Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earlier this month, scientists announced that humanity has kicked off the first major “tipping point” — in which an Earth system ...

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 ...

There are countless environmental systems across the globe, in the air, on land, and in the seas. All these systems are interconnected and, if changed too drastically, they can have wide-ranging ...

Laura Pereira receives funding from Oppenheimer Research and Conservation, Formas, European Research Council, NRF. New research has found that the world has reached the first of many Earth system ...