US EditionCoral reefs become first environmental system on Earth to pass climate "tipping point," report says
Warm-water coral reefs have crossed a critical 1.2°C warming threshold, with over 80% affected by bleaching, threatening marine biodiversity and livelihoods of nearly a billion people, scientists say.
- Global warming has caused the world's coral reefs to cross an irreversible tipping point into ecosystem collapse, according to a report by 160 researchers.
- The same report revised down the estimated temperature threshold for the potential collapse of the Amazon rainforest system to just 1.5°C of global warming.
- The report warns that even lower levels of global warming than previously thought could trigger catastrophic and irreversible changes, such as the collapse of ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica.
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The coral reefs have almost certainly already crossed a point of catastrophic climate change, warning dozens of researchers on Monday 13 October. The cause: the warming of the oceans, which threatens their survival. This can also trigger a domino effect of cascading disasters, often irreversible. - Coral reefs have crossed a "point of change" in the face of climate change (Environment).
Climate tipping points sound scary, especially for ice sheets and oceans – here’s why there’s still room for optimism
Meltwater runs across the Greenland ice sheet in rivers. The ice sheet is already losing mass and could soon reach a tipping point. Maria-José Viñas/NASAAs the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and rain forests, change irreversibly over human lifetimes. Scientists have long warned that if global temperatures warmed more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) compare…
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Global warming is crossing dangerous thresholds sooner, scientists warn
Global warming was crossing dangerous thresholds sooner than expected with the world’s coral reefs now in an almost irreversible die-off, marking what scientists on Monday described as the first “tipping point” in climate-driven ecosystem collapse. The warning in the Global Tipping Points report by 160 researchers worldwide, which synthesises groundbreaking science to estimate points of no return, came just weeks ahead of this year’s Cop30 clima…
Climate tipping points are being crossed, scientists warn ahead of COP30
Global warming is crossing dangerous thresholds sooner than expected with the world’s coral reefs now in an almost irreversible die-off, marking what scientists on Monday described as the first “tipping point” in climate-driven ecosystem collapse.
The latter affect the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people and the survival of one million marine species.
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