Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon

JS Albert, AC Carnaval, SGA Flantua, LG Lohmann… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Amazonian environments are being degraded by modern industrial and agricultural
activities at a pace far above anything previously known, imperiling its vast biodiversity …

[HTML][HTML] State of wildfires 2023–2024

MW Jones, DI Kelley, CA Burton… - Earth System …, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
Climate change contributes to the increased frequency and intensity of wildfires globally,
with significant impacts on society and the environment. However, our understanding of the …

Global concurrent climate extremes exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change

S Zhou, B Yu, Y Zhang - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Increases in concurrent climate extremes in different parts of the world threaten the
ecosystem and our society. However, spatial patterns of these extremes and their past and …

Climate change impacts on planned supply–demand match in global wind and solar energy systems

L Liu, G He, M Wu, G Liu, H Zhang, Y Chen, J Shen… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change modulates both energy demand and wind and solar energy supply but a
globally synthetic analysis of supply–demand match (SDM) is lacking. Here, we use 12 state …

Exacerbated summer European warming not captured by climate models neglecting long-term aerosol changes

DL Schumacher, J Singh, M Hauser… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
In much of western-central Europe, summer temperatures have surged three times faster
than the global mean warming since 1980, yet this is not captured by most climate model …

Human influence on the climate system (Chapter 3)

V Eyring, NP Gillett, KM Achuta Rao, R Barimalala… - 2021 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
The AR5 concluded that human influence on the climate system is clear, evident from
increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, positive radiative forcing …

An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas

S Gao, E Liang, R Liu, F Babst, JJ Camarero… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Climatic warming alters the onset, duration and cessation of the vegetative season. While
previous studies have shown a tight link between thermal conditions and leaf phenology …

Global increase in wildfire potential from compound fire weather and drought

D Richardson, AS Black, D Irving, RJ Matear… - NPJ climate and …, 2022 - nature.com
Wildfire can cause significant adverse impacts to society and the environment. Weather and
climate play an important role in modulating wildfire activity. We explore the joint occurrence …

Cumulative risk of future bleaching for the world's coral reefs

C Mellin, S Brown, N Cantin, E Klein-Salas… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Spatial and temporal patterns of future coral bleaching are uncertain, hampering global
conservation efforts to protect coral reefs against climate change. Our analysis of daily …

Compounding effects in flood drivers challenge estimates of extreme river floods

S Jiang, L Tarasova, G Yu, J Zscheischler - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Estimating river flood risks under climate change is challenging, largely due to the
interacting and combined influences of various flood-generating drivers. However, a more …