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The role of human-induced climate change in heavy rainfall events such as the one associated with Typhoon Hagibis

Published:May 2022

Author(s):Sihan Li & Friederike E. L. Otto

Publisher:Climatic Change

This study estimates that roughly $4 billion of the damages due to the extreme heavy rainfall associated with Typhoon Hagibis are due to human-induced climate change.Read More →

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

Published:May 2022

Author(s):Nikolaos Christidis, Yasuyuki Aono, and Peter A Stott

Publisher:Environmental Research Letters

This study assesses the impact of climate change on cherry blossom flowering. Read More →

The heatwave in North India and Pakistan in April-May 2022

Published:May 2022

Author(s):Nikolaos Christidis

Publisher:Met Office

This study finds that the chances of a record-breaking heatwave in north-west India and Pakistan has been made over 100 times more likely because of climate change.Read More →

Mt. Everest’s highest glacier is a sentinel for accelerating ice loss

Published:February 2022

Author(s):Mariusz Potocki, Paul Andrew Mayewski, Tom Matthews, L. Baker Perry, Margit Schwikowski, Alexander M. Tait, Elena Korotkikh, Heather Clifford, Shichang Kang, Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa, Praveen Kumar Singh, Inka Koch, & Sean Birkel

Publisher:NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science

This study shows the significant and increasing role that melting and sublimation have on the mass loss of Mt. Everest’s highest glacier.Read More →

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

Published:December 2021

Author(s):Carlos Francisco Dionicio López, Neora Alterman, Ronit Calderon-Margalit, Michael Hauzer, Itai Kloog, Raanan Raz

Publisher: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 →

Accelerated mass loss of Himalayan glaciers since the Little Ice Age

Published:December 2021

Author(s):Ethan Lee, Jonathan L. Carrivick, Duncan J. Quincey, Simon J. Cook, William H. M. James & Lee E. Brown

Publisher:Scientific Reports

This study shows a ten-fold acceleration in Himalayan glacier ice loss.Read More →

Linking Arctic variability and change with extreme winter weather in the United States

Published:September 2021

Author(s):Judah Cohen, Laurie Agel, Mathew Barlow, Chaim I. Garfinkel, and Ian White

Publisher:Science

This study links Artic warming with periods of extreme cold across parts of Asia and North America.Read More →

Air Quality Life Index Annual Update

Published:September 2021

Author(s):Ken Lee and Michael Greenstone

Publisher:Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago

Assessing the health impacts of air pollution, with a section on how climate change is exacerbating air pollution.Read More →

Shifts in global bat diversity suggest a possible role of climate change in the emergence of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2

Published:January 2021

Author(s):Robert M. Beyer, Andrea Manica & Camilo Mora

Publisher:Science of the Total Environment

The number of coronaviruses in an area is strongly correlated with local bat species richness, which in turn is affected by climatic conditions. Climate change may have played a key role in the evolution or transmission of the two SARS CoVs.Read More →

WMO Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970–2019)

Published:January 2021

Author(s):World Meteorological Organization

Publisher:World Meteorological Organization

An overview of impacts from weather, climate, and water extremes globally from 1970 to 2019, with a section on climate change attribution.Read More →