An acceleration in threats from Earth system tipping points, which occur when small changes spark often rapid and irreversible transformations, has set humanity on a disastrous trajectory, a new ...

Humanity is moving “perilously close to the brink” of multiple environmental tipping points that could be disastrous to both people and the environment, United Nations researchers warned in a report ...

The state of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) has been a hot topic among climate scientists in recent ...

Experts are calling for a global effort to identify "positive tipping points" to accelerate the green transition—and have devised a method to find them. A tipping point is a threshold where a small ...

There's a strange anomaly in the North Atlantic, just south of Greenland: A 'cold blob' of ocean and air that's cooling down ...

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 ...

A "tipping point" is a critical moment when an idea, behavior or trend crosses a threshold and gains unstoppable momentum. The term entered our leadership lexicon when Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling ...

"Marten Scheffer’s book, Tipping out of Trouble, will open your mind to how scientific knowledge can be turned into social ...