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 ...

The world is on course to trigger several climate "tipping points" if global government policies stay on their current course, according to a new study April 23. These points of no return are specific ...

New research has found that the world has reached the first of many Earth system tipping points. These will cause catastrophic harm unless humanity takes urgent action. A tipping point is a moment in ...

Broecker, W. S. 1997. “Thermohaline Circulation, the Achilles Heel of Our Climate System: Will Man-Made CO2 Upset the Current Balance?” November 28. Science. 278 ...

The Amazon rainforest is so big that it makes its own climate. As they photosynthesise and transpire, its billions of trees collectively produce enough moisture to form clouds. These, by some ...

Global scientists warn that humanity is on the verge of crossing irreversible climate thresholds, with coral reefs already at their tipping point and polar ice sheets possibly beyond recovery. The ...

We’re not going to be able to stop climate instability and associated dangerous wildfire weather, so we need to adapt.

Earth’s climate is now warming so quickly that one of NASA’s most influential former scientists says the planet has crossed a line it can no longer simply step back from. His warning, delivered nearly ...

A state Supreme Court gives environmental activists an important symbolic victory that will not do much of anything to mitigate the threat of climate change. Last week, in Held v. Montana, the Montana ...

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