Water footprint of nations amplified by scarcity in the Belt and Road Initiative.

The growing water scarcity due to international trade poses a serious threat to global sustainability. Given the intensified international trade throughout the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this paper tracks the virtual water trade and water footprint of BRI countries in 2005-2015. By conducting a multi-model assessment, we observe a substantial increase in BRI's water footprint after taking water scarcity into account.

Urchin-like hollow SiO@γ-MnO microparticles for the rapid degradation of organic dyes.

In this paper, using hollow silica microspheres as carriers, we developed a facile one-pot method for the preparation of hollow SiO@MnO composite microparticles. Under a certain proportion of hollow silica microspheres and manganese salt, a novel kind of hollow urchin-like SiO@γ-MnO microparticles was obtained. The structure and morphology of the composite microparticles were characterized by XRD, SEM and TEM.

Local and non-local drivers of consumption-based water use in China during 2007-2015: Perspective of metacoupling.

Increasingly growing consumption-based water use (WU) combined with climate change have exacerbated water stress globally and regionally, yet little is known about how the WU change is affected by metacoupled processes which involve human-nature interactions across space; within and across adjacent and distant places. This study aims to unveil the spatio-temporal pattern of China's WUs during 2007-2015 and its underlying local and non-local drivers. Results show that China's total WU exhibited an upward trend from 386.

How far are we from possible ideal virtual water transfer? Evidence from assessing vulnerability of global virtual water trade.

With the increasing contradiction between water demand and supply in a telecoupled society where nature and human interplay intensively over distance, virtual water trade (VWT) plays an indispensable role in global water use sustainability. There has been little quantitative analysis of global water use sustainability depicting both overall system characteristics and flows between subsystems. In such a context, the extent to which virtual water transfer deviates from possible ideal expectations (i.

Zexie Tang targeting FKBP38/mTOR/SREBPs pathway improves hyperlipidemia.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Zexie Tang (ZXT), only two consists with Alismatis Rhizoma (AR) and Atractylodes macrocephala Rhizoma (AM), a classical Chinese medicine formula from Synopsis of the Golden Chamber with a history of 2000 years. Clinical observation in recent years has found that ZXT has excellent lipid-lowering effect.

Aim Of The Study: To explore the potential mechanism of ZXT ameliorates hyperlipidemia based on FKBP38/mTOR/SREBPs pathway.

Linking ecosystem services and circuit theory to identify ecological security patterns.

The rapid process of urbanization, accompanied by the sharp increase of urban population and expansion of artificial surface, has resulted in the loss of natural ecosystems and the degradation of ecosystem services. Identifying and protecting key places that have high importance for ecological sustainability are great challenges. Ecological security patterns are such an integrated approach to protecting regional ecological sustainability.