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Destabilising Tipping Elements (Potsdam Inst. Press Release on Nature Paywalled Paper):

Nature (Paywall): Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements

PIK Press Release: Four major Earth system components are losing stability

Justice & Int'l Migration (Nature):

Evidence of climate & economic drivers affecting migration in an unequal & warming world

Renewed Doughnut Framework for Human Needs & Planetary Integrity (Nature):

Doughnut of social & planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance

Nature Editorial: End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity

Planetary Boundary Report (Potsdam Inst. for Climate Impact Research):

Planetary Health Check 2025 (Download 144 pg)

Mongabay: Interview with Johan Rockström

Amazonian Community Territorial Mgmt (Nature):

Community-based management expands ecosystem protection footprint in Amazonian forests

Tipping Point Dynamics (ESD Ideas):

Climate tipping is not instantaneous – the duration of an overshoot matters

Africa > Growing Heatwaves & Heat Stress (Societal Impacts):

The societal impact of heatwave intensification & heat stress on African Urban populations

New Indigenous Book (Canadian Scholars Pub.):

Indigenous Insights for Planetary Health & Sustainable Food Systems: Learning from International Case Studies

Advocating for Indigenous Knowledge (Nature Commentary):

‘Communities already have the solutions’: why I advocate for Indigenous knowledge

New Book by Above Author (Penquin): Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Roots During Climate Displacement

British Columbia > Wildfire Recovery & Indigenous Food Sovereignty (Ecol. Evol.):

From Science to Sovereignty: Indigenizing Western Scientific Approaches for Culturally Appropriate Wildfire Recovery

Indigenous Fire Stewardship (PNAS):

Indigenous fire stewardship shaped North American Great Lakes forests

Planetary Boundaries & Biospheric Risk (One Earth):

Breaching planetary boundaries: Over half of global land area suffers critical losses in functional biosphere integrity

PIK News: 60% of the world’s land area is in a precarious state

Indigenous Knowledge & Nature-Based Solutions (PNAS):

Indigenous critiques & recommendations for reclaiming nature-based solutions

Planetary Boundaries, Land-Based Mitigation & Food Systems (Rockström, et al., Lancet Planetary Health):

Planetary boundaries under a land-based climate change mitigation scenario with a food demand transformation: a modelling study

Risks to Arctic Food Webs & Alaska Native Food Security (Nature):

Bowhead whale faeces link increasing algal toxins in the Arctic to ocean warming

S America > Indigenous & Community Sustainable Pathways (Nature):

Indigenous & Local Communities’ initiatives have transformative potential to guide shifts toward sustainability in South America

Australia > Indigenous Landscape Burning (Global Change Biology):

Plant Responses to a Re-emergence of Cultural Burning in Long-Unburnt, Threatened Temperate Woodlands

Canada > Fisheries Mgmt & Indigenous Knowledge (Fish & Fisheries):

Inclusivity of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Fisheries Management

Planetary Boundary Thresholds, Lenton, Rockström, et al. (Earth System Governance):

Thresholds of significant harm at global level: The journey of the Earth Commission

AMOC, Amazon Rainforest & Tipping Elements (ERL):

Causal pathway from AMOC to Southern Amazon rainforest indicates stabilising interaction between two climate tipping elements

Co-Creating Indigenous Curriculum (Community Science):

Building Relationships for Meaningful Co-Created Indigenous Climate Education

Indigenous Māori Urban Ecological Restoration (Nature):

Reimagining, reclaiming, & reconnecting Indigenous voices in urbanism: a review of Indigenous approaches for urban ecological restoration

Global Wild Animals at Risk, Ripple, et al. (BioScience):

Climate change threats to Earth's wild animals

Status of Planetary Boundaries, Rockström, et al. (Nature):

Exploring pathways for world development within planetary boundaries

Indigenous Knowledge & Biodiversity Hotspots (Nature):

Simulated biodiversity hotspots from traditional ecological knowledge & Western metrics do not always overlap

Alaska > Research Partnerships that Include Indigenous Communities (Community Science):

Sharing Our Story to Build Our Future: A Case Study of Evaluating a Partnership for Co-Produced Research in Southeast Alaska

Warming Oceans, Trenberth, et al. (J of Climate):

Distinctive Pattern of Global Warming in Ocean Heat Content

Solutions Involving Indigenous Knowledge (Front. Ecol. Environ. Conceptual Paper):

A path to reconciliation between Indigenous & settler–colonial epistemologies

Triggering Tipping Points, Tim Lenton, et al. (ESD):

High probability of triggering climate tipping points under current policies modestly amplified by Amazon dieback & permafrost thaw

New Indigenous Book (Hachette):

The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River & a Way of Life

Declining Great Lakes Indigenous Wild Rice Harvest (Nature):

Climate change contributes to the decline in off-reservation tribal harvest availability in the Great Lakes region

Indigenous Conservation & Traditional Ecological Knowledge / TEK (Nature News):

The future of conservation lies in listening, not just science

US > Indigenous Knowledge, Impacts & Resilience Report (Inst. for Tribal Environmental Professionals):

Status of Tribes & Climate Change Report (Vol. 2, Download 125 Pg)

Vol. 1 (2021, Download 317 Pg)

Carbon Cycle Feedbacks, Rockström, et al. (ERL):

Interplay between climate & carbon cycle feedbacks could substantially enhance future warming

PIK News: Amplified global heating risk due to climate & carbon cycle feedbacks

Using Indigenous & Local Knowledge (Nature Career Feature):

How researchers can work fairly with Indigenous & local knowledge

S Africa > Indigenous Crop Resilience (Nature):

Indigenous farming methods & crop management practices used by local farmers in Madibeng local municipality, South Africa

Indigenous & Holistic Fire Management (Nature Perspective):

Integrated fire management as an adaptation & mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes

Caribou Conservation & Indigenous Observations (Global Change Biology):

The Erosion of Threatened Southern Mountain Caribou Migration

Indigenous Resilience > Gitxsan Nation (Canadian Geographies):

A framework for Indigenous climate resilience: A Gitxsan case study

Arctic Indigenous Food Cultures (Nature Commentary):

Arctic food & energy security at the crossroads

Bioenergy & Planetary Boundaries (Nature):

Multiple planetary boundaries preclude biomass crops for carbon capture & storage outside of agricultural areas

Marine Ecosystem Restoration with Indigenous & Community Involvement (Nature Review):

A framework for just seascape restoration

Indigenous Knowledge & Human-Polar Bear Coexistence (Nature):

Coexistence between people & polar bears supports Indigenous knowledge mobilization in wildlife management & research

Nature's Behind the Paper, “Bears are like family”: Indigenous insights on human-polar bear coexistence

Utilizing Indigenous Knowledge & other Traditional Knowledge re: Adaptation (Nature):

Curating transformation can strengthen adaptation & minimize losses & damages

New Zealand > Indigenous Knowledge on Coastal Change (Camb. Prism., Coast. Futures):

Braiding archaeology, geomorphology & indigenous knowledge to improve the understanding of local-scale coastal change

Indigenous Rights, Big Data & Open Science (Nature):

Governance of Indigenous data in open earth systems science

US > Justice & Indigenous Co-Management (Nature):

From paternalism to self-determination: examining evolving tribal-federal relationships & co-management arrangements through three case studies

Indigenous, Land-Based Knowledge (Book Chapter, Open Access, Springer Nature):

Chapter: Transforming the Planetary Health Crisis Through an Indigenous Land-Based Meta-Narrative

Full Open Access Book: Transforming Global Health Partnerships; Critical Reflections & Visions of Equity at the Research-Practice Interface

Amazonian Ecosystems & Indigenous Knowledge (Science Policy Forum):

Indigenizing conservation science for a sustainable Amazon

Canada > Just & Decolonial Action (Nature):

Shifting & sharing power in urban climate justice work: experiments in transformative learning in Vancouver, Canada

Antarctica & Southern Ocean > Potential Tipping Points (Ambio):

Cascading tipping points of Antarctica & the Southern Ocean

S. America & Africa > Tipping Rainforests (ESD):

Multi-fold increase in rainforest tipping risk beyond 1.5–2 °C warming

Māori Whale Conservation (Frontiers):

How legal personhood & markets can partner to help save the whale

Polar Sea-Ice Tipping Points (Nature):

Optimal control of polar sea-ice near its tipping points

Polar Ice Sheets, Tipping Risks & Cascading Effects (Nature):

Polar ice sheets are decisive contributors to uncertainty in climate tipping projections

Arctic Indigenous-Led Sustainability (Nature):

The benefits of Indigenous-led social science: a mindset for Arctic sustainability

US > Tribal Lands & Clean Energy (Sustainability):

Opportunities & Barriers for Agrivoltaics on Tribal Lands

Canada > Indigenous Peoples & Biocultural Conservation (Conserv. Sci. Pract.):

Cultural keystone species & their role in biocultural conservation

Consumption Patterns & Planetary Boundaries (Nature):

Keeping the global consumption within the planetary boundaries

Hawaiʻi > Indigenous Resilience (2 Frontiers Articles):

Kīpuka Kuleana: restoring relationships to place & strengthening climate adaptation through a community-based land trust

ʻĀina as resilience: mapping community networks & collaborative care in Hawaiʻi

Indigenous Knowledge & Adaptation Planning (Frontiers):

Indigenous knowledge in climate adaptation planning: reflections from initial efforts

New TEK Book (Oregon State U):

Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Planetary Boundaries Update, Rockström, et al. (Nature Review):

Planetary Boundaries guide humanity’s future on Earth

New Climate Extremes Documentary (53 min):

Website

Ripple & Rockström (Context Commentary):

We are near tipping points that will make the climate crisis worse

Our Global Emergency (BioScience):

The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth

Johan Rockström Essay (TIME):

Planet Earth Is in Critical Condition. These are the Steps the World Must Take to Change That

Indigenous Shellfishing & Resiliency (Nature):

Shellfishing, sea levels, & the earliest Native American villages (5000–3800 yrs. BP) of the South Atlantic Coast of the US

Planetary Health Check, Johan Rockström, Et al. (New Report & Website):

Planetary Health Check (Download 97 pg 2024 Report)

Africa > New Earth4All Report:

SDGs for All: Africa (download 68 pg)

A Just & Safe Planet, Johan Rockström, et al. (Lancet):

A just world on a safe planet: a Lancet Planetary Health–Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, & transformations

See Resources Page For More On Earth System / Planetary Boundaries

Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge (Nature Commentary):

No basis for claim that 80% of biodiversity is found in Indigenous territories

Canada > Indigenous Alternatives (Yellowhead Institute):

From Risk to Resilience: Indigenous Alternatives to Climate Risk Assessment in Canada (Download 24 pg)

Johan Rockström TED Talk (July 2024):

The Tipping Points of Climate Change & Where We Stand (18:35 Min)

Tipping Point Early Warnings (ESD):

Tipping point detection & early warnings in climate, ecological, & human systems

Amazon Forest & Indigenous Peoples (Climatic Change):

Climate justice, forests, & Indigenous Peoples: toward an alternative to REDD + for the Amazon

Predicting Tipping Elements (Science):

Uncertainties too large to predict tipping times of major Earth system components from historical data

Tipping Point Risks, Johan Rockström, et al. (Nature):

Achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions critical to limit climate tipping risks

PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Press Release: Tipping risks from overshooting 1.5 °C can be minimised if warming is swiftly reversed

Johan Rockström Interview > Planetary Boundaries (The Great Simplification Podcast, 1 hr 32 min):

June 19, 2024

(See Blog Resources Page For More On Planetary Boundaries)

Arctic Indigenous Food Systems (PNAS):

Indigenous food production in a carbon economy

Planetary Boundaries > Johan Rockström Interview (McKinsey & Co):

Pulling back from the boundaries: An interview with Johan Rockström (26 July 2024)

New Zealand > Reestablishing Indigenous Natural Law (Climate Policy):

An Indigenous climate justice policy analysis tool

US > New Alliance Expanding Tribal-Led Buffalo Restoration (Press Release):

Tribal Buffalo Lifeways Collaboration

ENSO May Be A Tipping Element (GRL):

Is El Niño-Southern Oscillation a Tipping Element in the Climate System?

New Planetary Boundary > Marine Deoxygenation? (Paywalled Nature Perspective):

UC Santa Cruz Press Release: Loss of oxygen in lakes & oceans another sign of Earth systems under strain

Nature (Paywall Perspective): Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary & key regulator of Earth system stability