

Objective: Women remain at increased risk for some sports injuries, such as anterior cruciate ligament rupture and concussion. This study applied a gendered environmental approach to identify modifiable features of women’s sport environments that may... Read More about Gendered environmental pathways to sports injury: insights from retired athletes in the UK high-performance context.

Carbon Cycle and Circulation Change in the North Pacific Ocean at the Initiation of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation Constrained by Boron-Based Proxies in Diatoms (2024)
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Donald, H. K., Swann, G. E., Rae, J. W., & Foster, G. L. (2024). Carbon Cycle and Circulation Change in the North Pacific Ocean at the Initiation of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation Constrained by Boron-Based Proxies in Diatoms. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 39(11), Article e2024PA004968. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024pa004968

The intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciation (iNHG) at 2.73Ma is associated with a reorganization of the subarctic Pacific Ocean and abrupt drop in opal mass accumulation rates. Uncertainty, however, remains around the extent to which these... Read More about Carbon Cycle and Circulation Change in the North Pacific Ocean at the Initiation of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation Constrained by Boron-Based Proxies in Diatoms.

Prioritising challenges and actions for freshwater conservation in a tropical biodiversity hotspot (2024)
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Zieritz, A., Gibbins, C., Cai, Y., Diba, F., Gan, L. X., Lopes-Lima, M., Mendoza, J. C. E., Morse, J., Ng, T. H., Toh, E. X., Pfeiffer, J., Low, B. W., Marwoto, R., Rahim, K. A. A., Shellman, B., Sulaiman, Z., Tan, Z. W., Wowor, D., Yusuf, N. S., & Yeo, D. C. (2024). Prioritising challenges and actions for freshwater conservation in a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Biological Conservation, 299, Article 110839. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110839

Tropical fresh waters experience one of the highest rates of biodiversity loss globally. Effective tropical freshwater biodiversity conservation requires prioritised and concerted action that is informed by science, but efforts to synthesise the avai... Read More about Prioritising challenges and actions for freshwater conservation in a tropical biodiversity hotspot.

Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia (2024)
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Mariani, M., Wills, A., Herbert, A., Adeleye, M., Florin, S. A., Cadd, H., Connor, S., Kershaw, P., Theuerkauf, M., Stevenson, J., Fletcher, M.-S., Mooney, S., Bowman, D., & Haberle, S. (2024). Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia. Science, 386(6721), 567-573. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn8668

Wildfires in forests globally have become more frequent and intense because of changes in climate and human management. Shrub layer fuels allow fire to spread vertically to forest canopy, creating high-intensity fires. Our research provides a deep-ti... Read More about Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia.

Climate cattle: Metabolic intervention in the Good Anthropocene (2024)
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Searle, A., Turnbull, J., & Oliver, C. (2024). Climate cattle: Metabolic intervention in the Good Anthropocene. Environmental Humanities, 16(3), 784-806. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-11327348

Scientific measurement and prediction tools have highlighted the significant greenhouse gas contributions of farmed animals, particularly dairy and meat cows. Emergent analysis and associated political discourse have refigured narratives of blame for... Read More about Climate cattle: Metabolic intervention in the Good Anthropocene.

Opening up Responsible Research and Innovation: Learning from human and more-than-human knowledge-holders (2024)
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Price, C., Burdett, M., & Bott, T. (2024). Opening up Responsible Research and Innovation: Learning from human and more-than-human knowledge-holders. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 12(1), 91-101. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v12i1.1720

Responsible research and innovation (RRI) is increasingly being implemented by researchers, and in the UK, its use is encouraged by funders such as UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The aim of RRI is to ensure that research and its impacts are opene... Read More about Opening up Responsible Research and Innovation: Learning from human and more-than-human knowledge-holders.

Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction (2024)
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Legg, S. (2025). Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction. Journal of Historical Geography, 87, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.09.005

This paper introduces a virtual special issue that explores how monuments have been contested in the past and how they continue to be so in the present. A survey of papers published in this journal from the 1990s to the early-2000s demonstrates an on... Read More about Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction.

Spatial–Temporal Analysis of Greenness and Its Relationship with Poverty in China (2024)
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Xie, W., Ge, Y., Hamm, N. A. S., Foody, G. M., & Ren, Z. (2024). Spatial–Temporal Analysis of Greenness and Its Relationship with Poverty in China. Remote Sensing, 16(21), Article 3938. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16213938

Ecological environmental protection and poverty alleviation are of great significance for the study of human–land relationship coordination and sustainable development, and they have also been a focus of attention in China in the past few decades. In... Read More about Spatial–Temporal Analysis of Greenness and Its Relationship with Poverty in China.

Riverine connectivity modulates elemental fluxes through a 200- year period of intensive anthropic change in the Magdalena River floodplains, Colombia (2024)
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Salgado, J., Jaramillo-Monroy, C., Link, A., Lopera-Congote, L., Velez, M. I., Gonzalez-Arango, C., Yang, H., Panizzo, V. N., & McGowan, S. (2025). Riverine connectivity modulates elemental fluxes through a 200- year period of intensive anthropic change in the Magdalena River floodplains, Colombia. Water Research, 268(Part A), Article 122633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.122633

Tropical floodplain lakes are increasingly impacted by human activities, yet their pathways of spatial and temporal degradation, particularly under varying hydrological connectivity regimes and climate change, remain poorly understood. This study exa... Read More about Riverine connectivity modulates elemental fluxes through a 200- year period of intensive anthropic change in the Magdalena River floodplains, Colombia.

Past Answers to Present Concerns. The Relevance of the Premodern Past for 21st Century Policy Planners: Comments on the State of the Field (2024)
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Haldon, J., Mordechai, L., Dugmore, A., Eisenberg, M., Endfield, G., Izdebski, A., Jackson, R., Kemp, L., Labuhn, I., McGovern, T., Metcalfe, S., Morrison, K. D., Newfield, T., & Trump, B. (2025). Past Answers to Present Concerns. The Relevance of the Premodern Past for 21st Century Policy Planners: Comments on the State of the Field. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 16(1), Article e923. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.923

How is history relevant to the present, or indeed the future? Governments around the world have used history to inform planning and decision-making in various fields for years, but more recently it has taken on a renewed importance as governments gra... Read More about Past Answers to Present Concerns. The Relevance of the Premodern Past for 21st Century Policy Planners: Comments on the State of the Field.

Diets cannot be sustainable without ensuring the well-being of communities, workers and animals in food value chains (2024)
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Tichenor Blackstone, N., Battaglia, K., Rodríguez-Huerta, E., Bell, B. M., Decker Sparks, J. L., Cash, S. B., Conrad, Z., Nikkhah, A., Jackson, B., Matteson, J., Gao, S., Fuller, K., Zhang, F. F., & Webb, P. (2024). Diets cannot be sustainable without ensuring the well-being of communities, workers and animals in food value chains. Nature Food, 5(10), 818–824. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01048-0

The social dimension of sustainable diets, which addresses the impacts of food value chains on people, animals and communities, is under-represented in the food systems field. We present a definition of the social dimension of sustainable diets, clar... Read More about Diets cannot be sustainable without ensuring the well-being of communities, workers and animals in food value chains.

Engaging faith for a sustainable urban future (2024)
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Ives, C. D., & Baker, C. (2024). Engaging faith for a sustainable urban future. Global Sustainability, 7, Article e45. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2024.32

Global environmental research and policy frameworks have begun to emphasize the importance of culture and multi-sector partnerships for urban sustainability governance. However, there has been little explicit attention paid to religion and belief as... Read More about Engaging faith for a sustainable urban future.

Insecticide exposure can increase burrow network production and alter burrow network structure in soil dwelling insects (Agriotes spp.) (2024)
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Booth, S. W., Kurtz, B., Heer, M. I., Mooney, S. J., & Sturrock, C. J. (2024). Insecticide exposure can increase burrow network production and alter burrow network structure in soil dwelling insects (Agriotes spp.). Pedobiologia, 107, Article 151000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2024.151000

Insecticide treated seeds are commonly used to reduce yield losses from burrowing insect damage such as wireworms. Using temporal X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) of soil-filled bioassays, we aimed to quantify changes in burrow network production and s... Read More about Insecticide exposure can increase burrow network production and alter burrow network structure in soil dwelling insects (Agriotes spp.).

The pace of life for forest trees (2024)
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Bialic-Murphy, L., McElderry, R. M., Esquivel-Muelbert, A., van den Hoogen, J., Zuidema, P. A., Phillips, O. L., de Oliveira, E. A., Loayza, P. A., Alvarez-Davila, E., Alves, L. F., Maia, V. A., Vieira, S. A., Arantes da Silva, L. C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arets, E., Astigarraga, J., Baccaro, F., Baker, T., Banki, O., Barroso, J., …Crowther, T. W. (2024). The pace of life for forest trees. Science, 386(6717), 92-98. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk9616

Tree growth and longevity trade-offs fundamentally shape the terrestrial carbon balance. Yet, we lack a unified understanding of how such trade-offs vary across the world’s forests. By mapping life history traits for a wide range of species across th... Read More about The pace of life for forest trees.

The biogeography of the Amazonian tree flora (2024)
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Luize, B. G., Tuomisto, H., Ekelschot, R., Dexter, K. G., Amaral, I. L., Coelho, L. D. S., Matos, F. D. D. A., Lima Filho, D. D. A., Salomão, R. P., Wittmann, F., Castilho, C. V., Carim, M. D. J. V., Guevara, J. E., Phillips, O. L., Magnusson, W. E., Sabatier, D., Cardenas Revilla, J. D., Molino, J. F., Irume, M. V., Martins, M. P., …ter Steege, H. (2024). The biogeography of the Amazonian tree flora. Communications Biology, 7(1), Article 1240. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06937-5

We describe the geographical variation in tree species composition across Amazonian forests and show how environmental conditions are associated with species turnover. Our analyses are based on 2023 forest inventory plots (1 ha) that provide abundanc... Read More about The biogeography of the Amazonian tree flora.