Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But today, a group of 160 scientists from 23 countries announced that the planet has already reached its first major tipping point ...

On April 28, SCUBA teams from the DLNR Division of Aquatic Resources dove to a selected location in Kewalo Basin on O‘ahu’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused ...

In a lab at the University of Miami, there are tanks of knobby, tan-colored corals from Florida, Honduras and the Cayman Islands. They've been drafted into a sort of coral Olympics, as scientists look ...

The Earth has entered a new climate reality: warm-water coral reefs are now widely recognized as the first environment on the planet to have passed a climate tipping point. The Global Tipping Points ...

Some parts of this epic coral reef system weren’t even where the greatest reefs are found today. But remnants have survived.

Global temperature rise may feel like it’s gradual, but the changes it brings can turn out to be sudden, massive, and self-reinforcing. These changes are what scientists call tipping points. When a ...