The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, landmark report finds

According to a recent report compiled by 160 scientists from around the world, planet Earth has recently entered what we might call “a new reality”. Although this may sound positive, like the promise of a new beginning, the current environmental situation is disastrous, if not terrifying. We are facing the first in a series of points of no return in the climate landscape: the spread of coral reef death.

The planet is rapidly becoming hotter due to the incessant fires afflicting the Earth; the use of fossil fuels is just one of the causes behind abnormal heat waves, floods, droughts and increasingly frequent forest fires. This increasing heat is threatening every day more and more the natural systems of the planet, from the Amazon rainforest to the polar ice sheets.

These continuous attacks on nature are pushing us closer and closer to real points of no return. Coral reefs, historically famous for their bright, saturated colours and teeming with animal life, are now bleached and empty, inhabited only and exclusively by algae.