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UK climate heat health risks May and June 2026

July 2026
Dr Clair Barnes, Dr Ben Clarke, Dr Claire Bergin, Dr Mark McCarthy, Dr Fraser Lott, Dr Mariam Zachariah, Dr Theodore Keeping, Dr Garyfallos Konstantinoudis, Archie Rayner, Dr Malcolm Mistry, Professor Antonio Gasparrini, and Professor Friederike Otto.
Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment
In this real time study, the authors use historical records and models to show the impact of heatwaves on mortality in the 2026 heatwaves in England and Wales, finding 42% of deaths were attributable to human-induced warming.Read More →

Detection and attribution of the role of anthropogenic climate change in industrial-era retreat of Pine Island Glacier

June 2026
Alexander T. Bradley, David T. Bett, C. Rosie Williams, Robert J. Arthern, Paul R. Holland, James Byrne, Tamsin L. Edwards, and Mira Adhikari
European Geosciences Union - The Cryosphere
This peer-reviewed study attempts to quantify the role of anthropogenic climate change in the thinning of the Pine Island Glacier in the West Antarctic, finding that it contributed about 18% to the retreat of the glacier.Read More →

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 →

Shifting Flood Regimes in Arctic Basins under Climate Change

June 2026
Shanshan Hu, Zhiying Wang, Tingting Wang, Yifei Hua, Wenbin Liu
Journal of Hydrology
This peer-reviewed article investigates shifting flood regimes across 13 major Arctic river basins, demonstrating how global warming intensifies the hydrological cycle to cause more frequent flooding and exacerbate regional ecosystem erosion.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 →

Climate Change and Vertical Thermal Stratification of the Water Column in the Mediterranean Sea: Implications for Marine Aquaculture

June 2026
Marina Ortiz-Navarro, Pablo Sanchez-Jerez, Javier Atalah, J. David Ballester-Berman, Aitor Forcada, Kilian Toledo-Guedes
Journal of Environmental Management
This peer-reviewed article analyzes marine thermal stratification across 12 Mediterranean aquaculture facilities, detailing how climate-driven ocean warming impacts marine ecosystems and threatens regional fish farming.Read More →

An Attribution Study of the Impactful Extreme Heat across Asia in 2024

May 2026
Carolina Pereira Marghidan, Mariam Zachariah, Ben Clarke, Friederike E.L. Otto, Maja Vahlberg, Roop Singh, Sayanti Sengupta, Izidine Pinto, Julie Arrighi, Luis Rodriguez, Rana el Hajj, Dorothy Heinrich, Malcolm Mistry
Weather and Climate Extremes
This peer-reviewed article quantifies how climate change drastically increased the intensity and probability of widespread extreme heat waves across various parts of Asia in 2024, using climate model simulations and observational datasets.Read More →