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Increasing Global Temperatures may Place Airports at Risk of Coastal Flooding

Even a modest sea level rise, triggered by increasing global temperatures, would place 100 airports below mean sea level by 2100, a new study has found.

22 Jan 2021

Pearl Millet can Withstand Climate Change Chaos Better than Wheat

In recent years, agriculture and climate experts have been warning that extreme climate events such as severe droughts with frequent heatwaves reduce the production of significant staple food crops like wheat, posing a severe threat to food security.

21 Jan 2021

Slow Rainy Season Onset is a Reliable Indicator of Drought in Regions Prone to Food Insecurity

The onset date of the yearly rainy season reliably predicts if seasonal drought will occur in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa that are particularly vulnerable to food insecurity, and could help to mitigate its effects. Shraddhanand Shukla and colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara's Climate Hazards Center, present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on January 20, 2021.

21 Jan 2021

New Method Improves Computer Model Estimations of Climate Change

Climate researchers have found a simple but efficient way to improve estimations of ultimate global warming from complex climate models. The finding is relevant for the evaluation and comparison of climate models and thus for accurate projections of future climate change - especially beyond the year 2100.

20 Jan 2021

New Framework for Calculating Carbon Budget Provides Clarity into Climate Targets

Just how close are the world's countries to achieving the Paris Agreement target of keeping climate change limited to a 1.5 °C increase above pre-industrial levels?

20 Jan 2021

Is Human Activity Creating a Breeding Ground for Pandemics?

Research led by The University of Western Australia has revealed that climate change, environmental degradation of land and human activity are creating a breeding ground for viruses such as COVID-19 and there may be an even deadlier pandemic on the horizon.

20 Jan 2021

UCI Study: Future Climate Change Will Cause an Uneven Shift of the Earth's Tropical Rain Belt

Future climate change will cause a regionally uneven shifting of the tropical rain belt - a narrow band of heavy precipitation near the equator - according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions. This development may threaten food security for billions of people.

19 Jan 2021

Study Shows How Ectotherms Respond to Global Warming

Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile have shown that thermal tolerance differs quantifiably according to body size in ectotherms—animals whose body temperature mainly relies on environmental temperature (the majority of the animals).

18 Jan 2021

Scientists Provide Recommendations to Improve the Indian Ocean Observing System

A group of more than 60 scientists have provided recommendations to improve the Indian Ocean Observing System (IndOOS), a basin-wide monitoring system to better understand the impacts of human-caused climate change in a region that has been warming faster than any other ocean.

18 Jan 2021

Review Highlights Heat-Health Outcome Nexus in the Urban Context

Over the last half-century, the probability of heat extreme events has changed by orders of magnitude in almost every region of the world, with occurrences that are now up to a hundred times more in respect to a century ago.

18 Jan 2021