How does climate change cause extinction?
This study systematically reviewed the proximate causes of climate-change related extinctions and their empirical support. Read More →
Tackling Climate Change Through Livestock – A global assessment of emissions and mitigation opportunities
This report provides a snapshot of the current state of FAO’s assessment work on livestock’s contribution to climate change. It draws on three technical reports addressing emissions from dairy cattle, ruminants and monogastrics.Read More →
IPCC AR5 WGI Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis
This report considers new evidence of climate change based on many independent scientific analyses from observations of the climate system, paleoclimate archives, theoretical studies of climate processes and simulations using climate models. Read More →
Patterns of change: whose fingerprint is seen in global warming?
This letter communicates the physical science basis of climate change attribution research, and discusses the statistical methods applied to explore the extent to which different possible causes can be used to explain the recent climate records.Read More →
Cusk (Brosme brosme) and Climate Change: Assessing the Threat to a Candidate Marine Fish Species Under the US Endangered Species Act
This study examines changes in distribution and abundance of a number of marine fish in the Northwest Atlantic that have been linked to climate variability and change, suggesting that both fishing and climate may affect the status of cusk. Read More →
Upward expansion of fire-adapted grasses along a warming tropical elevation gradient
This study study documents an upward expansion of fire‐adapted grasses at high elevations in the tropics as an important threat that seems to be compounded by warming trends.Read More →
A Synthesis of Carbon in International Trade
This paper synthesizes carbon transfer through emissions embodied in goods and services that are produced in one country but consumed in others, as well as carbon physically present in fossil fuels and other sources. Read More →
The Absence of a Role of Climate Change in the 2011 Thailand Floods
Using a variety of methodologies, six extreme events of the previous year are explained from a climate perspective.Read More →
Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change
This study uses a hybrid model to forecast the climate-driven spatio-temporal dynamics of 150 high-mountain plant species across the European Alps. Read More →
Chinese Drought, Bread and the Arab Spring
Potential crop failure due to drought led China to buy wheat on the international market and contributed to a doubling of global wheat prices, resulting in price spikes with economic impacts in Egypt, where bread prices tripled. Read More →