We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little
attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that future environmental …

The countryside is changing faster than ever. Fifty years of conservation achievements in the
UK are now being confronted by a new complexion of economic forces that are driving …

A hopeful vision of the future is a world in which both people and nature thrive, but there is
little evidence to support the feasibility of such a vision. We used a global, spatially explicit …

The unfolding crises of mass extinction and climate change call for urgent action in
response. To limit biodiversity losses and avert the worst effects of climate disruption, we …

When this century began, neither human beings nor technology had the power radically to
alter planetary systems. As the century draws to a close, not only do vastly increased human …

A post-capitalist manifesto for conservation Conservation needs a revolution. This is the only
way it can contribute to the drastic transformations needed to come to a truly sustainable …

Background Recent reports on the state of the global environment provide evidence that
humankind is inflicting great damage to the very ecosystems that support human livelihoods …

Abstract In 2017, more than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries signed a second warning
letter to humanity to caution against our continued wholesale destruction of global …

The current massive degradation of habitat and extinction of species is taking place on a
catastrophically short timescale, and their effects will fundamentally reset the future evolution …

Epic tales of existential catastrophe have been written down for thousands of years, and in
Christian traditions were linked to the punishment of humanity for its sins. We are still …