Point Prevalence Studies Are Necessary as First Steps in Studying the Epidemiology of Viruses and Other Pathogens Transmitted by Arthropods by Charles H. Calisher

“…However, seasonal conditions fluctuate, annual conditions fluctuate, human impacts alter the environment, and the habitat and ecosystems naturally change. …”
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After the anthropause: Lockdown lessons for more-than-human geographies by Searle, A, Turnbull, J, Lorimer, J

“…There are multiple precursors of anthropause events which have locally altered human impacts on the environment. We document the ways in which the COVID-19 anthropause has brought into focus human–animal relations through an analysis of the practices of scientists, publics, and nonhuman animals themselves. …”

Editorial: What is GLASS? And what prospects does it open for sustainable urban development? by Kuzmin Evgeny, Suvorova Arina, Lavrikova Yulia, Sang Yanfang

“…Modern cities are encountering a large number of challenges from accelerating urbanization and population growth to increasing human impacts on the environment. To solve these challenging problems, an integrated approach is required. …”
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Greening through schooling: understanding the link between education and pro-environmental behavior in the Philippines by Roman Hoffmann, Raya Muttarak

“…Further decomposing the education effects, it is found that education influences behavior mainly by increasing awareness about the anthropogenic causes of climate change, which may consequently affect the perception of self-efficacy in reducing human impacts on the environment. Knowledge and perceptions about climate risks also explain the education effect on pro-environmental behavior, but to a lesser extent.…”
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A Agenda Ambiental na Administração Pública desafios operacionais e estratégicos by Carolina Lopes Araujo, Thomas Ludewigs, Eliane Almeida do Carmo

“…Demands for corporate social and environmental responsibility arise from the recognition of limits on the availability of natural resources and on the capacity of absorption of human impacts by the environment. In order to guide this paradigm shift, the Brazilian Ministry of Environment (MMA) introduced the Environmental Agenda in Public Administration – A3P, a voluntary adoption program. …”
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Spatial arrangement of biogenic reefs alters boundary layer characteristics to increase risk of microplastic bioaccumulation by Hyee Shynn Lim, Alex Fraser, Antony M Knights

“…Microplastics are now synonymous with human impacts on the environment and as a threat to marine organisms. …”
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Promoting systems thinking and pro-environmental policy support through serious games by Pejman Sajjadi, Mahda M. Bagher, Jessica G. Myrick, Joseph G. Guerriero, Timothy S. White, Alexander Klippel, Janet K. Swim

“…For these individuals, the serious game, relative to the static website, increased perceptions of the strength of interconnections across food, energy, and water systems (p < .01) and support for policies that regulated human impacts on the environment (p < .01). Mediation analysis revealed that increases in systems thinking explain increases in policy support. …”
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Climate-Conscious Urban Growth Mitigates Urban Warming: Evidence from Shenzhen, China by Zhou, Yulun, Huang, Bo, Wang, Jionghua, Chen, Bin, Kong, Hui, Norford, Leslie Keith

“…This study provides evidence that spatial planning tools such as the CUGP can help mitigate human impacts on the environment. Meanwhile, the improved SMOLA model could be applied to balance urban development and other environmental consequences such as air pollution.…”
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Mid-late Holocene vegetation history of the Argive Plain (Peloponnese, Greece) as inferred from a pollen record from ancient Lake Lerna. by Cristiano Vignola, Martina Hättestrand, Anton Bonnier, Martin Finné, Adam Izdebski, Christos Katrantsiotis, Katerina Kouli, Georgios C Liakopoulos, Elin Norström, Maria Papadaki, Nichola A Strandberg, Erika Weiberg, Alessia Masi

“…Our results demonstrate a significant degree of human impact on the environments of the Argive Plain throughout the study period. …”
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A major shift in U.S. land development avoids significant losses in forest and agricultural land by Daniel P Bigelow, David J Lewis, Christopher Mihiar

“…Land development, which typically results from the conversion of lands previously in agricultural and forest uses, is one of the most fundamental ways in which humans impact the natural environment. We study the remarkable decline in land development rates across the conterminous United States over the period 2000–2015, which occurred after development rates had grown rapidly over the last two decades of the 20th century. …”
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Analyzing the Quality Parameters of Apples by Spectroscopy from Vis/NIR to NIR Region: A Comprehensive Review by Justyna Grabska, Krzysztof B. Beć, Nami Ueno, Christian W. Huck

“…Apples belong to the world’s most consumed crops and with the current challenges of climate change and human impacts on the environment, maintaining high-quality apple production has become critical. …”
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The Planetary Accounting Framework: a novel, quota-based approach to understanding the impacts of any scale of human activity in the context of the Planetary Boundaries by Kate Meyer, Peter Newman

“…Abstract Background Human impacts on the environment are so great that we are at risk of changing the state of the planet from one that is hospitable to one that is hostile to humanity. …”
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Metabolic engineering to improve production of 3-hydroxypropionic acid from corn-stover hydrolysate in Aspergillus species by Ziyu Dai, Kyle R. Pomraning, Shuang Deng, Joonhoon Kim, Kristen B. Campbell, Ana L. Robles, Beth A. Hofstad, Nathalie Munoz, Yuqian Gao, Teresa Lemmon, Marie S. Swita, Jeremy D. Zucker, Young-Mo Kim, Kristin E. Burnum-Johnson, Jon K. Magnuson

“…Abstract Background Fuels and chemicals derived from non-fossil sources are needed to lessen human impacts on the environment while providing a healthy and growing economy. 3-hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP) is an important chemical building block that can be used for many products. …”
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