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A vast system of Atlantic currents that delivers warmth to northern Europe is at risk of collapse, according to a growing body of research. The latest study to warn of its demise finds there is at least a 10 percent chance that a collapse may already be “locked in.”

The Green Scare created precedents that today reach far beyond radical environmentalism, and threaten anyone willing to engage in direct action.

Pour la première fois, un robot humanoïde open source se monte chez soi comme un meuble en kit. La société singapourienne Menlo Research commercialise Asimov à 15 000 dollars — soit presque uniquement le coût des matériaux. Derrière ce prix, une ambition claire : sortir la robotique bipède des laboratoires d’élite pour la mettre entre les mains des développeurs indépendants et des chercheurs du monde entier.

The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most realistic. Scientists called the new finding “very concerning” as a collapse would have catastrophic consequences for Europe, Africa and the Americas.

Dans le World Energy Outlook 2025 de l’Agence internationale de l’énergie (AIE) rendu public ce 12 novembre(1), le « Current Policies Scenario » (CPS), tombé en disgrâce en 2019, refait surface. Ce scénario suppose la pleine application des « politiques et régulations déjà en place ». C’est un scénario de triomphe de l’Amérique trumpienne : le pétrole et le gaz dominent encore le système énergétique en 2050 ; les émissions de CO2 diminuent à peine d’ici 2050 ; la température mondiale n’est pas stabilisée avant la fin du siècle.

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

The vast ice of Antarctica has long seemed impregnable. But sudden changes are arriving – from shrinking sea ice to melting ice sheets and slowing ocean currents.

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Sascha is a U.K.-based staff writer at Live Science. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Southampton in England and a master’s degree in science communication from Imperial College London. Her work has appeared in The Guardian and the health website Zoe. Besides writing, she enjoys playing tennis, bread-making and browsing second-hand shops for hidden gems.

We investigate the probabilities of triggering climate tipping points under five Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) and how they are altered by including the additional carbon emissions that could arise from tipping points within the Earth's carbon cycle. The crossing of a climate tipping point at a threshold level of global mean surface temperature (threshold temperature) would commit the affected subsystem of the Earth to abrupt and largely irreversible changes with negative impacts on human well-being. However, it remains unclear which tipping points would be triggered under the different SSPs due to uncertainties in the climate sensitivity to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, the threshold temperatures and timescales of climate tipping points, and the response of tipping points within the Earth's carbon cycle to global warming. We include those uncertainties in our analysis to derive probabilities of triggering for 16 previously identified climate tipping points within the Earth system.