Climate change attribution and legal contexts: evidence and the role of storylines
This article assesses the storyline approach to attribution and argues that the storyline approach aligns well with the concept of legal evidence. Read More →
Impact of plastic film mulching on global warming in entire chemical and organic cropping systems: Life cycle assessment
This study investigates the influence of plastic film mulching on greenhouse gas fluxes in the cropping system.Read More →
Anthropogenic climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth
An econometric model indicates that anthropogenic climate change has reduced global agricultural total factor productivity by about 21% since 1961.Read More →
Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change
The fingerprint of anthropogenic climate change is apparent in river flow and hydrological extremes at the global scale.Read More →
Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions
In 2015, food-system emissions amounted to 18 Gt CO2 equivalent per year globally, representing 34% of total GHG emissions. Read More →
Heat Waves, Climate Change, and Economic Output
Using a global dataset spanning 1979–2016, the authors show agricultural losses from past heat waves are up to an order of magnitude larger than suggested by standard approaches.Read More →
An Initialized Attribution Method for Extreme Events on Subseasonal to Seasonal Time Scales
This paper describes a method to attribute extreme weather and climate events to observed increases in atmospheric CO2 using an initialized subseasonal to seasonal coupled global climate prediction system.Read More →
Earth’s Ice Imbalance
Earth lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017, and the rate of ice loss has risen by 57 % since the 1990s.Read More →
Effect of Extreme Climate Events on Lake Ecosystems
Extreme climatic events, including heatwaves, storms, extreme calm periods, sudden and intense rainfall, and droughts, have the potential to result in physical, chemical, and biological changes within lakes.Read More →
World Heritage forests: Carbon sinks under pressure
This study finds that ten World Heritage forests were net carbon sources between 2001 and 2020 due to anthropogenic stressors, including land use and climate change.Read More →