Wildfire and degradation accelerate northern peatland carbon release
This peer-reviewed study examines the net carbon sink and methan emissions of northern peatlands, and assess the impact of climate change and wildfires on this function.Read More →
Wildfire and degradation accelerate northern peatland carbon release
This peer-reviewed study uses datasets from natural, degraded, and restored northern peatlands to show that increased wildfire incidence caused by human activity reduces the carbon sink provided by peatlands.Read More →
Unprecedented Winter Rainfall Initiates Large Snow Avalanche and Mass Movement Cycle in New Zealand’s Southern Alps/Kā Tiritiri o te Moana
This peer-reviewed study documents an extreme hazard sequence triggered by a record-breaking winter rainstorm in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. This storm has implications for anticipated hazard characteristics under future climate scenarios. Read More →
Heat Waves Can Cause Hypoxia in Shallow Lakes
This peer-reviewed study examines the factors that might induce hypoxia in a shallow lake during a heat wave, and suggests that the slackening of terrestrial wind speeds in response to climate change will lead to more frequent occurrences of hypoxia.Read More →
A global transition to flash droughts under climate change
This peer-reviewed study shows that drought intensification rates have sped up over the past 64 years, and that this pattern of "flash droughts" is projected to expand to most land areas, with larger increases under higher-emission scenarios.Read More →
CO2 fertilization effect may balance climate change impacts on oil palm cultivation
This study examines the impact of CO2 fertilization on palm oil yields, and finds that under all climate scenarios yields are anticipated to increase. This contradicts earlier studies, which did not consider positive effects of CO2 fertilization.Read More →
Increased U.S. Coastal Hurricane Risk under Climate Change
This peer-reviewed study creates future projections of hurricane activity (1980–2100), downscaled from multiple climate models using a synthetic hurricane model, that show an enhanced hurricane frequency for the Gulf and lower East coast regions.Read More →
Future extreme high-temperature risk in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration of China based on a regional climate model coupled with urban parameterization scheme
This peer-reviewed study combines climate models, population models, and models of building energy and location to predict the effect of future intense heat events on populations of the Chinese cities of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei.Read More →
Excess methane emissions from shallow water platforms elevate the carbon intensity of US Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production
This peer-reviewed study presents an approach to calculating the carbon intensity of oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, finding that government inventories underestimate the amount of methane produced by these operations.Read More →
Widespread natural methane and oil leakage from sub-marine Arctic reservoirs
This peer-reviewed study presents empirical observations of hitherto undocumented, widespread and extensive methane and oil release from geological reservoirs to the Arctic Ocean.Read More →