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 ...

Some of the scariest scenarios in climate science come from the concept of tipping points, small events that trigger larger, systemic changes that amplify and build on themselves. Scientists warn that ...

The term tipping point provides a useful way of thinking about that theoretical juncture along any path when the possible becomes the inevitable. We often use the term in connection with climate ...

Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey Steven R. Smith is also Tipping Points Research Impact Fellow at the Global Systems ...

Regardless of the threat of tipping points, climate change is already causing demonstrable and obvious harm around the world, said Robert Kopp, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and ...

Wisconsin put Republican Donald Trump over the top in the Electoral College in 2016. Then it did the same for Democrat Joe Biden four years later. Based on the two most recent elections, Wisconsin is ...

Eyeing the bruises on the knuckles of the police officer arresting me, I took a deep breath and explained why we need to act faster to avoid climate catastrophe. Standing on a traffic island in London ...

The term tipping point provides a useful way of thinking about that theoretical juncture along any path when the possible becomes the inevitable. We often use the term in connection with climate ...

RICHLAND, Wash. —Tip the first tile in a line of dominoes and you’ll set off a chain reaction, one tile falling after another. Cross a tipping point in the climate system and, similarly, you might ...