Our planet has passed its first major climate tipping point with the widespread collapse of warm-water coral reefs already underway, scientists warned on Monday.
The latest Global Tipping Points Report, led by the University of Exeter and released ahead of next year’s Cop30 climate summit in Brazil, says that coral ecosystems – on which about a billion people depend for food and livelihood – are now tipping into an irreversible decline. This means the Earth has entered a “new reality”.
