New study from the University of Exeter shows that ecosystems can recover quickly when small actions push them past a tipping ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...