Climate Attribution

Psychological Impacts of Climate Change on US Youth

February 2025
Ans Vercammen, Britt Wray, Yoshika S. Crider, Emma L. Lawrance
PNAS
This study looks at psychological responses to climate change impacts in youths and finds that climate-related impacts are linked to increased anxiety and other psychological impacts.Read More →

Trends of Heat-Related Deaths in the US, 1999-2023

August 2024
Jeffrey T. Howard, Nicole Androne, Karl C. Alcover
JAMA
This peer-reviewed study investigated the trends in heat-related mortality in the US from 1999-2023, and found mortality rates increased in that time period.Read More →

Wildfire Smoke Exposure and Mortality Burden in the US Under Future Climate Change

March 2024
Minghao Qiu, Jessica Li, Carlos F. Gould, Renzhi Jing, Makoto Kelp, Marissa L. Childs, Jeff Wen, Yuanyu Xie, Meiyun Lin, Mathew V. Kiang, Sam Heft-Neal, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Marshall Burke
EarthArXiv (preprint)
This study projects increased mortality in the U.S. due to exposure to PM2.5 from wildfire smoke under future climate change scenarios, and projects changes in smoke PM2.5 concentrations and their health impacts.Read More →

Exploring Spatial Heterogeneity in Synergistic Effects of Compound Climate Hazards: Extreme Heat and Wildfire Smoke on Cardiorespiratory Hospitalizations in California

February 2024
Chen Chen, Laura Schwarz, Noam Rosenthal, Miriam E. Marlier, Tarik Benmarhnia
Science Advances
In this peer-reviewed study, the authors used high-resolution satellite and monitoring data to quantify the way that compound exposures to extreme heat and wildfire smoke in California (2006–2019) varied between ZIP codes.Read More →

Mapping methane reduction potential of tidal wetland restoration in the United States

October 2023
James R. Holmquist, Meagan Eagle, Rebecca Lee Molinari, Sydney K. Nick, Liana C. Stachowicz, Kevin D. Kroeger
Nature Communications Earth & Environment
This peer-reviewed study provides a new assessment of coastal methane reduction opportunities in the U.S., and identifies a map of 1,796 parcels with the potential for tidal reconnection that can reduce methane emissions from coastal wetlands.Read More →

Unlock the Endangered Species Act to address GHG emissions

August 2023
Steven C. Amstrup, Cecilia M. Bitz
Science
This peer-reviewed policy forum piece quantifies the relationship between anthropogenic GHG emissions and polar bear population levels, and discusses the impact of this finding on their endangered species status in the United States.Read More →

Decreasing fire season precipitation increased recent western U.S. forest wildfire activity

August 2023
Zachary Holden, Alan Swanson, Charles Luce, W. Jolly, Marco Maneta, Jared Oyler, Dyer Warren, Russell Parsons, and David Affleck
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
This peer-reviewed study uses climate modeling and statistical analysis of precipitation trends from 1979 to 2015 in the western United States to show that declines in summer precipitation contributed to the area of land burned by wildfires.Read More →