Earth's biodiversity and human societies face pollution, overconsumption of natural
resources, urbanization, demographic shifts, social and economic inequalities, and habitat …

There are growing calls for conservation frameworks that, rather than breaking the relations
between people and other parts of nature, capture place-based relationships that have …

The environmental crises currently gripping the Earth have been codified in a new proposed
geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This epoch, according to the Anthropocene Working …

Global biodiversity policy is at a crossroads. Recent global assessments of living nature (1,
2) and climate (3) show worsening trends and a rapidly narrowing window for action. The …

Glacier shrinkage and the development of post-glacial ecosystems related to anthropogenic
climate change are some of the fastest ongoing ecosystem shifts, with marked ecological …

Globally, collapse of ecosystems—potentially irreversible change to ecosystem structure,
composition and function—imperils biodiversity, human health and well‐being. We examine …

The Anthropocene is characterized by unparalleled human impact on other species,
potentially ushering in the sixth mass extinction. Yet mitigation efforts remain hampered by …

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were designed to reconcile
environmental protection with socioeconomic development. Here, we compare SDG …

Substantial increases in the pace, scale, and effectiveness of conservation will be required
to abate the ongoing loss of global biodiversity and simultaneous ecological degradation …

The nighttime environment of much of Earth is being changed rapidly by the introduction of
artificial lighting. While data on spatial and temporal variation in the intensity of artificial …