Tomorrow's Earth
New this month: How can we achieve immediate relief from the effects of climate change; can smartphone technology improve farming; what changes to social structures, economics, and resource use are necessary to prevent the collapse of global ecosystems; and what ideas abound about the future of food?
What is the Tomorrow’s Earth series?
As the human population has grown over recent decades, our profound impact on the entire planet has become starkly apparent. Human activities have led to a warming climate, massive landscape conversion, pollution, depletion of natural resources, defaunation, and loss of biodiversity. Today, global human society stands at a decision point. Business-as-usual approaches are likely to lead to catastrophic changes to our planet and our health and well-being. In this special collection, we explore some of the possible routes to a more sustainable future.
Editors: Caroline Ash, Julia Fahrenkamp-Uppenbrink, Sacha Vignieri
Contributing editors: Gemma Alderton, Lisa Chong, Marc Lavine, Jennifer Sills, H. Jesse Smith, Valerie B. Thompson, Brad Wible, Jake Yeston
For additional recent Science collections, see here.
10.1126/science.aau4805
Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for profound change
S. Díaz et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 13-December-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aax3100
Realizing the potential of digital development: The case of agricultural advice
R. Fabregas et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 13-December-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aay3038
Measuring the success of climate change adaptation and mitigation in terrestrial ecosystems
M. D. Morecroft et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 13-December-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw9256
Unraveling the claims for (and against) green growth
Tim Jackson and Peter Victor
Journal Article | Science Date: 22-November-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aay0749
Energy storage: The future enabled by nanomaterials
Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Francesco Bonaccorso, Xinliang Feng, Yi Cui, Yury Gogotsi
Journal Article | Science Date: 22-November-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aan8285
Vulnerability of the industrialized microbiota
Justin L. Sonnenburg and Erica D. Sonnenburg
Journal Article | Science Date: 25-October-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw9255
Grand challenges in the science of wind energy
Paul Veers et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 25-October-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau2027
The Coming Electric Vehicle Transformation
George Crabtree
Journal Article | Science Date: 25-October-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aax0704
The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C
O. Hoegh-Guldberg et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 20-September-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw6974
Cleaning up plastic pollution in Africa
J. M. Garcia et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 20-September-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aax3539
Linkages between flow regime, biota, and ecosystem processes: Implications for river restoration
M. Palmer and A. Ruhi
Journal Article | Science Date: 20-September-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw2087
The case for strategic and managed climate retreat
A.R. Siders, Miyuki Hino, Katharine J. Mach
Journal Article | Science Date: 23-August-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aax8346
Reducing tropical deforestation
Frances Seymour and Nancy Harris
Journal Article | Science Date: 23-August-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aax8546
The case for a supply-side climate treaty
Geir B. Asheim et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 26-July-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aax5011
Keeping air pollution policies on track
Gary Fuller
Journal Article | Science Date: 26-July-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw9865
A global surveillance system for crop diseases
M. Carvajal-Yepes et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 28-June-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw1572
Sharing the land between nature and people
Erle Ellis
Journal Article | Science Date: 28-June-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aax2608
Toward a world that values insects
Yves Basset and Greg P. A. Lamarre
Journal Article | Science Date: 28-June-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw7071
A call to climate action
Jonathan Overpeck, Cecilia Conde
Journal Article | Science Date: 31-May-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aay1525
Terawatt-scale photovoltaics: Transform global energy
N. M. Haegel et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 31-May-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw1845
Promises and perils of the Paris Agreement
M. G. Lawrence and S. Schäfer
Journal Article | Science Date: 31-May-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw4602
NextGen Voices: Science-inspired sustainable behavior
Jennifer Sills
Journal Article | Science Date: 31-May-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aax8945
What would it take for renewably-powered electrosynthesis to displace petrochemical processes?
P. De Luna et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 26-Apr-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav3506
Rewilding complex ecosystems
A. Perino et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 26-Apr-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav5570
Internet of things – energy boon or bane?
E. Hittinger and P. Jaramillo
Journal Article | Science Date: 26-Apr-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau8825
Review of: The Age of Living Machines
A. Woolfson et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 26-Apr-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw9433
Concerns of young protesters are justified
G. Hagedorn et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 12-April-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aax3807
Natural, incidental, and engineered nanomaterials and their impacts on the Earth system
M. F. Hochella et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 29-Mar-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau8299
New plant breeding technologies for food security
S. Shan-eAli Zaidi et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 29-Mar-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav6316
A Rights Revolution for Nature
G. Chapron et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 29-Mar-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav5601
AI for the M.D
P. Szolovits
Journal Article | Science Date: 29-Mar-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw4041
Strengthened scientific support for the Endangerment Finding for atmospheric greenhouse gases
P. B. Duffy et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 08-Feb-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aat5982
Nitrogen in the environment
C. Stevens
Journal Article | Science Date: 08-Feb-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav8215
Ocean recoveries for tomorrow’s Earth: Hitting a moving target
K. E. Ingeman, J. F. Samhouri, A. C. Stier
Journal Article | Science Date: 25-Jan-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav1004
Advances in weather prediction
R. B. Alley, K. A. Emanuel, F. Zhang
Journal Article | Science Date: 25-Jan-2019 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav7274
Choices in the climate commons
S. Barrett
Journal Article | Science Date: 14-Dec-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw2116
Tragedy revisited
R. Boyd et al.
Journal Article | Science Date: 14-Dec-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw0911
Reimagining the human
E. Crist
Journal Article | Science Date: 14-Dec-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau6026
How behavioral science can help conservation
J. Cinner
Journal Article | Science Date: 23-Nov-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau2068
Intensification for redesigned and sustainable agricultural systems
J. Pretty
Journal Article | Science Date: 23-Nov-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav0294
Nurturing connections to the environment
Editor: Jennifer Sills
Journal Article | Science Date: 23-Nov-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav9402
Landscapes that work for biodiversity and people
C. Kremen and A. M. Merenlender
Journal Article | Science Date: 19-Oct-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau6020
Well-being in metrics and policy
C. Graham, K. Laffan, and S. Pinto
Journal Article | Science Date: 19-Oct-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau5234
Space for nature
Jonathan Baillie, Ya-Ping Zhang
Journal Article | Science Date: 13-Sep-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau1397
Gaia 2.0
Timothy M. Lenton, Bruno Latour
Journal Article | Science Date: 13-Sep-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau0427
Looking ahead
Andrew Robinson
Journal Article | Science Date: 13-Sep-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau9686
The promise and peril of universal health care
David E. Bloom, Alexander Khoury, Ramnath Subbaraman
Journal Article | Science Date: 23-Aug-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aat9644
The paradox of irrigation efficiency
R. Q. Grafton, J. Williams, C. J. Perry, F. Molle, C. Ringler, P. Steduto, B. Udall, S. A. Wheeler, Y. Wang, D. Garrick, R. G. Allen
Journal Article | Science Date: 23-Aug-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aat9314
How AI can be a force for good
Mariarosaria Taddeo, Luciano Floridi
Journal Article | Science Date: 23-Aug-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aat5991
Meat consumption, health, and the environment
H. Charles J. Godfray, Paul Aveyard, Tara Garnett, Jim W. Hall, Timothy J. Key, Jamie Lorimer, Ray T. Pierrehumbert, Peter Scarborough, Marco Springmann, Susan A. Jebb
Journal Article | Science Date: 19-Jul-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aam5324
A path to clean water
Klaus Kümmerer, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Oliver Olsson, Despo Fatta-Kassinos
Journal Article | Science Date: 19-Jul-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau2405
Regulate to reduce chemical mixture risk
Andreas Kortenkamp, Michael Faust
Journal Article | Science Date: 19-Jul-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aat9219
Getting it right on GMOs
José R. Dinneny
Journal Article | Science Date: 28-Jun-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aat8772
Education for the future
Barbara Pietrzak, Adrian Ward, Man Kit Cheung, Beat A. Schwendimann, Gurkan Mollaoglu, Michael Tran Duong, Nils Ulltveit-Moe, Veerasathpurush Allareddy, Ken Dutton-Regester, Jian Zhang, Matthew A. Scult, Saima Naz, Poonam C. Singh, Hong Young Yan, Kyle Isaacson, Allison F. Dennis, Eyad Ibrahim Al-Humaidan, Felicia Rounds Beardsley, Cody Lo, Prashant Sood, Tyler Jones, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Basant A. Ali, Kun-Hsing Yu, Patrick Kobina Arthur, Brijesh Kumar, Alexander Chen, Falko Buschke, Lubomír Cingl, Syed Shan-e-Ali Zaidi, Anthony Peter O'Mullane, Vinet Coetzee, Nikos Konstantinides
Journal Article | Science Date: 28-Jun-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau3877
Toward a sustainable materials system
Elsa A. Olivetti, Jonathan M. Cullen
Journal Article | Science Date: 28-Jun-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aat6821
Net-zero emissions energy systems
Steven J. Davis, Nathan S. Lewis, Matthew Shaner, Sonia Aggarwal, Doug Arent, Inês L. Azevedo, Sally M. Benson, Thomas Bradley, Jack Brouwer, Yet-Ming Chiang, Christopher T. M. Clack, Armond Cohen, Stephen Doig, Jae Edmonds, Paul Fennell, Christopher B. Field, Bryan Hannegan, Bri-Mathias Hodge, Martin I. Hoffert, Eric Ingersoll, Paulina Jaramillo, Klaus S. Lackner, Katharine J. Mach, Michael Mastrandrea, Joan Ogden, Per F. Peterson, Daniel L. Sanchez, Daniel Sperling, Joseph Stagner, Jessika E. Trancik, Chi-Jen Yang, Ken Caldeira
Journal Article | Science Date: 28-Jun-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aas9793
Tomorrow's Earth
Jeremy Berg
Journal Article | Science Date: 28-Jun-2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau5515
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