Planetary boundaries outline how far past pre-industrial conditions Earth can get before anthropogenic activity has detrimental effects on the environment. While we have been dangerously close to the ...

Proportion of current geological resource production exceeding production capacity determined by the regional water availability for the top ten geological resources with the largest volume of water ...

A new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology found that chemical pollution has gotten so bad that it could upend the global ecosystems that support humanity. This is ...

We're two-thirds of the way towards an unlivable planet. According to a new study released Wednesday, human activity has now gone past six of nine planetary "boundaries" that are "important for ...

The planetary boundary layer (PBL) is a critical component of the Earth’s atmosphere, governing the exchange of momentum, heat, moisture and pollutants between the surface and the free atmosphere.

The daytime planetary boundary layer (PBL) was examined for the Deriving Information on Surface Conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality (DISCOVER-AQ) ...

Researchers have now published the first estimates of antibiotic and pesticide 'planetary boundaries.' The researchers suggest that if resistance to antibiotics and pesticides goes beyond these ...

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 the ...