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Planetary Health Check 2026: seven of nine boundaries outside the safe range
Released on 21 September, the 2026 check says all seven transgressed boundaries are at their highest recorded levels.
Ocean acidification crossed in 2025; stratospheric ozone depletion and global aerosol loading are the two areas that improved over the past decade.
Which seven?
Climate change, biosphere integrity, land-system change, freshwater change, biogeochemical flows, novel entities and ocean acidification. Their interactions can weaken resilience across systems.
What is new this year?
The report focuses on whether heat, drought, fire and degradation are weakening vegetation and soil carbon sinks, and whether some models overestimate their resilience.
How to read seven of nine
These are not national legal limits or forecasts of individual disasters. The global diagnosis combines literature and observations across 13 control variables; some input data predate 2026.
Next check
The assessment is annual, so observations and methods can revise locations and degrees of transgression. Readers should examine the supplement and underlying datasets.
Primary source and independent checks
Planetary Health Check 2026 원 보고서
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