Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Climate tipping points are a specter looming over our future — thresholds beyond which the Earth’s systems switch into new states, ...

Pavillion Gardens park in Buxton, northern England. The collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could make weather in the UK and Europe more extreme. (Getty Images) Scientists have ...

Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs under way, as world reaches first tipping point With global warming set to breach 1.5°C, world dangerously close to further catastrophic tipping points ...

One of the most pressing questions facing climate scientists, and the world at large, is whether human-caused global warming could trigger changes in the climate system that will radically reshape the ...

FRANKFURT. In a report released today, October 13, 2025, international climate researchers conclude that the death of numerous tropical coral reefs caused by rising ocean temperatures can now only be ...

The cost of reversing the effects of climate change -- restoring melted polar sea ice, for example -- quickly climbs nearly fourfold soon after a tipping point is crossed, according to new work. Much ...

Large areas of the world could soon become unrecognizable if global temperatures continue to rise. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. From the loss of coral reefs to the ...

Join Maiya May as she explores which climate systems are at their tipping point. Maiya May embarks on a journey across the United States, from the sunny shores of Florida to the icy expanses of Alaska ...

The following conversation with Tim Lenton, the founding director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter and lead author of the 2008 paper that formally introduced the idea of ...

👋 Hi, everybody! Today’s newsletter is all about change — the scary kind, and the good kind, that we need. If you’re familiar with the concept of planetary tipping points, you probably think of them ...