Ice loss in Greenland is already large, irreversible, and greatly accelerated after centuries of near stability. Though a tipping point for future ice loss has already been crossed, the pace of this ...

At some point, melting ice in the North Atlantic—caused by increased global warming—will cause so much freshwater to be ...

The increasingly broad application of the phrase "tipping point" across biogeophysical and social phenomena muddles its ...

The evidence is mounting that vast changes are not only possible, but increasingly likely as the Earth warms. But how close ...

For roughly about 65 million years, the forests of the Amazonian were resilient to changes in the climate. But that is ...

Lenton, the founding director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, was the lead author of the 2008 ...

David Armstrong McKay is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Sussex and the lead author of a 2022 paper that ...

As the name suggests, permafrost was long considered to be permanent. But more recently, researchers have come to realize ...

Thomas Stocker, a professor of Climate and Environmental Physics at the University of Bern, was the lead author of a 2024 ...

David Armstrong McKay is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Sussex and the lead author of a 2022 paper that ...

Negative tipping points for the Earth’s climate system are approaching fast, adding further urgency to climate action. But ...