Research news | 2020-03-26

Past insights can shape future food systems

Three major innovations helped shape the global food system in the past. How can we learn from them to develop a more sustainable system for the future?

Research news | 2020-01-29

Time is of essence when restoring ecosystems

How social interventions become opportunities for accelerated policy implementation

Research news | 2019-01-14

A friend and a foe

Amid global environmental change, water becomes both the victim and the instigator for irreversible damage

Research news | 2018-12-20

Contagious collapses

New study reveals hidden links and potential domino effects between tipping points in climate, ecosystems and societies

Research news | 2018-09-02

Encroachment

Increase in woody plants are increasingly affecting the African savannahs, reducing grazing for cattle and affecting mobility

Research news | 2018-02-20

Understanding collapse

Fear of collapse lurks behind many discussions about the future, but much research on it is scattered and incoherent

Research news | 2016-11-25

Dealing with Arctic tipping points

Amid rapid change, new Arctic Resilience Report identifies 19 tipping points and need to prepare for surprises

Research news | 2016-08-29

Too intense?

Why global agriculture must become key contributor to sustainable development rather than largest driver of environmental change

Research news | 2016-02-25

A big change, yet no change at all?

Even in a reported Baltic Sea regime shift, not all parts of the system are affected

Research news | 2015-08-26

Quite a lot of that human touch

How humans matter for ecological regime shifts

Research news | 2015-08-13

Untangling ecological collapse

First Regime Shift Database helps researchers assess main global-level drivers of unwanted ecological transitions

Research news | 2014-12-17

An empire of fisheries    

How the rise and fall of the Soviet Union contributed to marine regime shifts and a transition in governance

Research news | 2014-05-05

Introducing the Regime Shifts Database

New online resource with detailed examples of large persistent changes in nature

Research news | 2014-01-27

Back to the future

Unrealistic to think coral reefs can return to pristine conditions, more pragmatic management approaches needed

Research news | 2013-11-06

Avoid tipping over

Human activity could give rise to planetary-scale ecological regime shifts

Research news | 2013-09-11

Back from the brink

Shocks and natural variability can help restore coral cover on degraded reefs

Research news | 2013-08-23

Human nature

Better understanding of the coupling between human behavior and ecological dynamics key to predicting ecological regime shifts

Research news | 2013-05-31

Pushed to the limits

Changes in the Arctic will affect ecosystems, communities and industrial infrastructure