United States Archives - Page 7 of 15

Plague risk in the western United States over seven decades of environmental change

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Colin J. Carlson, Sarah N. Bevins, and Boris V. Schmid

Publisher:Global Change Biology

This study finds that due to the changing climate, rodent communities at high elevations have become more conducive to the establishment of plague reservoirs and that spillover risk to humans at mid-elevations has increased as well.Read More →

Wildfire response to changing daily temperature extremes in California’s Sierra Nevada

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Aurora A. Gutierrez, Stijn Hantson, Baird Langenbrunner, Bin Chen, Yufang Jin, Michael L. Goulden, and James T. Randerson

Publisher:ScienceAdvances

This study quantifies the sensitivity of wildfire occurrence and burned area in the Sierra Nevada to daily meteorological variables during 2001–2020.Read More →

Forest fires and climate-induced tree range shifts in the western US

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Avery P. Hill & Christopher B. Field

Publisher:Nature Communications

This study tests the sensitivity of tree range shifts to wildfire occurrence.Read More →

Sequential Landfall of Tropical Cyclones in the United States: From Historical Records to Climate Projections

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Dazhi Xi, Ning Lin

Publisher:Geophysical Research Letters

This study examines sequential landfalling tropical cyclones along U.S. East and Gulf Coasts.Read More →

Majority of US urban natural gas emissions unaccounted for in inventories

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Maryann R. Sargent, Cody Floerchinger, Kathryn McKain, John Budney, Elaine W. Gottlieb, Lucy R. Hutyra, Joseph Rudek, and Steven C. Wofsy

Publisher:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

This study concludes that consumption-driven methane losses, such as in transmission or end-use, may be a large component of emissions that is missing from inventories.Read More →

Increasing large wildfires over the western United States linked to diminishing sea ice in the Arctic

Published:October 2021

Author(s):Yufei Zou, Philip J. Rasch, Hailong Wang, Zuowei Xie, & Rudong Zhang

Publisher:Nature Communications

This study shows that increasing large wildfires during autumn over the western U.S. are fueled by more fire-favorable weather associated with declines in Arctic sea ice. Arctic sea iceRead More →

Assessment of Historic and Future Trends of Extreme Weather in Texas, 1900-2036

Published:October 2021

Author(s):John Nielsen-Gammon, Sara Holman, Austin Buley, Savannah Jorgensen

Publisher:Texas A&M University Office of the Texas State Climatologist

This report analyzes historic observations of temperature, precipitation, and extreme weather in Texas and identifies ongoing and likely future trends out to the year 2036.Read More →

The Production Gap: Governments’ planned fossil fuel production remains dangerously out of sync with Paris Agreement limits

Published:October 2021

Author(s):Stockholm Environment Institute, UN Environmental Program, International Institute for Sustainable Development, ODI, E3G

Publisher:Stockholm Environment Institute, UN Environmental Program, International Institute for Sustainable Development, ODI, E3G

This report tracks the discrepancy between governments’ planned fossil fuel production and global levels consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C or 2°C.Read More →

The New Coal: Plastics and Climate Change

Published:October 2021

Author(s):Jim Vallette

Publisher:Beyond Plastics

This report provides a comprehensive account of the United States plastics industry’s contributions to the climate crisis.Read More →

Dangerous Air: As California burns, America breathes toxic smoke

Published:September 2021

Author(s):Alison Saldanha, Farida Jhabvala Romero, Caleigh Wells, and Aaron Glantz

Publisher:KCRW

An analysis of federal satellite imagery by NPR’s California Newsroom and Stanford University’s Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab found a startling increase in the number of days people are breathing wildfire smoke.Read More →