Earth is a complex system, with myriad interactions and feedbacks among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere, as well as the people, institutions, and technologies that ...

In a white paper published by a multidisciplinary team of top scientists in China, Earth system is defined to encompass both internal and external geospheres from solid Earth system through surface ...

Humans are gambling on the very stability of Earth's life support systems, scientists said Wednesday, warning that ocean acidity was yet another key planetary threshold to be breached. A team of ...

Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System The ecological crisis is upon us. It touches everywhere on the planet.

A peer-reviewed paper published in Nature Ecology and Evolution argues that the steady loss of dissolved oxygen across the world’s oceans, lakes, and reservoirs qualifies as a tenth planetary boundary ...

For more than fifty years, Earth observation (EO) programs have delivered comprehensive, large-scale perspectives of our planet, enabling researchers to analyze environmental conditions across regions ...

The Planetary Boundaries Science (PBScience), a new initiative led by PIK director Johan Rockström and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), supported by the Planetary Guardians and ...

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C satellites, creating a new generation of space-based tools to study Earth’s vegetation, oceans and climate systems. The ...