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

The researchers reviewed 350 scientific papers and data sources to assess how land use change and land degradation impacts and interacts with seven “land-based” planetary boundaries.

The planetary boundary framework suggests that ... Based on these percentages, we’ve already very likely crossed the land use boundary. The number of trees worldwide has fallen nearly 50% ...

Stuart Pimm, the Doris Duke chair of conservation ecology at Duke University, who co-authored a critical paper about planetary boundaries in 2018, went further. “The measures they use make no ...

On the road to "net zero," governments should use a separate target to control the ramp-up of atmospheric carbon removals, ...

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

As the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) explains, humanity’s burning of fossil fuels and land use ...

The team suggests a set of control variables that can be used together to include plastics pollution in the operational use of the Planetary Boundaries framework. Their impact pathway approach ...

With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources ... takes stock ... The Planetary Boundaries (PB) framework is a pivotal tool for tackling the climate crisis and safeguarding ...

On another worrying note, scientists found the planet is close to breaching a seventh planetary boundary ... biodiversity, land use, nutrient pollution (such as phosphorus and nitrogen) and ...

Seven of nine planetary boundaries are now adversely impacted by unsustainable land use and other land practices, the report finds. Six of those boundaries are already transgressed, having moved ...