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permafrost researcher Vladimir Romanovsky on Alaska's North Slope

(Trying to) keep it cool: Vladimir Romanovsky on permafrost fieldwork

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

windmills and sunset sky

How to leverage positive tipping points for climate action

By Femke Nijsse, Steve Smith, Tim Lenton | Climate Change

The shrinking of the Greenland Ice Sheet can’t be stopped—but it can and must be slowed

By Twila Moon | Climate Change, Special Topics

a house surrounded by water

‘The riskometer has been going up all the time’: Tim Lenton on tipping points

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

Iceberg in Antarctica

Climate change will surprise us, but so-called ‘tipping points’ may lead us astray

By Robert Kopp, Elisabeth Gilmore, Rachael Shwom | Climate Change, Special Topics

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

Trump has a fighting chance to prevent Arctic meltdown. He should take it.

By Durwood J. Zaelke, Paul Bledsoe | Climate Change

glacier with and without efforts to rein in climate change

The best of the Bulletin’s bimonthly magazine, 2024

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Biosecurity, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

Sign reading "Caution Low Water Launch At Own Risk" at Great Salt Lake marina during a drought in front of naturally-colored grasses that look like fire.

How climate models could be underestimating drought

By Toby Ault | Climate Change

polar bear plastics

The heat is on: Earth Day 2024 puts spotlight on plastics

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

How ‘risk tipping points’ threaten humanity’s ability to cope with climate crisis

By Damian Carrington | Climate Change

trees under clouds in the Amazon rainforest

Experts fear drought and wildfires will push Amazon to irreversible tipping point

By Jonathan Watts | Climate Change