It was the famed Austrian geologist Eduard Suess who named the space on Earth that contains life, including human life, the biosphere. In 1875 he wrote: “The plant, whose deep roots plunge into the ...

Such occurrences leave lasting imprints on the landscape that can prime Earth's surface for subsequent events. As part of a ...

In Mel Eslyn's film Biosphere, the last two men on Earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity ... And he's rigged up a closed system of air and water filtration.

Development of Earth system models that accurately reproduce interactions between boundaries, especially Climate and Biosphere Integrity, is an urgent priority.

Building on the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDG), which provide a vision for a sustainable and equitable future, and ESA’s Sustainable Biosphere Initiative, which defines a research agenda for ...

I am an Earth system scientist and educator dedicated to studying the Earth as a complex, interconnected system through an interdisciplinary and holistic approach. My research aims to enhance our ...

Rockström is a research professor in earth system science at University Potsdam, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and co-founder of the Planetary Guardians. The ...