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Climate Change Made the Extreme 2-Day Rainfall Event Associated with Flooding in Middleton, Ireland More Likely and More Intense

February 2024
Ben Clarke, Peter Thorne, Ciara Ryan, Mariam Zachariah, Conor Murphy, Gerard McCarthy, Paul O'Connor, Emannuel O. Eresanya, Niamh Cahill, Barry Coonan
Worldwide Weather Attribution
This real-time event attribution study examines extreme flooding in County Cork, Ireland, and finds that climate change since the industrial revolution has more than doubled the likelihood of such flooding events.Read More →

Offshoring Emissions Through Used Vehicle Exports

February 2024
Saul Justin Newman, Kayla Schulte, Micol Matilde Morellini, Charles Rahal, Douglas R. Leasure
Nature Climate Change
In this peer-reviewed study, the authors estimate the emissions-shifting impact of used vehicle exports from Great Britain between 2005 and 2021. They conclude that exported vehicles generate significantly more CO2 per kilometer.Read More →

Critical Transitions in the Amazon Forest System

February 2024
Bernardo M. Flores, Encarni Montoya, Boris Sakschewski, Nathália Nascimento, Arie Staal, Richard A. Betts, Carolina Levis, David M. Lapola, Adriane Esquível-Muelbert, Catarina Jakovac, Carlos A. Nobre, Rafael S. Oliveira, Laura S. Borma, Da Nian, Niklas Boers, Susanna B. Hecht, Hans ter Steege, Julia Arieira, Isabella L. Lucas, Erika Berenguer, José A. Marengo, Luciana V. Gatti, Caio R. C. Mattos, Marina Hirota
Nature
This peer-reviewed study assesses five major drivers of water stress on Amazonian forests, and projects that, by 2050, 10% to 47% of Amazonian forests may face unexpected ecosystem transitions.Read More →

State of the World’s Migratory Species

February 2024
Frances Davis, Andrew Szopa-Comley, Sarah Rouse, Aude Caromel, Andy Arnell, Saloni Basrur, Nina Bhola, Holly Brooks, Giulia Costa-Domingo, Cleo Cunningham, Katie Hunter, Matt Kaplan, Abigail Sheppard, Kelly Malsch
United Nations Environment Programme
This report, the first ever State of the World’s Migratory Species, reveals that the survival of more than 25% of migratory species is threatened by climate change.Read More →

Exploring Spatial Heterogeneity in Synergistic Effects of Compound Climate Hazards: Extreme Heat and Wildfire Smoke on Cardiorespiratory Hospitalizations in California

February 2024
Chen Chen, Laura Schwarz, Noam Rosenthal, Miriam E. Marlier, Tarik Benmarhnia
Science Advances
In this peer-reviewed study, the authors used high-resolution satellite and monitoring data to quantify the way that compound exposures to extreme heat and wildfire smoke in California (2006–2019) varied between ZIP codes.Read More →

Ubiquitous Acceleration in Greenland Ice Sheet Calving From 1985 to 2022

January 2024
Chad A. Greene, Alex S. Gardner, Michael Wood, Joshua K. Cuzzone
Nature
This peer-reviewed study that, since 1985, the Greenland Ice Sheet has lost 5,091 ± 72 km2 of area, and that current consensus estimates of ice-sheet mass balance have underestimated recent mass loss from Greenland by as much as 20%.Read More →

African Rice Cultivation Linked to Rising Methane

January 2024
Zichong Chen, Nicholas Balasus, Haipeng Lin, Hannah Nesser, Daniel J. Jacob
Nature Climate Change
In this peer-reviewed article, the authors assess methane emissions from rapidly increasing rice cultivation in Africa. The authors estimate that this source accounts for 7% of the current global rise in methane can be attributed to this source.Read More →