The Planetary Boundaries (PB) 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 ...

University of Groningen scientist Klaus Hubacek investigates planetary boundaries. With a global population of eight billion, ...

There is a limit to the amount of consumption the Earth can support, and in 2009, scientists defined nine "planetary boundaries" as indicators of when we have reached that limit. Crossing them may ...

In a research article published in November, an international group of researchers found that plastics pollution is helping to destabilize and threaten all nine planetary boundaries, putting the ...