Research briefs

Silhouette electricity pylons during sunset
Conditions that usually accompany the kind of intense hot and cold weather that strains power grids may also provide greater opportunities to capture solar and wind energy.
Washington State University
Wildfire in Stanislaus National Forest, California, 2013
A new study using NASA satellite data reveals how drought affects the recovery of western ecosystems from fire, a result that could provide meaningful information for conservation efforts.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
INRAE, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux and Université de Bourgogne have analysed trends to come in current and developing winegrowing regions around the world to adapt wine production to climate change.
National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment
The UK will be increasingly tested by more droughts like 2022, emphasising the importance of being prepared for similar extreme weather in future, say scientists who have analysed that summer’s events.
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
In a recent study, a team of researchers led by Bruno Merz and Sergiy Vorogushyn from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences proposes a new strategy to motivate society to discuss appropriate flood risk management strategies.
The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
A man wades through the flood in Buenos Aires, Argentina
There are several factors that play an important role in the development of floods: air temperature, soil moisture, snow depth, and the daily precipitation in the days before a flood.
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren)
Food market
New research shows that climate change is already fueling heatflation, with worse to come.
Grist Magazine
Uncounted costs - heat
Considering that extreme heat events have been becoming increasingly frequent in recent decades and are also expected to do so in the future, effective control strategies to reduce ozone pollution risks are urgently needed.
Chinese Academy of Sciences
A new prediction method fueled by an MIT-derived algorithm helps forecast frequency of extreme weather.
MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This study documents evidence of the potential of Indigenous and local knowledge in reducing vulnerability to climate change and/or improving the resilience of communities.
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