Lab News
2024
March - Excerpts of Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary's interview published in The Economist magazine article on Indian foods and diets.
March - Excerpts of Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary's interview published in The Economist magazine article on Indian foods and diets.
2023
January - Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary was among the six global scientists recognized as 'Rising Stars in Environmental Research' by the American Chemical Society's open-access journal ACS Environmental Au. See full announcement here.
March - Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary delivered oral talk titled 'Leveraging data analytics and life cycle assessment tool for informing sustainable agricultural production' at ACS Spring conference held in Indianapolis, USA.
July - Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary delivered oral talk titled 'Projecting the impact of future global population and crop productivity growth on biodiversity by combining economic and ecological models' at the International Congress for Conservation Biology held in Kigali, Rwanda.
January - Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary was among the six global scientists recognized as 'Rising Stars in Environmental Research' by the American Chemical Society's open-access journal ACS Environmental Au. See full announcement here.
March - Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary delivered oral talk titled 'Leveraging data analytics and life cycle assessment tool for informing sustainable agricultural production' at ACS Spring conference held in Indianapolis, USA.
July - Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary delivered oral talk titled 'Projecting the impact of future global population and crop productivity growth on biodiversity by combining economic and ecological models' at the International Congress for Conservation Biology held in Kigali, Rwanda.
2022
December -Check out our latest open-access article published in ACS Environmental Au providing a template for evaluating the environmental impacts of current and future buildings in India. Full text here.
December -Prof. Chaudhary received an Honorable Mention at the 2023 James J. Morgan Early Career Award by the American Chemical Society's journal Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T). Named in honor of the founding Editor-in-Chief of ES&T, this award “recognizes young researchers who received their Ph.D. fewer than 10 years ago and who are leading the field of environmental science and technology in new directions through their creative and new ideas.” Find more about the award from the journal announcement here.
November - Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary delivered a keynote lecture for Food4Climate Pavilion at COP27 of UNFCCC in Egypt on November 17th. The topic of session was Climate action for pandemic prevention: the role of food systems and he gave an overview about the impact of global food consumption on different domains of the environment. His part starts at 4:40. The YouTube video recording is here.
August - Here is our latest article highlighting the global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world's primates from extinction. It was published in reputed journal Science Advances.
July - Check out the proceedings of recently finished 12th National Conference on One Health on YouTube with informative talks on the importance of intersectoral cooperation in the prevention of zoonotic diseases. Prof. Chaudhary's talk (from 3:07:15 to 3:37:00) focused on how climate change and environmental degradation exacerbates the risk of zoonotic disease emergence and how better management of the root causes (wildlife trade, food systems, and habitat/biodiversity loss) is need of the hour to reduce spillover risks. The talk ends with success stories such as that of Malaysia where through a policy of increasing the distance between fruit orchards (used by bats) and pig production farms reduced the risk of Nipah virus transmission.
June - Check out our paper on how dietary change can help countries progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) published in Frontiers journal. By reviewing over 200 past studies, we first summarize the nutritional quality, economic cost, and environmental footprint of current diets of over 150 countries using multiple indicators. Next, we review which shifts in dietary patterns across different world regions can help toward achievement of SDG2 (Zero hunger), SDG3 (Good health and wellbeing), SDG 6 (Clean water and sanitation), SDG13 (Climate action), SDG14 (Life below water), and SDG15 (Life on land). Finally, we briefly discuss how to enable the shift toward sustainable dietary patterns and identify the research and data gaps that need to be filled through future efforts.
May - Our journal article titled 'One health: a new definition for a sustainable and healthy future' got accepted for publication in PLOS Pathogens.
April - Prof. Chaudhary delivered invited lecture at the conference on sustainable agriculture held in person at Purdue University campus, USA.
March - Check out our latest publication in Environmental Research Letters on first ever quantitative analysis of over 70 natural and man-made threats faced by biodiversity in each state and district of India using STAR metric of the IUCN here.
January - See excerpts of Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary's interview published in the Outlook Business magazine in the article titled 'One Health' cure for multiple ills'.
December -Check out our latest open-access article published in ACS Environmental Au providing a template for evaluating the environmental impacts of current and future buildings in India. Full text here.
December -Prof. Chaudhary received an Honorable Mention at the 2023 James J. Morgan Early Career Award by the American Chemical Society's journal Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T). Named in honor of the founding Editor-in-Chief of ES&T, this award “recognizes young researchers who received their Ph.D. fewer than 10 years ago and who are leading the field of environmental science and technology in new directions through their creative and new ideas.” Find more about the award from the journal announcement here.
November - Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary delivered a keynote lecture for Food4Climate Pavilion at COP27 of UNFCCC in Egypt on November 17th. The topic of session was Climate action for pandemic prevention: the role of food systems and he gave an overview about the impact of global food consumption on different domains of the environment. His part starts at 4:40. The YouTube video recording is here.
August - Here is our latest article highlighting the global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world's primates from extinction. It was published in reputed journal Science Advances.
July - Check out the proceedings of recently finished 12th National Conference on One Health on YouTube with informative talks on the importance of intersectoral cooperation in the prevention of zoonotic diseases. Prof. Chaudhary's talk (from 3:07:15 to 3:37:00) focused on how climate change and environmental degradation exacerbates the risk of zoonotic disease emergence and how better management of the root causes (wildlife trade, food systems, and habitat/biodiversity loss) is need of the hour to reduce spillover risks. The talk ends with success stories such as that of Malaysia where through a policy of increasing the distance between fruit orchards (used by bats) and pig production farms reduced the risk of Nipah virus transmission.
June - Check out our paper on how dietary change can help countries progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) published in Frontiers journal. By reviewing over 200 past studies, we first summarize the nutritional quality, economic cost, and environmental footprint of current diets of over 150 countries using multiple indicators. Next, we review which shifts in dietary patterns across different world regions can help toward achievement of SDG2 (Zero hunger), SDG3 (Good health and wellbeing), SDG 6 (Clean water and sanitation), SDG13 (Climate action), SDG14 (Life below water), and SDG15 (Life on land). Finally, we briefly discuss how to enable the shift toward sustainable dietary patterns and identify the research and data gaps that need to be filled through future efforts.
May - Our journal article titled 'One health: a new definition for a sustainable and healthy future' got accepted for publication in PLOS Pathogens.
April - Prof. Chaudhary delivered invited lecture at the conference on sustainable agriculture held in person at Purdue University campus, USA.
March - Check out our latest publication in Environmental Research Letters on first ever quantitative analysis of over 70 natural and man-made threats faced by biodiversity in each state and district of India using STAR metric of the IUCN here.
January - See excerpts of Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary's interview published in the Outlook Business magazine in the article titled 'One Health' cure for multiple ills'.
2021
December - Prof. Chaudhary delivered an oral talk at the 30th International Congress for Conservation Biology virtually. The title of the talk was 'Sub-national assessment of threats to Indian biodiversity'.
December - Excerpts of Prof. Chaudhary's interview published in Nature news article titled 'What humanity should eat to stay healthy and save the planet'. Check out the full article here.
October - Prof. Chaudhary delivered the keynote lecture on Food and Sustainable Development on the occasion of World Food Day virtual event organized by IIT Guwahati.
October - Our latest review article is out in the One Earth journal. It is led by Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre of Germany and is about global agricultural trade and implications for carbon storage, biodiversity, and human nutrition.
October - Check out the latest book published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations of which Prof. Chaudhary was one of the co-author. The book is titled 'Integration of environment and nutrition in life cycle assessment of food items: opportunities and challenges'. Download the book here.
September - Prof. Chaudhary delivered an oral talk at the IUCN World Conservation Congress virtually.
September - Congrats to Ms. Canxi Chen for a successful doctoral degree defense at ETH Zurich. She was supervised by Prof. Chaudhary at IIT Kanpur, India and Prof. Mathys at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Her Ph.D. thesis was titled 'Nutritional combined environmental impact assessment of global food systems'.
September - Prof. Chaudhary is one of the 12 scientists who contributed to a voice piece for the journal One Earth on whether the recently proposed planetary health diet (PHD) is realistic, where are the remaining knowledge gaps and opportunities, and where do we go from here? See the article here.
August - Prof. Chaudhary wrote an opinion (op-ed) piece for The Indian Express titled 'For Health and Planet, Indian Dietary Habits must change'. See the article here.
May - Prof. Chaudhary has been selected as one of the 26 global scientists and only one from India for the One Health High Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP) jointly led by four international organizations - World Health Organization (WHO), World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP). The mandate of the panel is to provide policy relevant scientific assessment on the emergence of health crisis or pandemics arising from the human-animal-ecosystem interface and guide these organizations on One Health related matters.
May - Prof. Chaudhary has been invited as a guest speaker on the occasion of Barclays World Environment Day event to be held on June 3rd to deliver a talk on what behavioral changes can individuals make to transition towards a healthy and environmentally sustainable diet.
May - Prof. Chaudhary has been selected by United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as one of the expert to join the international research group that will provide the best-practice guidance on how to conduct nutritional combined environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) of food products. He joins some 30 other international experts in this task.
April - Prof. Chaudhary in collaboration with student from ETH Zurich derived sustainable diets for each of the 35 Indian states and Union Territories using optimization algorithm that are nutritious as well as environmentally-friendly. The optimistic news is that India's malnutrition problem can be solved without jeopardizing the environment but on average people would need to spend 50% more on their daily diets in order to incorporate healthy food items. See the full paper published in prestigious Cell Press journal One Earth here.
March - The much awaited STAR (species threat abatement and restoration) biodiversity metric that can quantify the contributions that abating anthropogenic threats and restoring lost habitat in specific places offer towards reducing the extinction risk of individual species is finally published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. We were part of a team of over 60 international scientists that worked for over a year to bring this out. See the publication here.
February - Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary was invited by the One Earth journal editor to voice his opinion on how to bring Earth's nitrogen cycle back to balance. See his and the opinions of 10 other experts from around the world here.
January - Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary is one of the 26 international scientists selected as a member of the Early Career Editorial Advisory Board for the American Chemical Society's journal Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T). See the full list and the interview here.
December - Prof. Chaudhary delivered an oral talk at the 30th International Congress for Conservation Biology virtually. The title of the talk was 'Sub-national assessment of threats to Indian biodiversity'.
December - Excerpts of Prof. Chaudhary's interview published in Nature news article titled 'What humanity should eat to stay healthy and save the planet'. Check out the full article here.
October - Prof. Chaudhary delivered the keynote lecture on Food and Sustainable Development on the occasion of World Food Day virtual event organized by IIT Guwahati.
October - Our latest review article is out in the One Earth journal. It is led by Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre of Germany and is about global agricultural trade and implications for carbon storage, biodiversity, and human nutrition.
October - Check out the latest book published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations of which Prof. Chaudhary was one of the co-author. The book is titled 'Integration of environment and nutrition in life cycle assessment of food items: opportunities and challenges'. Download the book here.
September - Prof. Chaudhary delivered an oral talk at the IUCN World Conservation Congress virtually.
September - Congrats to Ms. Canxi Chen for a successful doctoral degree defense at ETH Zurich. She was supervised by Prof. Chaudhary at IIT Kanpur, India and Prof. Mathys at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Her Ph.D. thesis was titled 'Nutritional combined environmental impact assessment of global food systems'.
September - Prof. Chaudhary is one of the 12 scientists who contributed to a voice piece for the journal One Earth on whether the recently proposed planetary health diet (PHD) is realistic, where are the remaining knowledge gaps and opportunities, and where do we go from here? See the article here.
August - Prof. Chaudhary wrote an opinion (op-ed) piece for The Indian Express titled 'For Health and Planet, Indian Dietary Habits must change'. See the article here.
May - Prof. Chaudhary has been selected as one of the 26 global scientists and only one from India for the One Health High Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP) jointly led by four international organizations - World Health Organization (WHO), World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP). The mandate of the panel is to provide policy relevant scientific assessment on the emergence of health crisis or pandemics arising from the human-animal-ecosystem interface and guide these organizations on One Health related matters.
May - Prof. Chaudhary has been invited as a guest speaker on the occasion of Barclays World Environment Day event to be held on June 3rd to deliver a talk on what behavioral changes can individuals make to transition towards a healthy and environmentally sustainable diet.
May - Prof. Chaudhary has been selected by United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as one of the expert to join the international research group that will provide the best-practice guidance on how to conduct nutritional combined environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) of food products. He joins some 30 other international experts in this task.
April - Prof. Chaudhary in collaboration with student from ETH Zurich derived sustainable diets for each of the 35 Indian states and Union Territories using optimization algorithm that are nutritious as well as environmentally-friendly. The optimistic news is that India's malnutrition problem can be solved without jeopardizing the environment but on average people would need to spend 50% more on their daily diets in order to incorporate healthy food items. See the full paper published in prestigious Cell Press journal One Earth here.
March - The much awaited STAR (species threat abatement and restoration) biodiversity metric that can quantify the contributions that abating anthropogenic threats and restoring lost habitat in specific places offer towards reducing the extinction risk of individual species is finally published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. We were part of a team of over 60 international scientists that worked for over a year to bring this out. See the publication here.
February - Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary was invited by the One Earth journal editor to voice his opinion on how to bring Earth's nitrogen cycle back to balance. See his and the opinions of 10 other experts from around the world here.
January - Prof. Abhishek Chaudhary is one of the 26 international scientists selected as a member of the Early Career Editorial Advisory Board for the American Chemical Society's journal Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T). See the full list and the interview here.
2020
October - A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of vegetated buffers to prevent sediment load from agriculture run-offs impairing water quality is now accepted in the journal Ecological Engineering. We conducted this research in collaboration with United States Environmental Protection Agency and Auburn University, USA.
September - Results from a massive international collaboration effort to explore possible scenarios that will bend the curve of global biodiversity loss are finally out in the Nature. Download this latest publication from our lab here.
August - Replacing a portion of beef with lentils in a burger can improve its nutrition and environmental profile. Check out our new results in the article published in the journal Sustainability here.
August - Our new article on a review of socio-economic, demographic and governance factors affecting global primates (Humans' closest living biological relatives) got published in open-access journal PeerJ . Download the full article here.
June - United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has released the guidelines to conduct quantitative assessment of biodiversity impacts of livestock sector based on inputs from 25 international researchers including Dr. Chaudhary. Download the full report here.
June - Paper led by PhD student Ashley Green at ETH Zurich titled Assessing nutritional, health, and environmental sustainability dimensions of agri-food production accepted in the journal Global food security.
April - Ever wondered how much environmental damage or nutrition losses can be avoided if each country stops wasting food. Check out our global analysis published in the journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling here.
March - Dr. Chaudhary is part of multi-institutional study titled "LC-Impact: A regionalized life cycle damage assessment method" accepted for publication in the Journal of Industrial Ecology. Full text here.
February - Dr. Chaudhary is co-author on the paper led by researchers from U.K. titled "How to transition to reduced-meat diets that benefit people and the planet" and published in the journal Science of the total environment.
2019
December - Dr. Chaudhary co-authors a letter led by Helen Harwatt from Harward Law School titled "Scientists call for renewed Paris pledges to transform agriculture." The letter was published in the journal Lancet Planetary Health.
September - Prof. Mathys with contribution from Dr. Chaudhary delivered lecture on challenges, needs and tools for holistic sustainability assessment of global food systems at the 13th International Congress on Engineering and Food (ICEF13), Melbourne, Australia.
July - Dr. Chaudhary delievered oral presentation titled "Identifying Hotspots and Drivers of Biodiversity Loss under Future Global Climate and Socio-economic Scenarios" at 29th International Congress for Conservation Biology held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
June - Check out how expanding global trade and consumption place the world's primates (human's closest biological relatives) at risk of extinction in a study published by Dr. Chaudhary in collaboration with Prof. Estrada and Prof. Garber.
May - Dr. Chaudhary led the paper published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology titled "Country-specific sustainable diets using optimization algorithm."
April - Dr. Chaudhary delivered oral presentation titled "Phylogenetic diversity loss associated with global food production, consumption and trade" at the 4th Global Land Programme Open Science Meeting (GLP OSM) held in Bern, Switzerland.
April - Canxi Chen at ETH Zurich (co-supervised by Dr. Chaudhary) publishes her first paper of PhD on how the sustainability indicators will change under different Swiss dietary scenarios.
March - Excerpts of Dr. Chaudhary's interview with The Weather Channel of The Times of India published online. See full article titled Eat, to Save the Planet here.
January - Dr. Chaudhary is one of the 37 international authors who contributed to the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems led by Prof. Willet from the Harvard Medical School. Read their findings in the article published in the journal The Lancet here.
October - A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of vegetated buffers to prevent sediment load from agriculture run-offs impairing water quality is now accepted in the journal Ecological Engineering. We conducted this research in collaboration with United States Environmental Protection Agency and Auburn University, USA.
September - Results from a massive international collaboration effort to explore possible scenarios that will bend the curve of global biodiversity loss are finally out in the Nature. Download this latest publication from our lab here.
August - Replacing a portion of beef with lentils in a burger can improve its nutrition and environmental profile. Check out our new results in the article published in the journal Sustainability here.
August - Our new article on a review of socio-economic, demographic and governance factors affecting global primates (Humans' closest living biological relatives) got published in open-access journal PeerJ . Download the full article here.
June - United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has released the guidelines to conduct quantitative assessment of biodiversity impacts of livestock sector based on inputs from 25 international researchers including Dr. Chaudhary. Download the full report here.
June - Paper led by PhD student Ashley Green at ETH Zurich titled Assessing nutritional, health, and environmental sustainability dimensions of agri-food production accepted in the journal Global food security.
April - Ever wondered how much environmental damage or nutrition losses can be avoided if each country stops wasting food. Check out our global analysis published in the journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling here.
March - Dr. Chaudhary is part of multi-institutional study titled "LC-Impact: A regionalized life cycle damage assessment method" accepted for publication in the Journal of Industrial Ecology. Full text here.
February - Dr. Chaudhary is co-author on the paper led by researchers from U.K. titled "How to transition to reduced-meat diets that benefit people and the planet" and published in the journal Science of the total environment.
2019
December - Dr. Chaudhary co-authors a letter led by Helen Harwatt from Harward Law School titled "Scientists call for renewed Paris pledges to transform agriculture." The letter was published in the journal Lancet Planetary Health.
September - Prof. Mathys with contribution from Dr. Chaudhary delivered lecture on challenges, needs and tools for holistic sustainability assessment of global food systems at the 13th International Congress on Engineering and Food (ICEF13), Melbourne, Australia.
July - Dr. Chaudhary delievered oral presentation titled "Identifying Hotspots and Drivers of Biodiversity Loss under Future Global Climate and Socio-economic Scenarios" at 29th International Congress for Conservation Biology held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
June - Check out how expanding global trade and consumption place the world's primates (human's closest biological relatives) at risk of extinction in a study published by Dr. Chaudhary in collaboration with Prof. Estrada and Prof. Garber.
May - Dr. Chaudhary led the paper published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology titled "Country-specific sustainable diets using optimization algorithm."
April - Dr. Chaudhary delivered oral presentation titled "Phylogenetic diversity loss associated with global food production, consumption and trade" at the 4th Global Land Programme Open Science Meeting (GLP OSM) held in Bern, Switzerland.
April - Canxi Chen at ETH Zurich (co-supervised by Dr. Chaudhary) publishes her first paper of PhD on how the sustainability indicators will change under different Swiss dietary scenarios.
March - Excerpts of Dr. Chaudhary's interview with The Weather Channel of The Times of India published online. See full article titled Eat, to Save the Planet here.
January - Dr. Chaudhary is one of the 37 international authors who contributed to the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems led by Prof. Willet from the Harvard Medical School. Read their findings in the article published in the journal The Lancet here.