#EarthSystem #Anthroposphere: "In 2008, the proportion of people residing in the countryside was falling – for the first time in history – below 50 per cent. Today, just 42 per cent of humanity lives in the countryside."
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#EarthSystem: "This suggests that anthropogenic warming is suppressing part of the natural variability of the #atmosphere."
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#EarthSystem #Penguins: "the speed of #collapse may be accelerating so rapidly that the distinctive #bird – which gets its name from a black line that runs below the beak from cheek to cheek – may need to be classified as an endangered species." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#EarthSystem #Biosphere: "The idea that #ecosystems carry plenty of backup, so if a small number of species become extinct there is little harm, has been greatly overestimated, according to the largest global study of its kind." phys.org/news/2026-10...

#EarthSystem #Cryosphere: "About 12.5 trillion tons (11.3 trillion metric tons) of ice from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979,which is enough frozen water to stack ice 5 feet (1.5 meters) deep across the continental United States" phys.org/news/2026-09...

#EarthSystem #FoodSystems: "Rotting #food #waste is causing up to 10 per cent of total global greenhouse gas #emissions – five times more than the entire aviation sector, the UN’s environment agency warned this week."
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" #Climate policy should not focus solely on trends in average land surface #temperatures. The #ocean—and sea level rise in particular—is actually a better "thermometer of the #EarthSystem" because it is subject to far fewer fluctuations." phys.org/news/2026-10...

#EarthSystem / #Cryosphere: "Swiss #glaciers shrank by 5.5% in the first eight months of 2026...The reduction in ice volume falls just shy of the record set in 2022 and brings the total loss of glacier ice since 2021 to 19.4%." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#EarthSystem #SeaLevelRise: "We found that #Antarctica's ice loss this century is locked in—even if the world limits global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit)"

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#EarthSystem / #SeaLevelRise: "It matters because much of the Wilkes basin sits well below sea level. If all the basin's ice melted, it would raise sea levels 3–4 meters (10–13 feet), while torrents of meltwater would likely disrupt vital ocean currents ...

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Environmental legal frameworks must consider Earth system dynamics
->Nature | More on "Environmental law and Earth systems" at BigEarthData.ai | #Environment #EarthSystem #Science

#EarthSystem: "A record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat was sunk into the world’s seas last year,... The explosive addition of thermal energy, which was almost 40 times greater than all the energy humanity used that year"

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#EarthSystem: "We can view it as a battery, because there is a certain point beyond which it’s not going to continue to overcharge. So #ElNiño is the ocean system discharging a full battery." insideclimatenews.org/news/2909202...

#EarthSystem/#Anthroposphere: "Therefore, while humanity was urbanising at a rate of 1.06 per cent per year between 1950 and 1970, that rate has now dropped to 0.74 per cent, and it will fall to just over 0.6 per cent by 2030." aeon.co/essays/the-p...

#EarthSystem/#Anthroposphere/#Scenarios: "More than 450,000 people are projected to die from the additional heat brought by the super #ElNiño in the next six months, according to estimates by #climate scientists." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#PlanetaryBoundaries: "The idea was introduced in 2009 by a group of #EarthSystem scientists who wanted to know what the planet would say about how it’s doing as we discussed its future." insideclimatenews.org/news/2109202...

#EarthSystem: "Seven breached #PlanetaryBoundaries continue to worsen as record ocean heat, droughts, floods, wildfires and extreme heat reveal an Earth system under strain, according to the latest Planetary #Health Check."
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#EarthSystem/#Feedbacks: "The findings also showed that overall global cloudiness in 2025 was the second-lowest since the start of the satellite record in 1980, 'which means that more sunlight than usual reached #Earth’s surface,' the authors wrote." insideclimatenews.org/news/1008202...

#EarthSystem/#Feedbacks: "Lead author and Spark research scientist Sam Abernethy noted that “what surprised us was the size of the #feedback. 'We found that natural systems could amplify #GlobalWarming by 20-30%,' he said." www.commondreams.org/news/climate...

#EarthSystem/#Feedbacks: "Rising global temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels are transforming the world’s #forests, #wetlands and #tundra to the point they are releasing #emissions that could further worsen global heating by as much as 30%"
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