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By Bobby Bascomb Scientists have identified nine planetary boundaries that help regulate a livable planet. Human activities have pushed six of those nine critical Earth systems beyond safe limits, ...

Model-based scenarios of Earth’s future suggest that in the next few decades, eight of the nine planetary boundaries — safety limits for environmental pressure — could be crossed. However, targeted ...

“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 ...

A team of planetary scientists, ecologists, and marine biologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in the U.K., has found evidence suggesting that parts of the world's oceans ...

A crowd of people gather near a large poster that shows a speech bubble from planet Earth that reads "Help!!" on the occasion of the first Earth Day conservation awareness celebration, New York City, ...

We need to reimagine global governance. In public health, we now accept that human and planetary wellbeing are inseparable. The climate crisis, biodiversity loss, pollution, pandemics, and inequity ...

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 ...

Sustainability standards and ratings do not generate enough information for businesses to understand their environmental impacts across scales and create mitigation plans to avoid further ...

A wind change increased flames during a planned ignition on the Ross Moore Lake wildfire in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, on Friday, July 28, 2023. A wind change increased flames during a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. AI researcher working with the UN and others to drive social change. We are in the final stretch of Agenda 2030 – and a sobering ...