Marine biodiversity underpins the functioning of ocean ecosystems and the services they provide to humanity. Paradoxically, despite our profound dependency on biodiversity, we are driving its rapid decline and we find ourselves asking the question of whether we, as a society, have the tools to address it. The fate of marine biodiversity thus lies largely…
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Human activities such as agricultural fertilization, fossil fuel combustion, and waste management have led to substantial releases of reactive nitrogen, severely disrupting the global nitrogen cycle (1). Current international climate governance primarily focuses on carbon neutrality (2), whereas the synergistic effects of nitrogen pollution have yet to receive comparable attention, making it imperative to integrate…
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