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Workshop on Tipping Points, Cascading Impacts, and Interacting Risks in the Earth System

Calving Glacier Alaska - Hubbard Glacier - a huge iceberg calves into Disenchantment Bay - St. Elias Alaska. Taken from an Alaska cruise ship - near Yukon, Canada

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The National Academies will convene a workshop on tipping points, cascading impacts, and interacting risks in the Earth system, building on the key characteristic and recommendations set forth in the recent report, Next Generation Earth Systems Science at the National Science Foundation. The workshop will apply Earth systems science approaches to explore understanding, prediction, and preparation for tipping points in the Earth system, and cultivate connections among the appropriate transdisciplinary research communities.

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