West Africa is known to be particularly vulnerable to climate change due to high climate
variability, high reliance on rain-fed agriculture, and limited economic and institutional …

Abstract Agriculture in West Africa faces the challenge of meeting the rising demand for food
as national incomes and populations increase while production becomes more uncertain …

Extreme events such as heat waves are among the most challenging aspects of climate
change for societies. We show that climate models consistently project increases in …

Summer fires frequently rage across Mediterranean Europe, often intensified by high
temperatures and droughts. According to the state-of-the-art regional fire risk projections, in …

The relation between climate change and its potential effects on the stability of slopes
remains an open issue. For rainfall induced landslides, the point consists in determining the …

Forest fires are a serious environmental hazard in southern Europe. Quantitative
assessment of recent trends in fire statistics is important for assessing the possible shifts …

In 2015, more than 200,000 saiga antelopes died in 3 weeks in central Kazakhstan. The
proximate cause of death is confirmed as hemorrhagic septicemia caused by the bacterium …

Climate change constitutes a major threat for all the Mediterranean countries due to the
combination of large precipitation reductions and temperature increases and the higher …

Identifying climate change hotspot regions is critical for planning effective mitigation and
adaptation activities. We use standard Euclidean distance (SED) to calculate integrated …

Concurrent precipitation and temperature extremes exert amplified impacts on the
ecosystems and human society; however, they have not been well documented over the …