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Displaying 30 of about 2921 resultsThere is likely to be a significant increase in the danger of wildfires through the 21st century. Indeed, the expectation is that by 2100 the danger will be high even in regions where it is very low today. Those are the findings of a study by Julia Miller, a PhD student in the Hydrology & Climate Impacts in Mountain Regions research group…
Stretching across seven Central and Eastern European countries, the Carpathian mountain range is home to some of the continent's largest intact forests. It boasts nearly 4,000 plant species, as well as large populations of brown bears and grey wolves.In 2003, the Carpathian Convention was established, bringing together the Czech Republic, Hungary, Polan…
[...]Writing in the Science Advances journal in 2018, climatologists Carlos Nobre and Thomas Lovejoy used the phrase "tipping point" to refer to the possible impact of environmental destruction in the Amazon, especially deforestation, climate change and fires.Their influential article estimated that between 20% and 25% of the Amazon forest must be kept…
Extreme weather and climate events, such as droughts, heat waves, and rainstorms, pose serious threats to human health, agricultural production, and energy supplies. These events often occur at the same time, and such "compound extreme events" can cause far more damage than any one single event.Climate scientists from the research group of Prof. Aihui W…
Weather instabilities in the Arctic and changes in air temperature in distant regions such as California and Southwest China are linked, an international team of researchers reveals. Their study has been published in Nature Communications. The scientists also demonstrate that increased day-to-day irregularities in Arctic sea ice cover are caused by the…
Much of the world’s natural coastline is protected by living habitats, most notably mangroves in warmer waters and tidal marshes closer to the poles. These ecosystems support fisheries and wildlife, absorb the impact of crashing waves and clean up pollutants. But these vital services are threatened by global warming and rising sea levels.Recent research…
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet will continue to increase its rate of melting over the rest of the century, no matter how much we reduce fossil fuel use, according to British Antarctic Survey (BAS) research published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change. A substantial acceleration in ice melting likely cannot now be avoided, which implies that An…
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The islands of Hawaii are world renowned for their generally pleasant and tranquil weather. However, the Aug. 8, 2023, wildfire tragedy on Maui was a stark reminder that Hawaii also can experience drought and hot, dry, windy weather, providing the conditions for destructive fires.Hawaii has seen a generally rising trend in the amount of land that burns…
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…
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…
Rivers around the world have been drying up recently. The Loire in France broke records in mid-August for its low water levels, while photos circulating online show the mighty Danube, Rhine, Yangtze and Colorado rivers all but reduced to trickles.
It is not just rivers that are running low but the reservoirs they replenish, leading…
Every heatwave occurring today is made more likely and intense by human-caused climate change. Early estimates by the UK Met Office suggest that days over 40°C have become ten times more likely to happen in the UK as a result of the rising global temperature.
But even this may be a significant underestimate, as models have unde…
Austin, Texas — More of the world’s coastal glaciers are melting faster than ever, but exactly what’s triggering the large-scale retreat has been difficult to pin down because of natural fluctuations in the glaciers’ surroundings. Now, researchers at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) and Georgia Tech have developed a methodology th…
Mayors from Latin America, Africa and Asia will be welcoming more than 90% of the new urban inhabitants in the next decade. Governing these ballooning cities is a continuing challenge, not just in terms of urban design and revitalisation, but in terms of preparedness for climate change.
80% of cities worldwide now face extreme climate-related events, a…