A new assessment of Earth’s life-support systems shows that six out of nine of these crucial processes have crossed their ...

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.

Just How Much Of The Planet Do We Have Left? The idea of planetary boundaries--the maximum amount of resources we can use--is controversial and debatable. How do we know when we’ve simply ...

The fires in Los Angeles represent a catastrophic failure to anticipate and respond to environmental threats. In the ...

Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to pull the U.S. out of the world’s biggest coordinated effort to tackle ...

Sustainability assessment within planetary boundaries is a critical area of research that seeks to evaluate human activities in relation to the Earth's ecological limits. The concept of planetary ...

A comprehensive new review by leading experts in the sustainability science field, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, is challenging the long-held assumption that economic growth is necessary ...

From natural science to social science, from risks to solutions, from identifying Planetary Boundaries to managing Global Commons: PIK is advancing the frontier of integrated research for global ...

A newly published report explores a framework for global climate risk management, includes contributions from an actuary at ...