Earth’s climate balance isn’t just governed by the slow weathering of silicate rocks, which capture carbon and stabilize temperature over eons. New research reveals that biological and oceanic ...

This is the message of the sixth issue of the annual "State of the Climate" report. The report was prepared by an ...

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological records that chronicle our planet’s history. European scientists are ...

For three decades now, I have watched Earth warm—not through headlines or politics, but in my own data. Every year, the ...

Earth has entered a grim new climate reality. The planet has officially passed its first climate tipping point. Relentlessly rising heat in the oceans has now pushed corals around the world past their ...

Coral reefs around the globe have for years suffered publicly in warming oceans, periodically making headlines when iconic underwater landscapes lose their colors and wither during repeated mass ...

Surging temperatures worldwide have pushed coral reef ecosystems into a state of widespread decline, marking the first time the planet has reached a climate ‘tipping point’, researchers announced ...

The 2025 Global Tipping Points Report finds that the world’s warm-water coral reefs have become the first Earth system to cross its thermal tipping point, putting them at dire risk. Reading time 4 ...

Vast expanses of coral in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have died as a result of extremely high water temperatures. Surging temperatures worldwide have pushed coral reef ecosystems into a state of ...

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