Nature Climate Change, Published online: 01 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02375-1The authors jointly assess the changes in land and ocean net primary production from 2003 to 2021. They show contrasting trends, with overall planetary increases (0.11 Âą 0.13 PgC yrâ1) driven by terrestrial enhancement and offset by oceanic decline.