Green water — terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture — is fundamental to
Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental to …

Over the past 10 years the use of the term ‘tipping point' in the scientific literature has exploded.
It was originally used loosely as a metaphor for the phenomenon that, beyond a certain …

Climate tipping points occur when change in a part of the climate system becomes self-perpetuating
beyond a warming threshold, leading to substantial Earth system impacts. …

Tropical forests modify the conditions they depend on through feedbacks at different spatial
scales. These feedbacks shape the hysteresis (history-dependence) of tropical forests, thus …

Reduced rainfall increases the risk of forest dieback, while in return forest loss might intensify
regional droughts. The consequences of this vegetation–atmosphere feedback for the …

The expansion of globalized industrial societies is causing global warming, ecosystem
degradation, and species and language extinctions worldwide. Mainstream conservation efforts …

In 1918 Fleischer reported that after transmission from one generation to the next, myotonic
dystrophy has an earlier onset and is more severe. The hypothesis put forward by Penrose in …

Tree transpiration in the Amazon may enhance rainfall for downwind forests. Until now it has
been unclear how this cascading effect plays out across the basin. Here, we calculate local …

Deforestation and drought are among the greatest environmental pressures on the Amazon
rainforest, possibly destabilizing the forest-climate system. Deforestation in the Amazon …

Statins, which are inhibitors of 3‐hydroxy‐3‐glutaryl‐coenzyme A (HMG‐CoA) reductase,
decrease the hepatic biosynthesis of cholesterol by blocking the mevalonate pathway. Nitrogen…