A peer-reviewed paper published in Nature Ecology and Evolution argues that the steady loss of dissolved oxygen across the world’s oceans, lakes, and reservoirs qualifies as a tenth planetary boundary ...

Understanding Climate Tipping Points Defining Earth’s Critical Thresholds So, what exactly are these "tipping points" everyone’s talking ...

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 ...

Climate tipping points are a specter looming over our future — thresholds beyond which the Earth’s systems switch into new states, often abruptly and irreversibly. The long-frozen soil beneath the ...