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Tipping Points

Scientists Push for More Ambitious Climate Targets

Researchers say a line has been crossed. For systems like coral reefs and ice sheets, the climate is already past safe.

By Bob Berwyn

The Ilulissat Ice fjord in Greenland runs west 25 miles from the Greenland ice sheet to Disko Bay close to Ilulissat town. Credit: Veronique Durruty/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images.

Extreme Rain From Atmospheric Rivers and Ice-Heating Micro-Cracks Are Ominous New Threats to the Greenland Ice Sheet

By Bob Berwyn

Sea ice as seen from NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft in the Antarctic Peninsula region, on Nov. 4, 2017, above Antarctica. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Mathematical Alarms Could Help Predict and Avoid Climate Tipping Points

By Charlie Miller

A forest is incinerated by the Oak Fire near Midpines, northeast of Mariposa, California, on July 23, 2022. - The California wildfire ripped through thousands of acres on July 23 after being sparked a day earlier, as millions of Americans sweltered through scorching heat with already record-setting temperatures due to climb. Credit: David McNew / AFP via Getty Images

Scientists Say It’s ‘Fatally Foolish’ To Not Study Catastrophic Climate Outcomes

By Bob Berwyn

Aerial view showing smoke rising from an illegal fire destroying Amazonia rainforest in Porto Velho, Rondonia state, Brazil, on Sept. 15, 2021. Credit: Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images

Is the Amazon Approaching a Tipping Point? A New Study Shows the Rainforest Growing Less Resilient

By Georgina Gustin

Ice floats near the coast of West Antarctica viewed from a window of a NASA Operation IceBridge airplane on Oct. 27, 2016 in-flight over Antarctica. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

New Research Explores the Costs of Climate Tipping Points, and How They Could Compound One Another

By Bob Berwyn

Greenland ice sheet

Study: Predicting Tipping Points Within Reach

By Lisa Song, SolveClimate News

James Hansen on Climate Tipping Points and Political Leadership

By James Hansen

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