Climate change

After nearly two years’ worth of rain flooded the Dubai region Tuesday, attention quickly shifted to cloud seeding and whether it could have been a factor in the deluge. But scientists said the downpour was a product of weather patterns.

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre led an interdisciplinary team to evaluate different ways to harness humour and circus arts to help reshape policy dialogues relating to climate change and mental health.

Climate models have consistently predicted that as greenhouse gas emissions rise, ocean waters will warm, and this has proven to be mostly correct. However, the opposite has been happening in an area of the east Pacific Ocean.

The Wellcome Trust published a Climate Centre report on creative dialogues about mental health and climate change – the culmination of an eight-month pilot project to test innovative approaches to generate new insights into policy- and decision-making.

It’s impossible to accurately calculate the number of people who died in 2023 as a result of climate change. But a review of data suggests, at minimum, tens of thousands of people died in climate-change-influenced weather events around the world last year

The fertile and densely populated plain around the Indus and Ganges rivers is likely to become a climate change hotspot according to a new study published in the Journal of Hydrometeorology.

This briefing note considers where we are now in terms of the Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature limit, and what future mitigation action could mean for adaptation and loss and damage.

This brief explores the climatic and food security outcomes of positive and negative El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) phase alignment in different rainfall zones in Ethiopia, since 2000.