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Long-range PM_2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires

A modelling study based on satellite observations, machine learning and a chemical transport model quantifies the global and regional exposure to particulate-matter pollution and the human health impacts related to the 2023 Canadian wildfires.

Qiang Zhang
Yuexuanzi Wang
Kebin He
ResearchOpen Access10 Sept 2025
Nature

Volume: 645, P: 672-678
Urban meteorology–chemistry coupling in compound heat–ozone extremes

Heatwaves and ozone pollution pose compounded risks to urban health, but limited vertical insights have hindered understanding of their interaction. Using airship observations and model simulations, this study reveals that heatwaves worsen urban ozone pollution by vertically redistributing precursors, while emission reductions could mitigate heat–ozone extremes in a warming climate.

Xueyu Zhou
Mengmeng Li
Aijun Ding
ResearchOpen Access15 Aug 2025
Nature Cities

Volume: 2, P: 847-856
Author Correction: Programmable RNA editing with compact CRISPR–Cas13 systems from uncultivated microbes

Chunlong Xu
Yingsi Zhou
Hui Yang
Amendments and Corrections02 Jan 2022
Nature Methods

Volume: 19, P: 255
Inequality of household consumption and air pollution-related deaths in China

Considering air pollution-induced health risks from a consumption perspective is important. Here the authors evaluated the premature deaths resulting from household consumption across 30 Chinese provinces and find that rural households can cause a similar number of pollution-induced deaths as urban households despite a larger and wealthier urban population, due to the combustion of solid fuel.

Hongyan Zhao
Guannan Geng
Kebin He
ResearchOpen Access25 Sept 2019
Nature Communications

Volume: 10, P: 1-9
Global climate forcing of aerosols embodied in international trade

International trade links regions of production and consumption. Analyses with a multiregional input–output model based on trade data reveal that much of East Asia’s aerosol radiative forcing is tied to consumption in developed countries.

Jintai Lin
Dan Tong
Dabo Guan
Research05 Sept 2016
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 9, P: 790-794
Widespread 2013-2020 decreases and reduction challenges of organic aerosol in China

Clean air actions affect air quality greatly. Here, the authors report widespread decreases in organic aerosol (OA) in China from 2013 to 2020 with primary OA decreasing more than secondary OA. However, further reductions are challenging.

Qi Chen
Ruqian Miao
Tong Zhu
ResearchOpen Access25 May 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-8
Timing of unsaturated fat intake improves insulin sensitivity via the gut microbiota-bile acid axis: a randomized controlled trial

Here, Ying Li et al. present the results of a randomized controlled feeding trial in prediabetes participants, finding that advancing timing of unsaturated fat (USFA) intake improves insulin sensitivity through the gut microbiome and bile acid metabolism, regardless of USFA type.

Chunbo Wei
Xiaoqing Xu
Ying Li
ResearchOpen Access06 May 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-16
Programmable RNA editing with compact CRISPR–Cas13 systems from uncultivated microbes

This work describes the identification of Cas13 proteins from two families by mining public metagenomic data. The newly identified Cas13X.1 shows efficient target knockdown and can be used to degrade SARS-CoV-2 and H1N1 genomes. In addition, the truncated Cas13X.1 offers an advantage in generating mini-RNA base editors.

Chunlong Xu
Yingsi Zhou
Hui Yang
Research03 May 2021
Nature Methods

Volume: 18, P: 499-506
Open fire exposure increases the risk of pregnancy loss in South Asia

Open fires can increase heavy exposure to hazardous particulate matters, and thus harm human health, particularly among the vulnerable individuals, such as pregnant women. Here, the authors show an association between maternal exposure to fire smoke and increased risk of pregnancy loss in South Asia.

Tao Xue
Guannan Geng
Tong Zhu
ResearchOpen Access28 May 2021
Nature Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-10
Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation depend on strategic power plant retirements and pollution controls

Climate mitigation policies often provide health co-benefits. Analysis of individual power plants under future climate–energy policy scenarios shows reducing air pollution-related deaths does not automatically align with emission reduction policies and that policy design needs to consider public health.

Dan Tong
Guannan Geng
Steven J. Davis
Research29 Nov 2021
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 11, P: 1077-1083
Drivers of PM_2.5 air pollution deaths in China 2002–2017

Emission controls avoided some 870,000 deaths in China between 2002 and 2017 but further air quality improvements need energy-climate policies and changed economic structure, according to index decomposition analysis and chemical transport models.

Guannan Geng
Yixuan Zheng
Steven J. Davis
Research26 Jul 2021
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 14, P: 645-650
Recovery of ecosystem productivity in China due to the Clean Air Action plan

A quantitative assessment suggests that the reductions in aerosol and ozone levels from 2014 to 2020 due to the clean air action in China led to a substantial increase in the national net primary productivity due to the weakened aerosol climatic effects, alleviated ozone vegetation damage and enhanced light availability.

Hao Zhou
Xu Yue
Hong Liao
Research15 Nov 2024
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 17, P: 1233-1239
Climate change impacts on the extreme power shortage events of wind-solar supply systems worldwide during 1980–2022

The reliability of variable wind-solar systems may be strongly affected by climate change. This study uncovers uptrends in extreme power shortages during 1980–2022 due to increasing very low wind speed and solar radiation.

Dongsheng Zheng
Dan Tong
Qiang Zhang
ResearchOpen Access18 Jun 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-11
Efficacy of China’s clean air actions to tackle PM_2.5 pollution between 2013 and 2020

China’s second phase of clean air actions proved less effective than the first, highlighting the need to adapt and update policies to enable continued progress, according to an assessment combining chemical transport modelling and emission inventories.

Guannan Geng
Yuxi Liu
Qiang Zhang
Research18 Sept 2024
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 17, P: 987-994
Long noncoding RNA NRON contributes to HIV-1 latency by specifically inducing tat protein degradation

Long noncoding RNAs have a wide range of physiological functions, though their role in viral infection and latency is poorly understood. Here the authors show a lncRNA NRON can induce degradation of HIV-1 protein Tat, potentially contributing to latent infection.

Jun Li
Cancan Chen
Hui Zhang
ResearchOpen Access13 Jun 2016
Nature Communications

Volume: 7, P: 1-10
Co-benefits of CO₂ emission reduction from China’s clean air actions between 2013-2020

China’s clean air action stimulated a net accumulative reduction of 2.43 Gt CO₂ emission from 2013-2020. Phase-out and upgrades of outdated, polluting, and inefficient combustion facilities have promoted the transition of the country’s energy system.

Qinren Shi
Bo Zheng
Qiang Zhang
ResearchOpen Access27 Aug 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-8
Associations between satellite-derived estimates of PM2.5 species concentrations for organic carbon, elemental carbon, nitrate, and sulfate with birth weight and preterm birth in California during 2005–2014

Patrick S. Reuther
Guannan Geng
Matthew J. Strickland
Research25 Apr 2024
Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology

Volume: 35, P: 233-241
Notable uncertainties in near real-time CO₂ emission estimates in China

Hanwen Hu
Guannan Geng
Kebin He
ResearchOpen Access17 Mar 2025
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Volume: 8, P: 1-10
Economic footprint of California wildfires in 2018

The impacts of wildfires in the western United States have been increasing for decades. Combining physical, epidemiological and economic models, this study finds that the economic damage of California wildfires in 2018 was roughly 1.5% of California’s annual gross domestic product.

Daoping Wang
Dabo Guan
Steven J. Davis
Research07 Dec 2020
Nature Sustainability

Volume: 4, P: 252-260
Transboundary health impacts of transported global air pollution and international trade

The transboundary health impacts of air pollution associated with the international trade of goods and services are greater than those associated with long-distance atmospheric pollutant transport.

Qiang Zhang
Xujia Jiang
Dabo Guan
Research30 Mar 2017
Nature

Volume: 543, P: 705-709
Targeted emission reductions from global super-polluting power plant units

After developing a unit-based air pollutants emission inventory of more than 30,000 fossil fuel power plants operating worldwide in 2010, the authors find that retiring or implementing controlling measures on coal-fired power plants, representing 0.8% of global capacity, could reduce PM_2.5 emissions from coal-fired plants by up to 14.2%.

Dan Tong
Qiang Zhang
Kebin He
Research08 Jan 2018
Nature Sustainability

Volume: 1, P: 59-68
Develop an efficient and specific AAV-based labeling system for Muller glia in mice

Yanxia Gao
Kailun Fang
Hui Yang
ResearchOpen Access27 Dec 2022
Scientific Reports

Volume: 12, P: 1-9
The degradation of EZH2 mediated by lncRNA ANCR attenuated the invasion and metastasis of breast cancer

Zhongwei Li
Pingfu Hou
Jun Lu
Research07 Oct 2016
Cell Death & Differentiation

Volume: 24, P: 59-71

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