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Warming temperatures exacerbate groundwater depletion rates in India

September 2023
Nishan Bhattarai, David B. Lobell, Balwinder-Singh, Ram Fishman, William P. Kustas, Yadu Pokhrel, Meha Jain
Science Advances
This peer-reviewed study finds that farmers in India have adapted to warming temperatures by drawing down groundwater reservoirs, and that regional groundwater loss from 2041-2080 could be three times current depletion rates.Read More →

Decreasing fire season precipitation increased recent western U.S. forest wildfire activity

August 2023
Zachary Holden, Alan Swanson, Charles Luce, W. Jolly, Marco Maneta, Jared Oyler, Dyer Warren, Russell Parsons, and David Affleck
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
This peer-reviewed study uses climate modeling and statistical analysis of precipitation trends from 1979 to 2015 in the western United States to show that declines in summer precipitation contributed to the area of land burned by wildfires.Read More →

CO2 fertilization effect may balance climate change impacts on oil palm cultivation

April 2023
Tim Beringer, Christoph Müller, Julia Chatterton, Michal Kulak, Sibyll Schaphoff, Yvonne Jans
Environmental Research Letters
This study examines the impact of CO2 fertilization on palm oil yields, and finds that under all climate scenarios yields are anticipated to increase. This contradicts earlier studies, which did not consider positive effects of CO2 fertilization.Read More →

Synthesis Report of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

March 2023
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
This Synthesis Report summarizes the state of knowledge of climate change, its widespread impacts and risks, and climate change mitigation and adaptation, based on the peer-reviewed scientific, technical and socio-economic literature since 2014.Read More →

Economic impacts of melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

October 2022
Simon Dietz, Felix Koninx
Nature Communications
This peer-reviewed study couples models of arctic ice sheet melting due to rising temperatures, sea level rise (SLR), and economic impacts of SLR to estimate the economic impact of arctic melting.Read More →

Extreme Events and Gender-Based Violence: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review

June 2022
Kim Robin van Daalen, Sarah Savić Kallesøe, Fiona Davey, Sara Dada, Laura Jung, Lucy Singh, Rita Issa, Christina Alma Emilian, Isla Kuhn, Ines Keygnaert, Maria Nilsson
The Lancet
This review paper examines the literature surrounding gender-based violence (GBV) during or after extreme events. Most reviewed studies show an increase in GBV following disasters, which may be exacerbated by climate change.Read More →