New insights from 150 years suggest that oceans are at present a 'ticking bomb' that needs to be dealt with quickly.

Scientists had determined that ocean acidification enters this danger zone or crosses this planetary boundary when the amount ...

A team of planetary scientists, ecologists, and marine biologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in ...

Planetary boundaries outline how far past pre-industrial conditions Earth can get before anthropogenic activity has ...

A new assessment of Earth’s life-support systems shows that six out of nine of these crucial processes have crossed their “planetary boundary.” These boundaries are not tipping points—it ...

As the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) explains, humanity’s burning of fossil fuels and land use changes have caused the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ...

The research team wants aquatic deoxygenation to be added to the list of "planetary boundaries", which are thresholds that allow humanity to develop and thrive. A team of scientists first ...

Earth scientists have broken down the major components that make our planet livable into a framework of nine planetary boundaries. Any of these boundaries, including climate and biodiversity, could ...

The planetary boundaries are a baseline for global justice and a reminder that the breaches caused by the wealthiest nations will have the most severe impact on the most vulnerable.

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 ...

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