Climate Attribution

Oceanic Heat Sources Exacerbate Continental Heatwaves

June 2026
Gang Wang, Qiang Zhang, Louise J. Slater, R. Iestyn Woolway, Fubao Sun, Ilan Noy, Lixiao Zhang, Vijay P. Singh, Chong-Yu Xu, Jianfeng Li, Zhifeng Yang
One Earth
This peer-reviewed article analyzes landfalling oceanic heatwaves, revealing their role in driving continental heatwaves, and quantifies the influence of anthropogenic climate change on these extreme marine events.Read More →

Approaches, challenges and applications of climate change impact attribution

June 2026
Sabine Undorf, Asya Dimitrova, Luke J. Harrington, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Aglaé Jézéquel, Joyce Kimutai, Y. T. Eunice Lo, Matthias Mengel, Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Rosa Pietroiusti, Izidine Pinto, Andrew Schurer, Paolo Scussolini, Sebastian Sippel, Dáithí Stone, Rupert Stuart-Smith, Lukas Gudmundsson, Veronika Huber, Felipe J. Colón-González, Simon Dellicour, Diana Erazo, Erich Fischer, Katja Frieler, Christoph Gornott, Ed Hawkins, Petra Holden, Gerbrand Koren, Seppe Lampe, Dann Mitchell, Lisa Murken, Mark New, Albert Nkwasa, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Michael Wehner & Wim Thiery
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
This review discusses current approaches to climate change impact attribution, their uses for society, and policy implications.Read More →

Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change

September 2025
Colin J. Carlson, Dann Mitchell, Rory Gibb, Rupert F. Stuart-Smith, Tamma Carleton, Torre E. Lavelle, Catherine A. Lippi, Megan Lukas-Sithole, Michelle A. North, Sadie J. Ryan, Dorcas Stella Shumba, Matthew Chersich, Mark New & Christopher H. Trisos
Nature Climate Change
This report analyzes existing health attribution studies, finding that end-to-end studies are lacking, and encouraging greater investment in source and impact attribution studies for use in legal action, and additional focus on the global south.Read More →

Global assessment of historical changes in extreme fire weather: Insight from CMIP6 ensembles and implications for probabilistic attribution to global warming

September 2025
Zhongwei Liu, Jonathan M. Eden, Bastien Dieppois, Igor Drobyshev, Folmer Krikken, Matthew Blackett
Global and Planetary Change
This peer-reviewed study developed a framework to examine how climate change may influence wildfire events using a multi-model analysis, which confirms an increase in probability and duration in wildfires due to global temperature anomalies.Read More →

Record-Breaking 2023 Marine Heatwaves

July 2025
Tianyun Dong et al.
Science
This study reports on record-breaking marine heat waves in 2023, which depart from historic averages in duration, extent, and intensity.Read More →