Environment Development and Sustainability

Abstract Birds are among the most threatened vertebrates in Brazil’s Caatinga biome due to habitat loss and hunting; understanding public interest is vital to mobilizing support for conservation. We employed conservation culturomics to quantify the online cultural salience of Caatinga birds, analyzing 127,135 Flickr records for all 548 species (including 27 nationally threatened species) tagged w…

Abstract Decarbonizing temperature-controlled road freight is essential to sustainable food systems but complicated by the added energy demand of refrigeration. We perform a cradle-to-grave life cycle assessment (LCA) of 40—ft refrigerated containers comparing a diesel mechanical refrigerated container (MRC) with a battery-driven lithium refrigerated container (LRC). This study focuses on climate…