Tipping points are the death of ecosystems. So scientists watch as warning signs gradually worsen until an ecosystem reaches the point of no return, when animal populations suddenly collapse.

With the Bay-Delta watershed in the throes of an ecological crisis, California’s water regulators Thursday unveiled several controversial options for managing the heart of the state’s water ...

For instance, the California condor, a critically endangered bird, faces increased risks as its ... but about the collapse of entire ecosystems. Soil Degradation. ...

In California, nearly 4,000 native plant and animal species depend on the state’s freshwater ecosystems. Trout, salmon and smelt run the rivers and carry nutrients to and from the oceans.

These factors pushed the Southern California ecosystem to a tipping point. Similar combinations of climate warming and human impacts have been blamed for ice age extinctions elsewhere, but our ...

A new study by a team of researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ... Citation: A data-driven model to help avoid ecosystem collapse (2025, June 16 ...

With the Bay-Delta watershed in the throes of an ecological crisis, California’s water regulators Thursday unveiled several controversial options for managing the heart of the state’s water ...

A data-driven model to help avoid ecosystem collapse New study gives conservationists a simpler, general approach for predicting an ecosystem’s tipping point and what comes next June 13 ... A ...