Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon

JS Albert, AC Carnaval, SGA Flantua, LG Lohmann… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Amazonian environments are being degraded by modern industrial and agricultural
activities at a pace far above anything previously known, imperiling its vast biodiversity …

A planetary boundary for green water

L Wang-Erlandsson, A Tobian, RJ Van der Ent… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Green water—terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture—is fundamental to
Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental …

Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system

BM Flores, E Montoya, B Sakschewski, N Nascimento… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The possibility that the Amazon forest system could soon reach a tip** point, inducing
large-scale collapse, has raised global concern,–. For 65 million years, Amazonian forests …

Exceeding 1.5 C global warming could trigger multiple climate tip** points

DI Armstrong McKay, A Staal, JF Abrams… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Climate tip** points occur when change in a part of the climate system becomes self-
perpetuating beyond a warming threshold, leading to substantial Earth system impacts …

Tropical deforestation causes large reductions in observed precipitation

C Smith, JCA Baker, DV Spracklen - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Tropical forests play a critical role in the hydrological cycle and can influence local and
regional precipitation. Previous work has assessed the impacts of tropical deforestation on …

Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing

SK Kim, J Shin, SI An, HJ Kim, N Im, SP ** elements
S Wang, A Foster, EA Lenz, JD Kessler… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tip** elements are components of the Earth system which may respond nonlinearly to
anthropogenic climate change by transitioning toward substantially different long‐term …

Interacting tip** elements increase risk of climate domino effects under global warming

N Wunderling, JF Donges, J Kurths… - Earth System …, 2020 - esd.copernicus.org
There exists a range of subsystems in the climate system exhibiting threshold behaviour
which could be triggered under global warming within this century resulting in severe …

Biodiversity loss and climate change interactions: financial stability implications for central banks and financial supervisors

K Kedward, J Ryan-Collins, H Chenet - Climate Policy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Financial risks related to climate change and biodiversity loss are currently being addressed
in a largely siloed manner. Neglecting their interconnections, however, may lead to 'blind …

[HTML][HTML] Climate tip** point interactions and cascades: A review

N Wunderling, AS von der Heydt… - Earth System …, 2024 - esd.copernicus.org
Climate tip** elements are large-scale subsystems of the Earth that may transgress critical
thresholds (tip** points) under ongoing global warming, with substantial impacts on the …