The UK's new moonshot research agency just launched an 81 million ($106 million) program to develop early warning systems to sound the alarm if Earth gets perilously close to crossing climate tipping points. A climate tipping point is a threshold beyond which certain ecosystems or planetary processes begin to shift from one stable state to...

This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The UK is building an alarm system for climate tipping points The news: The UK's new moonshot research agency just launched an 81 million ($106 million) program to develop early warning systems to...