Climate Crisis Reaches Tipping Point With Coral Reefs Near Collapse, Scientists Say

Scientists warned on Monday that global warming is surpassing critical thresholds sooner than anticipated, with the world’s coral reefs suffering an almost irreversible decline, a development they described as the first major “tipping point” signalling the onset of climate-induced ecosystem collapse .

The warning in the Global Tipping Points report by 160 researchers worldwide, which synthesizes groundbreaking science to estimate points of no return, comes just weeks ahead of this year’s COP30 climate summit being held at the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

That same rainforest system is now at risk of collapsing once the average global temperature warms beyond just 1.5 degrees Celsius based on deforestation rates, the report said, revising down the estimated threshold for t