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NOAA Drought Task Force Report on the 2020–2021 Southwestern U.S. Drought

September 2021
NOAA Drought Task Force IV
NOAA
This report analyses the causes of the 2020–21 U.S. Southwest drought.Read More →

Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gas, and Traffic Externality Benefits and Costs of Shifting Private Vehicle Travel to Ridesourcing Services

September 2021
Jacob W. Ward, Jeremy J. Michalek, and Constantine Samaras
Environmental Science and Technology
This study finds that replacing private vehicles with on-demand ridesourcing services reduces externalities from conventional air pollution but increases externalities from GHGs.Read More →

Anthropogenic climate change has altered lake state in the Sierra Nevada (California, USA)

September 2021
Laura C. Streib, Jeffery R. Stone, Eva C. Lyon, Hung H. Quang, Kevin M. Yeager, Susan R. H. Zimmerman, Michael M. McGlue
Global Change Biology
This study illustrates the profound influence of anthropogenic climate warming on high-elevation lakes and the ecosystem services they provide in the Sierra Nevada.Read More →

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

September 2021
Judah Cohen, Laurie Agel, Mathew Barlow, Chaim I. Garfinkel, and Ian White
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

September 2021
Ken Lee and Michael Greenstone
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 →

Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States

September 2021
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Protection Agency
This reports measures the ways in which socially vulnerable populations may be disproportionately exposed to the highest impacts of climate change.Read More →

Path of Toxic Pollution: How Making “Forever Chemicals” for Food Packaging Threatens People and the Climate

September 2021
Erika Schreder and Beth Kemler
Toxic-Free Future
This report assesses the greenhouse gas emissions and public health impacts from one food packaging manufacturer.Read More →

Enhanced Rare Earth Element Mobilization in a Mountain Watershed of the Colorado Mineral Belt with Concomitant Detection in Aquatic Biota: Increasing Climate Change-Driven Degradation to Water Quality

August 2021
Garrett P. Rue and Diane M. McKnight
Environmental Science and Technology
This study reports on climate change-driven water quality impacts in the Snake River watershed.Read More →

Climate change attribution and legal contexts: evidence and the role of storylines

August 2021
Elisabeth A. Lloyd & Theodore G. Shepherd
Climatic Change
This article assesses the storyline approach to attribution and argues that the storyline approach aligns well with the concept of legal evidence. Read More →

Extreme Heat: The Economic and Social Consequences for the United States

August 2021
Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center
Atlantic Council
This report quantifies the impacts of heat under current and future conditions.Read More →

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