Humanity just hit a terrifying new milestone. We had our earliest-ever World Overshoot Day on Aug. 2 — an event that sounds like a holiday, but there’s really nothing to celebrate. Reaching World ...

People are continuing to burn through the planet like we have one to spare, according to research published on Wednesday. In under eight months, humanity has consumed Earth’s annual budget of carbon, ...

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 wrong ...

Our planet has a finite amount of resources, and they only renew so quickly—trees only grow so fast, you can only mine so many metals, there is only so much carbon that can be sequestered by our ...