Potential climate tip** points pose a growing risk for societies, and policy is calling for
improved anticipation of them. Satellite remote sensing can play a unique role in identifying …

Many saline lakes throughout the world are shrinking due to overexploitation of water in their
drainage basins. Among them are two of the world's largest saline lakes, the USA's Great …

Public concern over environmental issues such as ecosystem degradation is high. However,
restoring coupled human-natural systems requires integration across many science …

In the face of global biodiversity declines, predicting the fate of biological systems is a key
goal in ecology. One popular approach is the search for early warning signals (EWS s) …

Grassland degradation and desertification is a complex process, including both state
conversion (eg, grasslands to deserts) and gradual within‐state change (eg, greenness …

Social-ecological system (SES) resilience involves the large information and complex
relationships of nature, society and economy. To promote multi-disciplinary integration to …

Hydrological connectivity is crucial for the healthy operation of wetland ecosystems.
However, the current design of ecological corridors in wetland biodiversity networks is …

Until the 1970s, disaster risk was perceived as a direct consequence of natural hazards.
Gradually, disaster risk has come to be understood as a compound event, which lies at the …

The widespread, severe negative impacts of human activities on Earth's ecosystems over
the past few decades have highlighted the importance of continuous and up-to-date …

We are in a climate and ecological emergency, where climate change and direct
anthropogenic interference with the biosphere are risking abrupt and/or irreversible changes …