It’s not even August and we’ve already used up the Earth’s resources for the year Earth Overshoot Day improved last year because of the pandemic. As the economy opens up, it's moving in the ...

Today is Earth Overshoot Day, the point where scientists say we've used all the ecological resources the planet can produce in 12 months. As consumption grows, that day is getting earlier.

The date – dubbed “Earth Overshoot Day” – marks a tipping point when people have used up “all that ecosystems can regenerate in one year”, according to the Global Footprint Network and ...

Today (1 August) marks the Earth Overshoot Day this year. This handy explainer from edie outlines how Earth Overshoot Day is calculated, why it is important to mark the date, and how we can move the ...

PETER SOMERVILLE reviews Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown, by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton (Verso 2024). Overshoot is a brilliant book in many ways. Andreas Malm and Wim Carton ...

Ecological overshoot is measured using ecological footprint analysis, which assesses humanity’s total demand on nature’s services over a one-year period compared to the capability of biologically ...