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GeoHealth is a transdisciplinary, Gold Open Access journal publishing high-quality original research articles and commentaries across the intersections of the Earth and environmental sciences. GeoHealth provides a collaborative home for disseminating and advancing interdisciplinary research that highlights issues at the intersection of the Earth and environmental sciences and health…

Current Biology is a general journal that publishes original research across all areas of biology together with an extensive and varied set of editorial sections. A primary aim of the journal is to foster communication across fields of biology, both by publishing important findings of general interest from diverse fields and through highly accessible editorial articles that explicitly aim to…

The climate crisis is not just changing the planet – it is changing children. As of 2022: 739 million children were exposed to high or extremely high water scarcity 436 million children live in areas of high or extremely high water vulnerability Every region of the world, including high-income countries, faces challenges related to water scarcity and with climate…

Soils contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals through carbon sequestration. By enhancing soil health and fertility, soils can play a crucial role in climate action, land degradation neutrality, and alleviating hunger. The present study provides a spatially explicit report on the state of grassland soils and can be used as a baseline for future work to explore the…

The five themes of the UN 2023 Water Conference were proposed by the Conference co-hosts, The Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Tajikistan, in July 2022 and were agreed on by Member States at the Preparatory Meeting in October 2022. The themes support the five principles of the SDG 6 Global Acceleration Framework. Water for Health: Access to safe…

Land is a key productive asset for rural households. Property rights play a critical role in determining who can own and access this fundamental resource. More than 70 percent of women across 53 developing countries do not own any land. Customary norms confer disproportionately weaker land rights to women, feeding into a cycle that limits their access to credit and other economic opportunities. …