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Displaying 30 of about 1105 resultsMost comprehensive study to date on water storage in Tibetan Plateau projects dramatic losses of freshwater storage in parts of Asia by mid-century under modest climate policy scenario.
The Tibetan Plateau, known as the “water tower” of Asia, supplies freshwater for nearly 2 billion people who live downstream. New research led by scientists at Penn Sta…
Climate change has already made extreme precipitation in California twice as likely, part of a trend projected to continue through 2100.
Extreme storm sequences are projected to generate 200% to 400% more runoff by the end of the century.
Today’s study is the first part of ArkStorm 2.0, a scenario to prepare for catastrophic flooding in the western…
Pacific island state seeks donor funding for clear measures to tackle rising damage from climate change impacts.
Pacific island state Vanuatu has submitted a "groundbreaking" update to its commitments under the Paris climate accord to include phasing out fossil fuels and a costing of how it aims to tackle destruction caused by rising seas and wild weat…
From crop damage to cooling failures at cloud-based data centers, climate change affects a wide variety of economic sectors. It’s unclear whether a country’s economy can bounce back each year from these impacts or if global temperature increases cause permanent and cumulative impacts on the market economy.
A study from the Un…
The cancellation of the Manitoba Marathon due to extreme heat may provide a case study for athletic event management in extreme weather.
As researchers in kinesiology and recreation management, we took an interest in how the disruption was handled not only professionally, but also from a personal perspective: one of us (Shaelyn) was participa…
This study examines the evolving trends for temperature and precipitation, future water availability and the country’s suitability to grow crops under different climate change scenarios in Burkina Faso. The study’s projections go up to 2090, offering opportunities not only to look into short-term trends (2030), but also to take into account medium (2050…
Climate change can exacerbate a full 58% of the infectious diseases that humans come in contact with worldwide, from common waterborne viruses to deadly diseases like plague, our new research shows.
Our team of environment and health scientists reviewed decades of scientific papers on all known pathogenic disease pathogens to c…
Archaeological sites such as those in the Mosque City of Bagerhat on the coast of the country are particularly vulnerable to climate change.
There must be something wrong with the saltwater,” says Mohammad Helal Uddin, the khatib of the Sixty Dome Mosque, part of the Mosque City of Bagerhat, a Unesco world heritage site on Bangladesh’s south…
On Monday and Tuesday, 18 & 19 July 2022, an exceptional heatwave affected large parts of the UK. It was the first time that temperatures of 40°C and above have been forecast in the UK.
On Tuesday, 40.3°C was reached in Coningsby in Lincolnshire, breaking the previous maximum temperature record of 38.7°C set in 2019. Local records have been broken…
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The IPCC AR6 Working Group II report provides a powerful synthesis of evidence of the plethora of losses and damages due to climate change. Extreme weather events are direct and indirect drivers of migration and displacement. Climate change has influenced changes in temporary, seasonal or permanent migration causing economic losses that undermine…
This report explores how advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (a pairing referred to the report simply as “AI”) are tools uniquely positioned to help manage the complex issues brought about by climate change. Three areas of application are particularly relevant: Mitigation, adaptation and resilience, and fundamentals. AI’s unique capacity to g…
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Global warming caused by human activities raised the probability of record high temperatures across Japan this summer by 240 times compared to the expected chances in the absence of global warming, a Japanese research team announced on Sept. 6.
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The group used a method called "event attribution" to quantitively analyze how global warming h…
This study provides perspective on projected future changes in extreme ocean waves by quantifying change in high-frequency extreme wave events over decision or impact-relevant time horizons using a multi-index approach and a large multi-method multi-model ensemble. The projected increases in high-frequency extreme wave forcing across most of the Souther…
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You are invited to join the launch this coming Monday, 12 September 2022; 12:00-13:00hrs local time (Suva) of the “Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2022 for ESCAP Subregions – Pathways for Adaptation and Resilience in the Pacific” followed by key takeaways for policymakers. This event is jointly organized by ESCAP, the UNDRR…
This article aims to establish a rainfall-runoff relationship; estimate depth and extent of inundation under climate change scenarios; assess impacts on the socio-economy; and identify and evaluate adaptation strategies in Nepal's East Rapti Watershed (ERW). The ERW has been the site of devastating floods but effective mitigation and adaptation measures…