India, Oct. 14 -- Summary As global temperatures rise, the risk of crossing irreversible climate tipping points increases, threatening systems like ice sheets and rain forests.

Despite the alarming potential for catastrophic changes, there remains hope.

Understanding these tipping points and taking preventive actions can mitigate the risks, emphasising the importance of global efforts to curb warming and protect vulnerable ecosystems.

As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and rain forests, change irreversibly over human lifetimes.

Scientists have long warned that if global temperatures warmed more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) compared with be...