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Impact Attribution

This category encompasses research aimed at understanding how global climate change affects human and natural systems. The resources listed below deal with localized physical impacts, such as floods, droughts, and sea level rise, and the corresponding effects on infrastructure, public health, ecosystems, agriculture, and economies.

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Effect of climate on surgical site infections and anticipated increases in the United States

November 2022
Raymond J. Liou, Michelle J. Earley, Joseph D. Forrester
Nature Scientific Reports
Climate-driven increases in precipitation and humidity increase the risk of surgical site infections. This study finds that the Southeast United States will suffer an estimated 3% increase in SSI by 2060 under high emissions assumptions.Read More →

Compound flood hazard at Lake Como, Italy, is driven by temporal clustering of rainfall events

October 2022
Fabiola Banfi, Carlo De Michele
Nature Communications Earth & Environment
This peer-reviewed study analyzes data on lake floods at Lake Como in Northern Italy, identifying the effect of temporal clustering of rainfall on lake flooding. This study contributes to an understanding of compound climate-based events.Read More →

Climate-driven decoupling of wetland and upland biomass trends on the mid-Atlantic coast

October 2022
Yaping Chen, Matthew L. Kirwan
Nature Geoscience
This peer-reviewed study uses 36 years of satellite observations to understand the impact of climate change and sea-level rise on the role that coastal ecosystems play as a global carbon sink.Read More →

Impact of Climate Change on Productivity of Food Crops: A Sub-National Level Assessment for India

September 2022
C A Rama Rao, B M K Raju, Samuel Josily, A V M S Rao, R Nagarjuna Kumar, M Srinivasa Rao, N Swapna, G Samba Siva, Y L Meghana, M Prabhakar, V K Singh
Environmental Research Communications
Impact assessment of climate change on food crops in India. Study projects that crop yields will decrease across most of India over the 21st century due to climate change.Read More →

Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change

August 2022
Camilo Mora, Tristan McKenzie, Isabella M. Gaw, Jacqueline M. Dean, Hannah von Hammerstein, Tabatha A. Knudson, Renee O. Setter, Charlotte Z. Smith, Kira M. Webster, Jonathan A. Patz & Erik C. Franklin
Nature Climate Change
This study is a systematic search for empirical examples about the impacts of ten climatic hazards sensitive to greenhouse gas emissions on each known human pathogenic disease.Read More →

Climate Change, Fossil-Fuel Pollution, and Children’s Health

June 2022
Frederica Perera, Dr.P.H., Ph.D., and Kari Nadeau, M.D., Ph.D.
The New England Journal of Medicine
This review article assesses climate change's impacts on children's health.Read More →

Changing Hydrographic, Biogeochemical, and Acidification Properties in the Gulf of Maine as Measured by the Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series, GNATS, Between 1998 and 2018

June 2022
William M. Balch, David T. Drapeau, Bruce C. Bowler, Nicholas R. Record, Nicholas R. Bates, Sunny Pinkham, Rebecca Garley, Catherine Mitchell
JGR: Biogeosciences
This study covers physical, chemical, biological, biogeochemical, and bio-optical changes in the Gulf of Maine.Read More →

From white to green: Snow cover loss and increased vegetation productivity in the European Alps

June 2022
Sabine B. Rumpf, Mathieu Gravey, Olivier Brönnimann, Miska Luoto, Carmen Cianfrani, Gregoire Mariethoz, Antoine Guisan
Science
This study quantifies global warming's effects on greening (productivity gain), browning (productivity loss), and snow cover decline in the European Alps.Read More →

Rising temperatures erode human sleep globally

May 2022
Kelton Minor, Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Sigga Svala Jonasdottir, Sune Lehmann, Nick Obradovich
OneEarth
This study finds that increased temperature shortens sleep primarily through delayed onset, increasing the probability of insufficient sleep, and that those in hotter regions experience comparably more sleep loss per degree of warming.Read More →

Human influence increases the likelihood of extremely early cherry tree flowering in Kyoto

May 2022
Nikolaos Christidis, Yasuyuki Aono, and Peter A Stott
Environmental Research Letters
This study assesses the impact of climate change on cherry blossom flowering. Read More →

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