Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring and tracking the stability and resilience of the Earth system.1 The framework quantifies safe boundary levels for ...

As global temperatures keep rising, humanity seems determined to sleepwalk into a world that is becoming increasingly hostile ...

From more frequent wildfires to rising sea levels, climate change is disrupting ecosystems and upending once-stable weather patterns. One particularly alarming consequence of rising global ...

The global destruction of wetlands, which support fisheries, agriculture and flood control, may mean the loss of $39 trillion ...

Trees take centuries to respond to change. But climate change is moving much faster, and forests may not survive the gap.

Climate change is coming… but what on Earth can we do about it? Scientist Dr. Kimberley Miner has written a guide to riding ...

Ahead of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) holding from July 14 to 18, 2025, African civil ...

Since the onset of the Anthropocene, chemical pollution has become a major global threat to biodiversity across all ...

From Mexico City to the Mekong Delta, increasingly severe droughts caused by climate change are laying waste to ecosystems ...

Scientists have long insisted that we can and must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees—and some still do, even as that grim ...

The fading of insects from the world is not immediate. It is a slow and painful unraveling. Starting subtly, we will notice a ...

A major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed direction for the first time in recorded history, in what ...