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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

People who follow climate change are often told there is a "tipping point," a single moment after which it will be too late to reverse the damage caused by our excessive use of fossil fuels. Yet ...

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 ...