Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects
Climate change that stimulates tree growth can make smaller trees produce more seeds per year, but also can render larger trees less able to reproduce.Read More →
Anthropogenic climate change is worsening North American pollen seasons
Long-term pollen data from 60 North American stations and Earth system model simulations quantify the role of human-caused climate change in continental patterns in pollen concentrations.Read More →
Recent responses to climate change reveal the drivers of species extinction and survival
This study addresses the specific changes in climate that were associated with recent population extinctions, using data from 538 plant and animal species distributed globally. Read More →
Fourth National Climate Assessment
This report analyzes the effects of global change on the natural environment, examines current trends in global change, and projects major trends for the subsequent 25 to 100 years. Read More →
Marine Heatwaves Under Global Warming
This report argues that marine heat waves (MHWs) are becoming longer-lasting and more frequent, extensive and intense in the past few decades, and that this trend will accelerate under further global warming.Read More →
Extinction risks forced by climatic change and intraspecific variation in the thermal physiology of a tropical lizard
The study's results support the hypothesis that tropical-lizard taxa are at high risk of local extinction caused by increasing temperatures.Read More →
Anthropogenic Intensification of Southern African Flash Droughts as Exemplified by the 2015/16 Season
Flash drought over southern Africa was tripled during the last 60 years mainly due to anthropogenic climate change, and it was intensified during 2015/16 in the midst of heat waves.Read More →
Anthropogenic Enhancement of Moderate-to-Strong El Niño Events Likely Contributed to Drought and Poor Harvests in Southern Africa During 2016
A 40-member CESM LE ensemble indicates that climate change likely increased the intensity of the 2015/16 El Niño, contributing to further decreases in SA precipitation, crop production and food availability.Read More →
A Multifactor Risk Analysis of the Record 2016 Great Barrier Reef Bleaching
Anthropogenic greenhouse gases likely increased the risk of the extreme Great Barrier Reef bleaching event through anomalously high sea surface temperature and the accumulation of thermal stress.Read More →
Ecological Impacts of the 2015/16 El Niño in the Central Equatorial Pacific
Coral reef and seabird communities in the central equatorial Pacific were disrupted by record-setting sea surface temperatures, linked to an anthropogenically forced trend, during the 2015/16 El Niño.Read More →