Research briefs

New study shows an unequivocal connection between climate change and increasingly destructive and frequent hurricanes in the USA.
University of Copenhagen
Climate change could cause Africa’s Lake Victoria, the Nile River source, to dry up within 500 years, and cause the White Nile to lose its water source in a decade.
University of Houston
New papers announced at 7th Global Dialogue Platform explore how evolving disaster risk financing could make action more effective in humanitarian crisis.
Start Network
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New research warns of extensive health damage from climate change and sets out the lifelong health consequences of rising temperatures for a child born today, should the world follow a business-as-usual pathway.
Lancet, the
Research suggests UK’s uplands could see significantly more annual rainfall than predicted, highlighting the challenge in anticipating the effects of climate change.
University of Plymouth
Research suggests the common linkage of Central American migration to climate change should be more nuanced, based on local trends not regional expectations.
University of Arizona
Urban development in east US causes flash flooding, but has opposite effect in west. Research suggests the urban stream syndrome manifests differently in arid systems.
Pennsylvania State University
Research on Antarctic melting from the last interglacial period suggests melting ice sheets will affect future sea level rises far more dramatically than anticipated.
Conversation Media Group, the
A new Monash University study correlates heat exposure with undernourishment, building on the well-documented indirect link between global warming and undernourishment.
Monash University
Analysis of historical seismic data finds West Texas earthquake activity has increased, revealing a correlation between earthquakes and oil and gas activity.
University of Texas

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