leading to a loss of resilience and rising risks of crossing tipping points," said Levke Caesar, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and one of the lead authors of the ...

Current rates of warming will put the Earth at risk of crossing six "dangerous" climate tipping points, according to a new analysis. Crossing these thresholds would disrupt the Earth's systems ...

Assessing when key climate tipping points may be crossed has been a key area of research for many years ... The proposal was put forward by Switzerland in May 2022 and is currently under consideration ...

The climate has warmed so much that we are already at risk of triggering five global "tipping points" that would have catastrophic effects worldwide and couldn't be reversed easily if at all ...

“This report is the most comprehensive review to date on tipping points in the Earth System,” said Sina Loriani of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, one of the report’s lead ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) introduced this idea of "tipping points" two decades ago. The commentary says that at the time these large-scale shifts were considered likely ...

In some recent years, the Amazon biome released more carbon than it absorbed, and further degradation could make it a permanent shift ...