University of Nebraska–Lincoln's S. Kathleen Lyons is providing a new framework—Earth system engineering—for examining how organisms, including humans, have fundamentally altered ecosystems on a ...

In a new study published in Nature Sustainability an international team of scientists from the Earth Commission, convened by Future Earth, investigates how global biophysical boundaries need to be ...

Earth is a complex system, with myriad interactions and feedbacks among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere, as well as the people, institutions, and technologies that ...

In a new review, scientists warn that this rapidly escalating, human-driven crisis threatens to upend the biosphere. The paper, published June 30 in the journal Limnology and Oceanography, argues that ...

Machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML/AI) techniques have advanced considerably across many domains and applications in recent years, and the field of Earth system science is increasingly ...

When people think about the most important ingredient for life on other planets, they usually talk about water. But there’s another element that makes our existence possible. “We’re carbon-based life ...