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Carlos Nobre on tipping points in the Amazon rainforest

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

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‘Metaphors can grow legs’: David Armstrong McKay on tipping points

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

‘Notoriously difficult to investigate and even more difficult to predict’: Thomas Stocker on tipping points

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

Introduction: (Almost) everything you wanted to know about tipping points, but were too afraid to ask

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change, Special Topics

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“Fragile, impermanent things”: Joseph Tainter on what makes civilizations fall

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change, Special Topics

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Is the AMOC headed for a tipping point? Interview with Henk Dijkstra

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

People looking at a large projection of the Earth showing a map of sea surface temperatures

Earth on the brink? Looking back on nearly two decades of tipping point research

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

The six best climate stories of 2023

By | Climate Change

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Betting against worst-case climate scenarios is risky business

By David Spratt | Climate Change

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Managed to death: How Canada turned its forests into a carbon bomb

By Barry Saxifrage | Climate Change

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However the pandemic unfolds, it’s time for oil use to peak—and society to prepare for the fallout

By Yonatan Strauch, Angela Carter, Thomas Homer-Dixon | Climate Change