Resistance to antibiotics and pesticides is rising at alarming rates. Yet, currently there is no global framework to track the threat to human health and crops. Researchers have now published the ...

Water falling from a melting iceberg drifting along the Scoresby Sound Fjord, in Eastern Greenland. Human activity and appetites have weakened Earth's resilience, pushing it far beyond the "safe ...

“Monitoring and governing Earth's stability and resilience is no longer optional – it is an urgent necessity to restore Earth’s balance and stay within safe boundaries,“ says Johan Rockström, director ...

When measured on simple metrics like sanitation, life expectancy, and education, no country on Earth has found a way to guarantee the well-being of its citizens while also staying within planetary ...

First introduced in 2009, the Planetary Boundary (PB) concept distills our view of the planetary crisis into nine categories, only one of which is climate change itself. A new study from the ...

Deforestation in Tongsa, Bhutan, 2013 (Photo by Curt Carnemark / World Bank) WASHINGTON, DC, January 16, 2015 (ENS) – Human activities have “dangerously compromised” four of the nine processes that ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today announced the release of Field Boundaries, the latest add in their suite of ...

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