Yale Environment 360 is an online magazine offering opinion, analysis, reporting, and debate on global environmental issues published by the Yale School of the Environment.
The Growing Human Footprint on Earth, as Seen from Space
Satellite images shared by NASA’s Earth Observatory over the last year show the staggering human footprint.
The Guardian Science Weekly Podcast
Twice a week, the Guardian brings you the latest science and environment news,
Streams of medicines: what’s hiding in the UK’s waterways?
In this episode biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston tells Madeleine Finlay about the problem of chemical pollution in our waterways, and how it could be contributing to what the World Health Organization has described as ‘the silent pandemic’ – antimicrobial resistance.
Earths systems provide three key functions for life on Earth: life support, stability and the ability to absorb and recover from impacts known as resilience. In order for the systems to remain as healthy as possible we have to be careful that the changes we make don’t cause long term damage or weaken these systems by going past key boundaries: These are called the Planetary boundaries.
