Water is a critical resource, but ensuring its availability faces challenges from climate
extremes and human intervention. In this Review, we evaluate the current and historical …

Drought is one of the most difficult natural hazards to quantify and is divided into categories
(meteorological, agricultural, ecological and hydrological), which makes assessing recent …

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments are the trusted source of
scientific evidence for climate negotiations taking place under the United Nations …

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments are the trusted source of
scientific evidence for climate negotiations taking place under the United Nations …

Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Background: As atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise, temperature
and humidity will increase further, causing potentially dire increases in human heat stress …

Our current 1.1 C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

As the climate warms, the consequent moistening of the atmosphere increases extreme
precipitation. Precipitation variability should also increase, producing larger wet-dry swings …

Distortion of the water cycle, particularly of its extremes (droughts and pluvials), will be
among the most conspicuous consequences of climate change. Here we applied a novel …

Marine cloud brightening (MCB) is the deliberate injection of aerosol particles into shallow
marine clouds to increase their reflection of solar radiation and reduce the amount of energy …