Research briefs

New research shows how deforestation and population growth have greatly impacted landslide risk in the Kivu Rift.

Thousands of COVID-19 cases and deaths in California, Oregon, and Washington between March and December 2020 may be attributable to increases in fine particulate air pollution.

The past has an uncomfortable lesson for a warming world: climate heating begets even more of the same.

Researchers have shown that human-caused climate change will have important consequences for how volcanic gases interact with the atmosphere.

Researchers call for revisions to air-quality monitoring guidelines to consider the sources of emissions

Higher temperatures attributed to climate change caused payouts from the nation’s biggest farm support program to increase by $27 billion between 1991 and 2017.

No link currently shows climate change is driving migration out of East Africa, despite widespread acceptance that human mobility is a key impact of climate change.

The proportion of the population exposed to floods has grown by 24% globally since the turn of the century.

China introduced the Sponge City Initiative in 2014 to use nature-based solutions, integrating green spaces and “blue” systems into conventional “gray” infrastructure.

Climate change is driving a large increase in intense, slow-moving storms, a new study by Newcastle University and the Met Office has found.