In the Economist Science section, we cover everything from dark matter to defence technology.
But there are few topics with the scale and importance of climate change.
This week, we have a story from Rachel Dobbs, the Economist's Environment Editor.
She's been looking at a new way in which some climate scientists have been trying to explain how rising temperatures could irreversibly change parts of the Earth's climate system much sooner than you might think.
Decades rather than centuries.
And those changes could be devastating.
Freezing continents, for example, or making countries uninhabitable or incapable of growing crops.
These drastic changes could tip the Earth from one state to another.
They should also reframe how we think about the environmental change that the world is facing.
I'm Alok Jha, and this is Babbage from The Economist.
Today, Rachel Dobbs on Earth's climate tipping points.
thinking and talking about things that will be really bad.
Someday.
That's not to say that there's not plenty that is bad now, some of which I've seen firsthand.
I've reported on women whose pregnancies have been damaged by heatwaves,
farmers whose cropland can no longer turn a profit,
and Muslim pilgrims who've died trying to carry out the Hajj.
But a lot of what I hear from researchers and politicians is about outcomes that will take place decades in the future.
Particularly if you live somewhere rich and relatively cool,
many of the changes that we've seen aren't that dramatic.