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Tipping points that affect the biosphere include the loss of the Amazon Rainforest and the high-latitude boreal (coniferous) forests. Ocean currents can have tipping points too, and particular attention is focused on the Gulf Stream and associated North Atlantic currents that make up what is known as the Atlantic Meridional ...

In the year 2024 women won the elections for all the highest positions in Icelandic politics for the first time. Male and female candidates have the same rights and equal opportunities to be elected for high positions in the country.

Arctic Circle is the largest network of international dialogue and cooperation on the future of the Arctic and our Planet. It is an open democratic platform with participation from governments, organizations, corporations, universities, think tanks, environmental associations, indigenous communities, concerned citizens, and others. It is nonprofit and nonpartisan.

In this article, Prof Bill McGuire, University College London, summarizes the disturbing evidence on tipping points in the climate system.

Earth’s climate is now changing faster than at any point in the known history of the climate, primarily as a result of human activities.

Global warming is the long-term warming of the planet’s overall temperature. Its pace has significantly increased in the last hundred years.