Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for
climate change, such potential futures are poorly understood. Could anthropogenic climate …

The triumph of the Gaia hypothesis was to spot the extraordinary influence of Life on the
Earth.'Life'is the clade including all extant living beings, as distinct from 'life'the class of …

This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the
central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species …

Climate tipping elements are large-scale subsystems of the Earth that may transgress critical
thresholds (tipping points) under ongoing global warming, with substantial impacts on the …

A new release of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Earth System Model version 1.2
(MPI‐ESM1. 2) is presented. The development focused on correcting errors in and …

The books in this collection are devoted to challenging and open problems at the forefront of
modern science, including related philosophical debates. In contrast to typical research …

Terrestrial planets in the habitable zones (HZs) of low-mass stars and cool dwarfs have
received significant scrutiny recently. Transit spectroscopy of such planets with the James …

A planetary atmosphere is the outer gas layer of a planet. Besides its scientific significance
among the first and most accessible planetary layers observed from space, it is closely …

Abstract Resolving Orbital and Climate Keys of Earth and Extraterrestrial Environments with
Dynamics (ROCKE-3D) is a three-dimensional General Circulation Model (GCM) developed …

Climate and agriculture have played an interconnected role in the rise and fall of historical
civilizations. Our modern food system, based on open-environment production and …