The Chinese Characters for Crisis The Chinese characters, Wei Ji, pictured here, have been popularly used to symbolize “crisis.” They have been popularized in speeches by political figures like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Climate tipping points are a specter looming over our future — thresholds beyond which the Earth’s systems switch into new states, ...

Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs under way, as world reaches first tipping point With global warming set to breach 1.5°C, world dangerously close to further catastrophic tipping points ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused ...

Earth’s climate is no longer edging toward danger in the abstract. Scientists now say at least one major part of the system has already tipped into a new state, with others close behind. The question ...

From melting ice sheets to collapsing ocean currents, these sudden, irreversible changes could reshape the planet in ways we can’t undo. But what does it really mean to cross a tipping point? How do ...