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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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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

February 2022
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
This report assesses the impacts of climate change and reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to adapt.Read More →

Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires

February 2022
United Nations Environment Programme & GRID-Arendal
United Nations Environment Programme
This report finds that climate change and land-use change are making wildfires worse and anticipates a global increase of extreme fires even in areas previously unaffected.Read More →

Frontiers 2022: Noise, Blazes and Mismatches

February 2022
United Nations Environment Programme
United Nations Environment Programme
This report highlights the role of climate change and human influence in the changing wildfire regimes around the world, and the role of climate change in disrupting the life cycle patterns of plant and animal species.Read More →

Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire

February 2022
Jennifer K. Balch, John T. Abatzoglou, Maxwell B. Joseph, Michael J. Koontz, Adam L. Mahood, Joseph McGlinchy, Megan E. Cattau & A. Park Williams
Nature
This study predicts that continued night-time warming owing to anthropogenic climate change will promote more intense, longer-lasting and larger fires.Read More →

State of the Climate: National Climate Report 2021

January 2022
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
This online resource compiles national climate data for the year 2021. Read More →

The effect of rainfall changes on economic production

January 2022
Maximilian Kotz, Anders Levermann, & Leonie Wenz
Nature
This study assesses the distribution of rainfall at multiple timescales and the effects on different sectors in order to uncover channels through which climatic conditions can affect the economy.Read More →

Extreme heat and its association with social disparities in the risk of spontaneous preterm birth

December 2021
Lara Cushing, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Alan Hubbard
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
This study tests the hypotheses that acute exposure to extreme heat is associated with higher risk of live spontaneous preterm birth and that risks are higher among people of color. Read More →

Postnatal exposure to ambient temperature and rapid weight gain among infants delivered at term gestations: a population-based cohort study

December 2021
Carlos Francisco Dionicio López, Neora Alterman, Ronit Calderon-Margalit, Michael Hauzer, Itai Kloog, Raanan Raz
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
This study examines whether exposure to high ambient temperatures during infancy is associated with rapid infant weight gain in Israel.Read More →

Increased labor losses and decreased adaptation potential in a warmer world

December 2021
Luke A. Parsons, Drew Shindell, Michelle Tigchelaar, Yuqiang Zhang, & June T. Spector
Nature Communications
This study examines the effect of global warming on labor and potential adaptations.Read More →

Arctic Report Card 2021: Rapid and pronounced warming continues to drive the evolution of the Arctic environment

December 2021
Twila A. Moon, Matthew L. Druckenmiller, Richard L. Thoman
NOAA
This report provides environmental information on the current state of different components of the Arctic environmental system relative to historical records.Read More →

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