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Tipping Point: Amazon rainforest turning to savanna
The Amazon rainforest is likely losing resilience, which is the ability to recover from perturbations like droughts. This is revealed by applying a novel statistical analysis to high-resolution satellite data of biomass. While the Amazon… Read More »Tipping Point: Amazon rainforest turning to savanna
Tipping points can destabilize each other, leading to climate domino collapse effects
Under global warming, tipping elements in the Earth system can destabilize each other and eventually lead to climate domino collapse effects. The ice sheets on Greenland and West Antarctica are potential starting points for tipping… Read More »Tipping points can destabilize each other, leading to climate domino collapse effects