Scientists See Fingerprints of Climate Change All Over California’s Wildfires
This article discusses how climate change is influenced the jet stream that drives California's wildfires.Read More →
The Carbon Loophole in Climate Policy: Quantifying the Embodied Carbon in Traded Products
This report provides an analysis of the carbon loophole at the global level, surveying global trends and delving into the countries and sectors most implicated in the carbon loophole.Read More →
Wildfires Rage Across Europe as Countries Battle Intense Heat Wave
This article describes the heatwave in Europe in summer 2018, and its devastating effects as wildfires have scorched large swaths of land in dozens of countries.Read More →
Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering
This study shows that microclimatic heterogeneity has strongly buffered species against regional extirpations linked to recent climate change.Read More →
Human influence on the seasonal cycle of tropospheric temperature
The results of this study suggest that attribution studies with the seasonal cycle of tropospheric temperature provide powerful and novel evidence for a statistically significant human effect on Earth’s climate.Read More →
Heat Records Fall in the Arctic as Fires Erupt in Sweden and Siberia
This article describes the devastating wildfires in Scandinavia and Siberia in summer 2018 due to an unprecedented heatwave that swept across the Arctic Circle.Read More →
How big meat and dairy are heating up the planet
This study quantifies emissions from 35 of the world's largest meat and dairy companies and scrutinizes their climate plans.Read More →
Likelihood of Cape Town water crisis tripled by climate change
In this update posted to World Weather Attribution, scientists shared findings that climate change has significantly increased the likelihood of a "day zero" drought in Cape Town.Read More →
Red-hot Planet: All-time heat Records Have Been Set All Over the World During the Past Week
This article describes the all-time record-setting heat wave in the Northern Hemisphere in summer 2018 and cautions that these heat records are consistent with the extremes scientists expect to see in a warming world. Read More →
How to include the impact of climate change in the extinction risk assessment of policy plant species?
This study presents an approach in which the effect of climate change on plant species spatial distribution is used to prioritize conservation within IUCN categories.Read More →