Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring and tracking the stability and resilience ...

Crossing planetary boundaries does not mean the world has reached a disastrous tipping point. Hitting one does not mean “falling off a cliff,” Richardson said. But it is a clear warning signal.

The planetary boundaries framework defines biophysical and biochemical systems that regulate the stability of the Earth's systems. Boundaries mark points where each system diverges significantly from ...

The planetary boundaries framework applies the newest scientific understanding of the functioning of the Earth system to identify a ”safe operating space” for humanity by proposing limits ...

Transgressing one planetary boundary can amplify human impacts on another one. For the first time, an international team of scientists now quantified some of the planetary-scale interactions in ...

At the rate things are going, the Earth in the coming decades could cease to be a “safe operating space” for human beings. That is the conclusion of a new paper published Thursday in th… ...

“The planetary boundaries framework, introduced in 2009, identifies guardrails for humanity’s impacts on the global environment,” explained the study’s lead author Dr. Katherine Richardson ...

The Planetary Boundaries framework is a pivotal tool for tackling the climate crisis and safeguarding humanity’s future on Earth. For the first time, the full story of the Planetary Boundaries ...

On another worrying note, scientists found the planet is close to breaching a seventh planetary boundary: ocean acidification. In its first edition, a report from the Potsdam Institute for Climate ...

"The planetary boundaries framework is not a useful guide for policy or environmental management in any concrete sense, as it does not capture the challenges involved in most of the environmental ...

For decades, environmentalists and many earth scientists have been warning that humans are exceeding the earth's carrying capacity, that our numbers (7 billion and counting) and the way we farm, fish, ...

The Planetary Health Check, launched by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research on Sept. 24, fulfills this role by monitoring all nine planetary boundary processes and providing decision ...