The Arctic is heating up particularly fast as a result of global warming—with serious consequences. The widespread permafrost in this region, where soils currently store twice as much carbon as ...

The domino effect of melting permafrost extends far beyond polar regions. Increased greenhouse gas emissions play a key role in warming global temperatures, displacing weather patterns ...

Multiple climate "tipping points" are likely to be triggered if global policies stay on their current course, new research ...

As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

Multiple climate 'tipping points' are likely to be triggered if global policies stay on their current course, new research shows.

Researchers developed a method that uses high-resolution satellite imagery and deep machine learning to double the mapped ...

A new peer-reviewed study warns that the Earth is on a dangerous trajectory toward breaching multiple environmental “tipping points” that could cause long-term and irreversible damage to the planet’s ...

Scientists assessed the risk of “tipping” in 16 different parts of the Earth system – ranging from the collapse of major ice ...