by faster | Jun 23, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: MongaBay DATE: June 23, 2021 SNIP: When the first tile in a line of dominoes tips forward, it affects everything in front of it. One after another, lined-up dominoes knock into each other and topple. This is essentially what could happen to ice sheets, ocean...
by faster | Dec 20, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Washington Post DATE: December 20, 2019 SNIP: Deforestation and other fast-moving changes in the Amazon threaten to turn parts of the rainforest into savanna, devastate wildlife and release billions of tons carbon into the atmosphere, two renowned experts...
by faster | Nov 27, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Nature DATE: November 27, 2019 SNIP: Politicians, economists and even some natural scientists have tended to assume that tipping points1 in the Earth system — such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest or the West Antarctic ice sheet — are of low probability...
by faster | Oct 22, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: October 22, 2019 SNIP: Soaring deforestation coupled with the destructive policies of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, could push the Amazon rainforest dangerously to an irreversible “tipping point” within two years, a prominent...
by faster | Jul 25, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: July 25, 2019 SNIP: Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has surged above three football fields a minute, according to the latest government data, pushing the world’s biggest rainforest closer to a tipping point beyond which it cannot...